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

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becomes more and more paranoid, afraid of a person who's standing behind Maria's profile and secrets that could come out.

And I began pointing my little detective’s finger at everyone and creating the most off the wall scenarios to make them fit. Laura Marshall has written written a marvelous thriller that hits several hot tops from single parenting and online dating to bullying and social media and she doesn't shy away from these vulnerabilities in the least. Outside the French doors, my tiny courtyard garden is wearing its bleak late-autumn clothes, paving stones slick with the earlier freezing rain. And when she receives a friend request on Facebook from a classmate long thought dead, all of the dark secrets of her own personal Pandora's box come flying out as we slowly figure out what happened on the last night that she saw her ex-friend Maria, and what is at stake for her now, as an adult. As the story progresses though it definitely picks up when more of the mystery within reveals itself and then it is less about mean girls.Friend Request by Laura Marshall had raving reviews and endorsements from Jenny Colgan, Marian Keyes and Erin Kelly. We all really enjoyed the voice of this unknown narrator and liked discussing and guessing who we thought it might be. The author, Laura Marshall, expertly carries Louise's story in alternating chapters entitled 1989 and 2016. The friend request kicks off a chain of events for Louise, bringing back her pain and fear from those years, long ago.

They immediately transported me back to my insecure self where it felt like one popular girl/dictator held my social life (which felt like life and death back then) in her well manicured hands.we definitely had some wild theories as to what Was going on, and I don’t believe any of us were right, LOL as usual an enjoyable read with you ladies! As for the ending to this one, I thought the author did a great job keeping it a believable outcome overall while adding in a few extra little twists to the story. 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. Probably this is just my own limited empathetic skills preventing me from being able to fully appreciate the fear engendered by this contact from a girl believed dead so long ago, but it took me about half way through the book to appreciate that her paranoia had some grounds, and it wasn’t til the ending that I understood her and completely appreciated her fear. I thought this was done very well, the two stories unraveling at the same time, both of them kept me on the edge and kept me trying to figure this all out (and I never did).

However, when Louise gets a friend request on Facebook from Maria Weston her heart nearly stops as the past comes flooding back into her life and the memories that have haunted her for years are brought back to the surface. Imagine receiving a friend request on Facebook from somebody you knew in high school who you thought was dead, what would you do? But as she tries to piece together exactly what happened that night, Louise discovers there's more to the story than she ever knew.This is a good debut thriller: full of tension and successfully exploring modern concerns around social networking and bullying while fully embedding them in the plot. THE BLURB: A paranoid single mom is forced to confront the unthinkable act she committed as a desperate teenager in this addictive thriller with a social media twist. You think you’re happy with a theory you’ve come up with and then all of a sudden something pops up with someone else and you get suspicious again. As Louise tries to find out who’s behind the request and the chilling messages that follow, she’s drawn back to her circle of old school friends; and when a tragic event drags the past into the present, she is forced to figure out who she can trust and to face the guilty memories she thought she’d left behind. I wish that I could loosen this secret knot within me, a knot that is tied so tightly I don’t think anyone will ever be able to get their fingers into its intricacies to tug it apart, however hard they try.