Ok this book is all about our obsession with influencers or social media stars who gain their fame through blogging on internet about their lives and the people who literally eat, sleep and drink up every word and photo. This new form of celebrity also brings keyboard warriors and stalkers who feel they own you and have them right to question every move e and choice you make and post hate and vile as well as love. After all isn’t this what they sign up for? For the GoMummys group their obsession/love of Violets blog takes a scary turn after age mysteriously disappears and closes down her accounts. What has happened and could her husband have done the unthinkable? The group are determined to find out. This book does not disappoint and openly addresses the beauty and the darkness of the internet.

2.5 stars rounded down

I was intrigued by the social media/mommy vlogger aspect of this book, but it ultimately didn't deliver. There was no suspense or tension to keep me hooked and I had trouble connecting with the main characters. I also had trouble keeping track of the large number of side characters who were unnecessary to the plot. I would have liked to see a few chapters narrated by Violet, as I feel the reader never gets to know her even though she is the main focus/obsession of the two narrators.

It was an enjoyable read. At first I needed some time to get into the story and the different characters' lives but then it was captivating. I wouldn't declare it a fun story as it has too many not so funny elements but definitely interesting and perfect "food" for some days. For obvious reasons I can't tell more - just give it a try!

Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for providing a copy!

Could not put it down! From the first pages, you're plunged into the worlds of complex characters with dark secrets. Throughout the entire story, the twists and turns keep you guessing and it isn't until the very end do you get the full picture. Violet is a social media queen, advocating for moms who do it all while battling postnatal depression. One morning, all her platforms are black, no Instagram, no YouTube, nothing, she disappears. Followers are confused and skeptical, worried, and alarmed. Some go to extreme lengths to solve the mystery of the missing influencer, while others are more involved with the disappearance than they're letting on. Unfollow Me highlights the harsh nature of the comparisons mothers make to the unrealistic images they consume online.

Thank you to Netgallery for providing a free digital copy in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.

A fast passed thriller that follows missing Vlogger Violet, and fans Yvonne and Lily. Shows how social media plays a large part in so many people's lives and what can happen. Plenty of little twists that connect each person. Chapters alternate between characters and so it is easy to follow.

Overall a fun quick read.

Very gripping. At timesI couldn't stop reading and literally lost count of time. So many unexpected twists. The ending felt a little messy but I wouldn't be able to think of something else to be honest.

Violet a popular online vlogger has disappeared without warning and some of her fans take it upon themselves to find out what has happened to her. I enjoyed the book but found a couple of things a bit unbelievable but this did not distract from the great writing and complex lives of the characters within the storyline. A good read.

4 twisted stars!

This one absolutely shocked me! I went into it expecting a cliche story but what I got was anything but. The story begins with two seemingly normal fans of Violet, a popular mommy vlogger. Yvonne and Lily, two dedicated fans, get a shock of a lifetime when Violet's social media accounts disappear without notice. Millions of fans were shocked, but these two have ties to Violet that I never saw coming.

This story could have easily been like every other thriller out there. Charlotte Duckworth did an amazing job telling the stories of these obsessed fans while keeping the mystery going juuuust long enough.

I did not want to put the book down! It won't be for everyone, but for those of us on the Internet daily, it's a huge dose of reality mixed with a few great thrills.

First many, many thanks to the publisher for giving me the opportunity to read a digital galley of this book before its publication date. I love reading books that incorporate social media and show the downsides of sharing so much personal information with strangers online.

The introduction of this book had me absolutely hooked! I loved everything about it and was very excited to read more. Lily’s first chapter was good...but then Yvonne’s chapter came along and I thought, “Oh, please, no...” Yep. Once again, another thriller with a completely amazing premise is mommy-jacked. For the love of God, why does this keep happening in just about every book I read?!?! I do not want to read mommy fiction or stories about characters that constantly wonder “OMG-when-am-I-ever-going-to-get-pregnant” when what I wanted to read was a suspenseful thriller.

I’m not going to go into the details of the story because there’s really nothing to say. There was zero suspense - just nonstop mommy and wannabe mommy gibberish.

I was so captivated by Charlotte Duckworth’s first book that I immediately read Unfollow Me. This book is about a mommy vlogger with a sizeable following who suddenly deletes her accounts. Her followers are convinced something is wrong. The book introduces you to many characters, all who are messed up and have strange motives.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for providing advance review copies to review. All opinions are my own.

Unfollow Me is a well-written, suspenseful, fun and sometimes sad read. I lived in the UK when I we first started our family, so the message conversations on the mummy boards made me laugh out loud because that is exactly the way I remember the boards: full of abbreviations, gossip, misunderstandings and quick judgements.
Charlotte Duckworth does a good job creating authentic and believable characters who live lives that we can relate to.
As the stories of Lily, Yvonne and Henry unfold, the suspense is maintained until the end, but the suspense is not so intense that the reader can't wait to find out. There's plenty going on in the lives of all the characters making this more than just a mystery.

