This is a smart and suspenseful debut novel from Ellery Lloyd. Sometimes an online community can be a lifeline or sometimes it could be risking your life. This book while dramatic shows a very realistic dark side to social media. Emmy is kind of obnoxious insta mom who is completely self aware (at least she has that) that her brand often comes before her family. Her husband obviously isn't a fan of this. Is he jealous of her success or is her onto something else? It's kind of messed up what she does in order to stay the #1 insta mom. Fame severely clouds her judgement. We alternate perspectives between the husband Dan, Emmy and her "stalker". Truth be told they are all a bit selfish and unlikable but I think that's the point here. Some people let social media and fame become an obsession and they lose themselves completely. The story has realistic eeriness and cliffhangers that kept me reading. It's a thrilling read for any social media lover and a reminder to be careful who you let into your world- even virtually. Thank you NetGalley and HarperCollins for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

This was a great thriller about the dangers of social media, similar to Follow Me by Kathleen Barber. The inside world of influencers is always amazing to me. I got my fix with this book. It was an added bonus that there was an edge of your seat suspense story to it as well. It took a bit for the suspense to build up, but I was fully entertained while that happened. The ending was very tense, with some ups and downs you don’t expect. Highly recommend this read!

Only now does it dawn on me that what I am seeing are not actual memories but memories of photographs. Whole days boiled down to a single static image. Whole relationships. Whole eras.”

This book had the makings of being wonderful but I am someone who appreciates lots of dialogue and I didn’t get that in this book. I did like hearing from the three most important perspectives but goodness, I missed the dialogue and feel like I may have liked it more if there was.

Thanks to NetGalley and Harper for an advance copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

The more thrillers I read, the higher my standards get. I always appreciate it when authors come up with unique concepts for their books, and that's why I enjoyed People Like Her so much. This book has three main characters: Emmy, an Instafamous mom who has millions of followers; Dan, her washed-up novelist husband who is skeptical of her internet fame; and an unnamed character who has a bone to pick with Emmy, although we don't find out why until much later in the story. This book is entertaining and suspenseful, but not so scary that you can't read it at night. I will say there are a few parts that are get a little dark and if you have kids/are trying to have kids I would check the TWs (below) to make sure it's okay for you. Overall, a fresh thriller that I really enjoyed!

TW: miscarriage, abortion, death of a child, child hospitalization

Review posted on Goodreads on October 16, 2020.

A chilling, thought-provoking debut. This story about the disturbing effects social media can have on influencers had me gripped from the very first page to the shocking end.

People Like Her
A Novel
by Ellery Lloyd
Harper
You Like Them You Are Auto-Approved
General Fiction (Adult) | Mystery & Thrillers | Women's Fiction
Pub Date 12 Jan 2021 | Archive Date 09 Mar 2021

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I found it very believable and I loved the 3 POV the story was told in. I will recommend this to our readers. Thanks to Harper and NetGalley for ARC. I like to read books before they are on our shelf so I can help readers with their choices.

5 stars

I was intrigued by this book because of the description. I've always been fascinated by influencers, and this book was well-researched and one-hundred percent believable. I will recommend to all of those who are interested in this subject as well! The ending was the only thing that was a little weird.

People Like Her is a timely novel when so many people are glued to social media and eating up every word from their favorite influencers. The amount of deception, manipulation, and outright lies Emmy uses on her followers in the name of bigger and bigger paychecks is disgusting, and no doubt a decent picture of what actually goes on behind those little Instagram squares. The stalker and her backstory was so well done. The entire book was compulsively readable. What an awesome, terrifying ride into the depths of social media and the people who profit off of it.

Thank you NetGalley and Harper for access to this ARC!

Y’all. I will never look at an Instagram influencer page the same way again. Wow! Wow! Wow! So many thoughts in my head! First, I absolutely loved the first person perspective from Emmy, Dan, and the creepy stalker. I really like that the authors are a husband and wife team and enjoyed reading alternating chapters. It’s so cringe-y to read about how planned out the influencer thing is because I see a zillion of those kinds of accounts on Instagram myself as a wife and mom scrolling through my feed. The writing is so great and I was all nestled in thinking I knew exactly where it was all going when my hand flew to my mouth in shock! The twists and jaw-droppers just kept coming from that moment on! People Like Her is absolutely unputdownable and I can’t recommend it highly enough! Definite 5 stars from me!!!

