FOLLOW ME: When Twitter Kills
LIKE.
SHARE. FOLLOW . . . DIE
How
can you resist such a killer tagline?
There’s a disturbance in Twitterverse and the person goes by the name @Apollyon. A faceless and seemingly harmless entity has gained notoriety when the “Following” count becomes a tally of victims. The elusive suspect becomes a viral
twitter sensation the police scramble to identify, but fail
miserably.
Enter Freddie Venton, the spunky but down on her luck
wannabe journalist who’s been waiting for the right break to come. The
opportunity presents itself when she reconnects (fortuitously) with an old
friend Nasreen Cudmore, now a police officer.
Using an underhanded tactic, Freddie gets to her first
crime scene and becomes involved in it when the police hires her as a
consultant because of her social media “expertise”.
While this is an entertaining read for its unique
plot, it’s hard to ignore how ridiculously inept the police are. And this hurts
the story quite a bit.
But there’s still a lot of things to like in this
story that it still stands out. The Freddie and Naseer side story gives the
right amount of drama, while the main story progresses at a thrilling pace.
Follow Me will appeal to thriller junkies who crave
for a clever and inventive murder mystery. ★★★★ 4/5
*Review copy provided by NetGalley
