Thank you Netgalley, Crooked Lane Books and Charlotte Duckworth for allowing me to read this advance copy in exchange for an honest review

Violet shares her whole life online in a vlog on YouTube. There's nothing in her life that she doesn't share..her home, her kids, her husband and her whereabouts when shes not vlogging.

The only problem with putting yourself out there are the chances that there are psychos and people that might have a reason to hurt you. Especially when your loving husband has been being naughty and upset one of your followers. Putting yourself out there without any restrictions makes it easy for one of these psychos to maybe seek revenge for things you might not even be aware of. Violet is learning this but unfortunately there was a very heavy price that was made.

Loved this book and makes you think about your own time online. What information do you share sometimes without realizing it and who is reading it? ( )

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. ( )

So well written. I couldn't tell who was behind what and it all had me on the edge of my seat throughout the entire read.

You're not sure whether or not to like the characters involved, but I found myself rooting for everyone to find their way.

Twists that will shock you right to the very end. ( )

This book intrigued me with the title. Unfollow Me. I have an odd relationship with social media. Most of us probably do.
I love how you can stay in contact with family and friends who are far away. That’s what sucked me in. I had moved across the country, leaving behind everyone I knew and loved. It was lonely. Seeing everyone on social media made me feel closer to them. Like I hadn’t lost everything. I saw it as an amazing tool. Then games became big and I accepted friend request from people I didn’t know. From there, I found a book community. An introverts heaven! I still have a lot of those people on my social media. I can tell you quite a bit about them. I’m positive they can do the same. They became real friends, some very close.
A few years ago social media expanded. More options became available. I started playing on a game site, meeting people there. Writing a blog, I started reading blogs. Some were awesome. I was still innocent, though. Believing everything people said about their lives. It didn’t occur to me to lie or that others would. How can you have friendships if your lying? I did notice that some people started living glamorous lives. Some people changed. A number, the bloggers, worried about numbers of followers. Then my world was shaken. Someone I had met on the game site lied about who they were. Actually two people did and it resulted in the death of a young man. I played games with them. I didn’t question who they said they were. After that, I changed. I became more wary of the Internet. I knew people lied and it could go horribly wrong.
So when I saw this title on NetGalley, I was prepared for it to be a story about people who lie and it goes horribly wrong. I wasn’t prepared for all the twists and turns. I wasn’t prepared for how close to reality the writer was going to take us. I wasn’t exactly prepared for a thriller to give us a reality check message in the form of entertainment. Because it is a cautionary tale. We leave clues all over social media of who we are, where we live, what we have and what we want others to think we have. It is what Violet did. As an influencer, she opened the door. I’m not certain yet how I feel about her and Henry. I like Yvonne’s sense of humor. She has some of the best lines. There are also Simon, Lily and Luke. I’m not going into the story more than this. You know who the players are. You know someone lies and you know it goes wrong. There is so much, though, that you don’t know. Put this book on your TBR. It’s what you know combined with all the twisty turns that will have you turning pages.

A big thank you to NetGalley and Crooked Lane Books for offering the book for review consideration. All thoughts on it are mine. I’m delighted I read this book. If I hadn’t been so busy analyzing the characters and the situations I would have probably finished it in one sitting. I’ll most likely read this again. Flawed characters and social media are a huge draw for me.

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Unfollow Me is an exciting tale of two women, Yvonne and Lily, whose lives are unsettled by the sudden disappearance of a vlogger named Violet Young—better known to her millions of followers as Violetisblue. As the story unfolds, we learn that Yvonne and Lily both have more than just an obsessive habit of following Violet’s daily updates about her seemingly perfect family; they both have been interfering in Violet’s life for years—and not in a good way. We all know divulging too much information online can attract stalkers, or worse, and Charlotte Duckworth’s plot takes us to that dark place and then some. Thoroughly engaging and suspenseful, this book was an entertaining thrill ride. ( )