Huge thanks to Harper Books and NetGalley for allowing me the incredible privilege of reading this book in advance!

A fascinating yet very realistic look into being a social media influencer. Loved the look at the various aspects that came alongside--Emmy's "pod" of Instamums, the commentary on how Instamums are different from the US to the UK to Aus, the moments where Coco broke from the mould, and of course the dark side. And it's incredibly creepy to realise that this book was written by a husband-and-wife duo!

Don't mistake this book as fluffy: it gets very gritty at points, and has a constant element of creepy vulnerability running right through it. There's a slight twist to this at the end that might be less of a twist and more of a bow tied neatly around the package to keep the main plot nicely together, though I wished that a subplot had also been pulled in. Though I felt at moments that it focused too much on the more dramatic elements and not enough on the more personal elements, like Emmy's backstory, this was an easy read to run through.

Emmy finds out how to make money through social media. As an influencer with a million followers, Emmy plays to the "crowd". She does this by pretending just to "muddle through" her daily activities as an Instamum. Her 4 year old daughter and infant son act as perfect props in this super tale.

However, Emmy's husband, Dan, is getting a bit tired of it all. He fells used. And he is! Dan is so busy with his wife's blogging that he hasn't written a novel in 8 years...

So, what could happen? A LOT!!!

My advice is to read this thriller and enjoy! HIGHLY recommend!

Many Thanks to HarperCollins, Publisher and NetGalley for a wild ride.

Emmy Jackson is an ambitious influencer mom whose soaring success comes from being the honest "instamum" who tells it like it is. Dan her husband who is a novelist that has only had one book published, and has been working on his second for the past seven years, knows his wife has quite a knack of spinning the truth. Emmy and Dan have two children three-year-old Coco, and a new baby boy that is 5 weeks old named Bear. Emmy known as @mamabear shows the not so glamourous side of parenting, and to show that all the tired mamas are in this together. She also has conventions were her adoring fans gather to meet her in person and to get Emmy's advice on parenting issues they are currently facing.
Emmy doesn't realize that she has a dangerous follower that seems to think that Emmy and her family have a perfect life, but is certain Emmy deserves none of it.
This is a new suspense debut that is written by Ellery Lloyd. And it is written by a wife and husband which gives Emmy and Dan their unique personalities. The authors do a really good job of exposing what it's like to be a social media influencer and the challenges of parenting online. This is told by Emmy, Dan, and the fan that is obsessed with Emmy. I liked how the fan tells their story at first it seems they are just a dangerous stalker, but then they start telling the story of why they are determined to make Emmy pay for what she has taken from them. This book will make you think about what we are quick to share with strangers just to get likes and followers, and what would happen when we allow access into our everyday life, and how quickly it can turn into a bad situation.

Thank you to Net Galley and Harper Collins for allowing me early access to this arc.
Publication date: 01-12-2021

Is social media dangerous? Do people reflect their genuine lives on social media or is it just a facade, a reflection of who they want to be, not who they are?

People Like Her, is a tale of social media gone wrong. It’s a thrilling, slow-burn of darkness, hatred and lies all the way up to the shocking climax. Wrapped up in this story is a cautionary tale of the potential dangers of social media when it goes too far. This story caught me, hook, line and sinker. I immersed myself into the story and flew through the pages in one day.

Emma Jackson is an influencer and spends her days posting on social media documenting mom life as an “Instamum”. She often embellishes or twists reality to fit her narrative. Her husband, Dan, tells about their life from his POV. The third perspective is from an ominous and unknown person who is closely watching the Jackson family. This persons musings get more and more twisted as the story goes on. I won’t reveal any spoilers, so you will have to read it for yourself to find out what happens.

