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Followers
by Megan Angelo
Orla, Floss and Marlow navigate fame, celebrity and love, more than thirty years apart from each other.
In the late twentyteens Orla, a blogger at a Buzzfeed like website, hitches her star to Floss, an up and coming influencer. Together they ride the dizzying heights of American stardom, unaware of the imminent disaster called the Spill.
In the early twentyfifties, Marlow is a cast member on a sort of Truman Show, her life broadcast to the world 23/7. An imminent birth 'storyline' cooked up by the network sends her running in pursuit of the real life that's been hidden from her.
It's happened a couple of times this year that I've read 'adult' and 'children's' versions of almost the same idea. It happens often in publishing, of course, giving rise to the mini trends we see two or three times a year. As I was reading Followers, it reminded me of [bc:Heartstream|43151477|Heartstream|Tom Pollock|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1548917778l/43151477._SY75_.jpg|66937948]. Anyone who's read that book won't be surprised by the twist here.
Followers is very much its own book, though. Although I'm not always a fan of split time line stories, it worked really well here; we were able to see the effects of the Spill and the Fog long before we saw the actual events, and I realised very late in the story that there was a whole extra layer to the Spill that I hadn't noticed before. The Truman Show seemed almost laughable when it came out, but it's so plausible nowadays, just a step on from where we are anyway, and Megan does a fantastic job writing it.
This is a great read, and I loved the not really epilogue at the end. I'll be watching out for more from Megan.
In the late twentyteens Orla, a blogger at a Buzzfeed like website, hitches her star to Floss, an up and coming influencer. Together they ride the dizzying heights of American stardom, unaware of the imminent disaster called the Spill.
In the early twentyfifties, Marlow is a cast member on a sort of Truman Show, her life broadcast to the world 23/7. An imminent birth 'storyline' cooked up by the network sends her running in pursuit of the real life that's been hidden from her.
It's happened a couple of times this year that I've read 'adult' and 'children's' versions of almost the same idea. It happens often in publishing, of course, giving rise to the mini trends we see two or three times a year. As I was reading Followers, it reminded me of [bc:Heartstream|43151477|Heartstream|Tom Pollock|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1548917778l/43151477._SY75_.jpg|66937948]. Anyone who's read that book won't be surprised by the twist here.
Followers is very much its own book, though. Although I'm not always a fan of split time line stories, it worked really well here; we were able to see the effects of the Spill and the Fog long before we saw the actual events, and I realised very late in the story that there was a whole extra layer to the Spill that I hadn't noticed before. The Truman Show seemed almost laughable when it came out, but it's so plausible nowadays, just a step on from where we are anyway, and Megan does a fantastic job writing it.
This is a great read, and I loved the not really epilogue at the end. I'll be watching out for more from Megan.