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A review by liketheday
Followers by Megan Angelo
5.0
Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh. This book made me extraordinarily anxious, in the best way, such that although I wanted sleep I wasn't going to get any unless I finished this book at midnight instead. I love a book that swaps narrators and time periods, and the author did an amazing job of doling out details in each section that kept me guessing, confirmed my suspicions, and gave me new suspicions to worry about. Especially reading on a Kindle, it was so easy to be like, hey, this chapter's only nine minutes long, I can read this... oh, hey, the next chapter's only ten minutes long, I could do just one more... straight through until the end.
The story itself is so creepily possible, especially with the main characters being just about my age both actually (in the present-ish time period) and relatively (in the future time period) and thus everything seeming very relevant to me personally. I spent the first half of this year tapering off my social media usage, but was considering going back to it because pandemic and lack of communication with loved ones, but, you know, I could also just never pick up my phone again, that would be pretty okay actually, I'll talk to humans again someday.
Oh, and weirdest trigger warning I'll ever give, but it certainly gave me some feels I didn't want to feel -- at the very very end you will find that this book posits (without actually saying it explicitly) that a certain someone or at least a very very similar someone is still president in 2051 and I just... can't.
The story itself is so creepily possible, especially with the main characters being just about my age both actually (in the present-ish time period) and relatively (in the future time period) and thus everything seeming very relevant to me personally. I spent the first half of this year tapering off my social media usage, but was considering going back to it because pandemic and lack of communication with loved ones, but, you know, I could also just never pick up my phone again, that would be pretty okay actually, I'll talk to humans again someday.
Oh, and weirdest trigger warning I'll ever give, but it certainly gave me some feels I didn't want to feel -- at the very very end you will find that this book posits (without actually saying it explicitly) that a certain someone or at least a very very similar someone is still president in 2051 and I just... can't.