I recommend this book to readers who enjoy real life stories with some suspense. I enjoyed it very much.

With thanks to Crooked Lane Books and Netgalley for the ARC.

This book blew my mind. I didn't expect to love it as much as I did. It quickly got my attention and it got to a point where I was unable to put the book down, I was so engrossed in the mystery. There were no characters to like in this book, but I disliked the ones I was supposed to and the mystery part of the story was handled really well.

This book made it worth to sign up on NetGalley. Really happy with this one.

I didn’t get it. I was waiting for this book to grab me or have a major twist or an explosive end. It didn’t happen. I wouldn’t class this book at a psychological thriller. I struggled with the characters throughout the story as there are so many that don’t really need to be there. I felt like I was reading this book for a year and couldn’t wait for it to end . Not for me .

Surprise, surprise, something juicy, tasty, deliciously witty, fresh from the oven deserves 4 stars and it’s time to be a generous grader because it’s a quite fantastic, entertaining, twisty page-turner about voluntarily letting your life play out in front of the prying, curious and controlling eyes book.

This book definitely passes all the tests with flying rainbow colors.
Great writing- CHECK

Intriguing characters- CHECK

Fast and unputdownable pacing-CHECK

Satisfying conclusion- CHECK

The plot: Violet Young is a vlogger, an influencer, starts her videos telling her experiences about postpartum depression and lately she started sharing her happy life including her beautiful house, amazing kids and handsome, rich, handsome husband ( too good to be true right, better than watch any kind of Real Housewives series) with her growing numbers of followers. Buy one night, she deletes all of her social media accounts and disappears out of nowhere, leaves her curious stalkers without proper explanation.

The book starts with a troller/stalker/ psychologically damaged admirer’s letter with those haunted words: “I know everything about you, Violet…”

As soon as I grab the book, flipping those pages faster than light speed (yes, I updated my brain settings and choose the fast reading option because the book was so intriguing and as I see two different women’s POVS, I really wanted to know what were their connection with Violet and family!), I realized both of characters in this book already lost their marbles. Every one of them shows stalker-ish, obsessive compulsive tendencies, suffering from anger-management problems which worked soooo finneee with me. Much craziness always increases my appetite.

SOOOO WHAT HAPPENED TO VIOLET BLAKE? I thought it could be like Laura Palmer case and they can hire a detective as charismatic as agent Cooper. But sorry friends, this book is not a crime thriller. It’s all about illusions, lies and perversions that social media accounts created in normal people’s lives and make them volunteered slaves of BIG BROTHER in exchange of some sponsors’ not necessarily lifesaver products.

Let’s move our lunatic three amigos/characters…

Lily, 27, single mother, introvert, showing symptoms of depression and alcoholism, feels lost after she cannot connect with Violet’s virtual world. She loses her own identity by emphasizing too much with virtual realities costs her not having a proper friendship or relationship with a man. Now she resumes her life consisted of too many lies. We should be sorry for her, right! Hmmm think it again!

And Yvonne, 40, married with a younger trainer, successful photographer, trying so hard to get pregnant and she finally succeeds. So we should be happy for her, right! Hmmm think it again!

And Henry, Violet’s handsome, devoted husband looks also exhausted and lost after his wife’s disappearance from social media. He had some kind of anger issues and last time the neighbors had seen his wife, an ambulance had been spotted in front of their house. Did he hurt his wife? Why his sister-in-law take care of the children? Why does he visit hospital? And finally what the hell happened to Violet?

I loved 3 different (crazy characters’) POVS and their final connection, all those revelations and of course somewhat twisty conclusion at Violet’s part. (Violet should be careful about who will she work with!!!!)

Pacing, writing, cumulation of crazy characters, surprises enjoyed me so much. I didn’t want to slap any of the characters because they were really damaged and broken ones who couldn’t achieve to leave their pasts behind.

Special thanks part coming right now! Thanks to Netgalley and Crooked Lane Books to share this ARC COPY in exchange my honest review and of course, too many thanks to Charlotte Duckworth to create this amazing story and give some much thrillers and enjoyment.

A thoroughly enjoyable read - I had to keep reading until I found out what happened!! Some insightful social commentary and well drawn characters. Several twists I didn't anticipate. Highly recommended!

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No matter how hard you’d try to stay away from all the social media, it became such a big part of our lives that it’s absolutely impossible not to be struck on a daily basis by news, videos, articles and photos of the never ending number of “influencers”. Today, everyone’s a blogger or a vlogger or some kind of an online celebrity and their fame rivals more and more the success of traditional famous people: singers, actors, athletes etc. Maybe one of the reasons is that they seem more “like us”, easier to relate to, giving you the false feeling of closure, of affiliation, of being your friend.