Thank you to NetGalley & HarperCollins for the ARC of this novel. Definitely one of my top reads this year!

#PeopleLikeHer

Trigger warning for the mention of infant death.

Okay - I LOVED THIS BOOK. Full stop. Add it to your TBR list. You'll like it if you: keep up with any influencer drama reported by the blue checks on Twitter, find yourself browsing snark sites (hello GOMI/blogsnark), or if you watched You and felt scared for us all, living our lives in full view of everybody else on social media.

This book is gripping from the start - it's truly a one sitting read. You've got Emmy (Instagram famous mommy blogger, who's doing the most to be relatable and look good doing it), her husband Dan (who's a published author and fed up with the Instagram husband life), and a third POV (not revealed until later, but clearly watching Emmy and Dan's family). Throughout the story, you're getting each of these perspectives, and it makes the story feel really full. I especially loved getting both sides of Emmy and Dan's live and seeing the way that influencing impacted their relationship.

I would've loved more detail in the epilogue, BUT this book was so good that it still deserved five stars. Domestic thrillers and stories that center social media are so popular that it's hard to find something that's truly fresh, and Ellery Lloyd's debut novel did it. Can't wait for more of her work!

People Like Her focuses on a momstagram influencer named Emmy who appears to have the perfect life. When However, behind the perfect facade, Emmy is struggling with her relationship with her husband and is being stalked by one of her social media followers. The book navigates between Emmy's perspective and the perspective of the stalker. As someone mildly obsessed with influencer culture, I really loved that aspect of the book. It's a very timely story that will leave people thinking of the role of social media in our lives.

I’ve read a LOT of “how does she do it” mom stories over the last few years and I’m officially tired of them. After working as a nanny a lot in my youth (ha), I find myself unsympathetic to a lot of these kinds of tales. Not my jam.

In this strange new world dominated by social media, there is a new profession, it is the INFLUENCER. This book is about Emmy, who becomes an influencer with her own line of products. But, under all the glamour, there is the danger of exposing ones’ private life to the public, sometimes very scary public.

Emmy, Dan and their children have their lives turned upside down by an anonymous person who gathers information from Emmy’s posts and tries to destroy her and her family. This is a good warning about use of the internet and the loss of privacy.

This book is a really engrossing read. For those of us who grew up without social media, this book is a learning experience, wrapped in a good mystery.

Thank you Netgalley for this really original book.

Okay.... let me start by saying that I really did enjoy this book.... however, from reading the description I assumed the storyline about someone targeting Emmy would have been a much larger plot point. Instead, I think most of the book focused on the relationship of Emmy and her husband, Dan, and was a statement about how social media affects our lives. Maybe I am the only one who feels this way, but I thought the passages from the deranged woman seeking revenge against Emmy for a misguided attempt at parenting advice, seemed almost as if they were added as an afterthought. I don't necessarily think it took anything from this novel- it was still entertaining, and I'm in love with the author's style and the fact that she used three separate furst-person narrative voices- but I guess I was just expecting something a little different. Still was a great book; I will be recommending it.

By turns darkly humorous and terrifying, this novel peeks behind the scenes of Instagram influencer "mamabare"'s carefully engineered, just-imperfect-enough public life. Emmy must constantly tend to her brand, showing herself to be joyful and upbeat while struggling just like her fans with the daily challenges of motherhood. Author LLoyd shows the artificiality of the influencer's public persona and how life in the public eye can become a trap--Emmy is the breadwinner in her household, and her unsuccessful efforts to move into television leave her with no choice but to maintain her Instamum brand, even to the point of wearing only sponsored, primary-colored clothing in public. Meanwhile, in an alternate narrative a stranger is watching Emmy, planning a horrible revenge. Entertaining, timely, and smartly written, People Like Her is highly recommended. As a warning, child jeopardy features in the book and may be disturbing to some readers.

Psychological suspense that examines how technology and social media celebrity, can turn dark. It's about status and what lengths people will go to be on top, get on top. Well developed characters, page turner, being able to both cheer for and yet cringe at the main character Emmy Jackson. Well done. Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC.