Friend Request: The most addictive psychological thriller you'll read this year

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Louise knows that if the truth ever sees the light of day, her life, as she knows its, will be over. In her debut novel, Laura Marshall explores the after effects of one schoolgirl’s determination to get in with the in crowd – and whether we can ever really know another person.

I welcome being wrong or stumped but I also like being able to think/look back and see subtle clues that were there all along. Louise Williams doesn't just get a friend request on Facebook from someone she knew years ago and doesn't actually like, she gets a friend request from someone who died twenty-five years ago. Now though, I’d be grateful for marketing spam, and I long to go back to the mild tedium of a few minutes ago.What would life have been like if she'd made a different choice then, not just for her, but for everyone around her?

Here we go again - another episode of mean girls (which, in my humble opinion is really getting overdone lately). I have only read a few psychological thrillers, generally when you’ve recommended them and I’ve started to quite enjoy them. Sure, except this girl, ‘Maria Weston’ vanished on Prom night way back in 1989, and has been presumed dead.And now, with the proliferation of people living out their lives in the public arena, it has become almost impossible to hide. And now the two are often combined, so that bullying and stalking have become a common occurrence on social media. Alternating between 1989 (the last time Louise saw Maria) and 2016, this book slowly fills you in on events from the past as adult Louise reconnects with former friends and digs into exactly what happened so many years ago. In 1989, Maria transfers to Louise's school in the late senior years, and initially Louise finds her a refreshing change.

This book is gripping and addictive, because it keeps you guessing and trying to work out the various mysteries. Fortunately, the book uses a larger font and leading, and it was really not as long a book as its 370 some pages would indicate. It tackles issues in the forefront of today’s society; dealing with social media on Facebook and cyber-bullying.I find I can’t look at her for long, and my eyes roam around the kitchen, wanting something mundane to fix on, a break from this bewildering new reality. I just finished reading this book, and I'd like to add that the chapters in Italics were indeed confusing at first,but when Sam confesses everything to Louise, he mentions his wife (at the moment), Catherine.