Fame grows with the numbers of followers. But probably what Violet Young, a famous Instagram mommy vlogger, didn’t consider when showering into all those benefits of her successful online career is that part of her fame grew on the obsession of her followers. Her daily videos become the center of their lives, the most awaited part of their days, the reason they keep going during difficult moments. And when all her accounts are suddenly erased and she completely disappears from the Internet, her fans go crazy. And they won’t stop at anything to find her.

Unfollow me comes with an amazing idea, wonderfully executed. The whole story is incredibly realistic and perfectly set up in this era that we’re living in.

Every chapter leaves you eager for more, there’s not a single boring page or paragraph that would prolong the story unnecessarily. The perspective changes from a character to another and for more than half of the book, it’s impossible to anticipate in what ways could their separate stories intertwine. The only thing all these people seem to have in common is their obsession over Violet. Only later, dark twists start to unfold in complicated and shocking paths and slowly, you’re allowed to connect the dots and reveal the whole picture.

I read this book without even breathing, devouring each word, each page, dying to know how the story of each character will evolve.

The rhythm is fast paced, the suspense is palpable but in the same time, there’s no feeling of shallowness throughout the novel. Charlotte Duckworth is digging through the human psychology like an expert, cold and precise, not fearing to expose the darkest corners of our minds, the shadiest wishes, the secrets that some people wouldn’t hesitate to kill for, in order to keep them hidden.

Of course I had to read this book next as I had just finished Follow Me...this was the logical next step! And I'm fascinated by social media and all of the hype! Violet is married with young girls and runs a vlog helping other mothers navigate PostPartum Depression as well as managing a household ferrying kids back and forth to school and activities. So when she shuts down her pages suddenly with no warning, her many followers are first annoyed and then worried that something has happened to her. Their attempts to reach out to her successful husband yield no real answers. Then we meet Lily and Yvonne, two very different women who are obsessed with Violet. Lily is a single mother to Archie and idolizes Violet and her seemingly perfect life. Yvonne, married to a younger man, is also following Violet but her obsession is with getting pregnant with her husband whose sperm is less-than-adequate. And yet, both of these women have secrets in their pasts that eventually collide with the present as we slowly learn the truth behind Violet's disappearance. So whether you choose to follow or unfollow, this book is both chilling and entertaining!

Violet is a social media influencer. Her life with her husband and 3 children is an open book. Or is it? While many of her followers hang on her every word and picture, not everyone thinks that she is perfect. Violet's world of power and wealth can seem unfair to some. Why should she be living such an affluent life and why is Violet so special?
When the day comes that Violet is no longer accessible to her followers, most cannot believe that she would just disappear from their lives. Told from multiple perspectives, Lily( a single mother), Yvonne( a woman desperate to have a child), Henry(Violet's husband), and blog posts by those trying to understand what happened, a twisted tale emerges. Has something happened to Violet or has she just decided the price of sharing her life with strangers is too high?
Unfollow Me was an eye-opening look at fame. Whether someone is a celebrity or an influencer, people have an up-close and personal window into your world. The story came together chapter by chapter and exposed many hidden truths. I didn't find much sympathy for any of the characters, but I was obsessed(not in a stalkerish way) with finding out how this would all fit together. Twisted, engaging, thought-provoking, and a very fast read! I will look for books by Charlotte Duckworth again!
I received a DRC from Crooked Lane Books through NetGalley.

Thank you for the advanced copy of Unfollow Me.
At first I found the book a little confusing with all the different characters and each chapter swapping to their side of the story but as the story unfolded it fell into place.
A very interesting and thought provoking book about how we live our modern lives through social networking and how we can feel we know people without even stepping outside our own living rooms.
Anyone can be anyone online which is disturbing and scary.
It brings up the question of how addictive social networking sites can be and also the prevalence of trolling.
An interesting read with a strong storyline and punchy ending.

A timely look at the tradeoff of personal privacy for social media influence, I found Unfollow Me to be an engrossing tale that compelled me to keep reading.

Duckworth's novel is told in the alternating voices of Lily, a widowed and struggling single mother, and Yvonne, a woman desperate to conceive. Both women are devotees of Violet Young, a mummy blogger who became famous due to her willingness to be frank about dealing with PPD. The book begins as Violet shuts down her social media accounts and goes silent without explanation, and the tight plot is wound around Lily and Yvonne's efforts to figure out what has happened to Violet.

It's true that some of the British colloquialisms can be tough for unfamiliar readers - I had to do a quick Google to decipher "thirties semi," or a semi-detached family home constructed in the 1930s. I was more than willing to work my way though the unfamiliar language, but others may not be so motivated.

The denouement was certainly not what I initially expected, and I'm still not sure if it was entirely satisfying, but my overall impression of this timely book is a positive one. The plot was gripping enough and, while Lily, Yvonne, and Violet were not necessarily likable characters, I did enjoy reading about them. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend the book to other fans of the mystery/thriller genre.