With this author it's probably pretty good. This one is. There are too many helpful reviews already so I'll just it there. Thriller fans will probably eat this one up.

I really appreciate the advanced review copy!!

3.5 stars

A guy becomes obsessed with a girl. He stalks her online and takes extraordinary measures and extra creepy steps to learn everything about her. He will do whatever it takes to insert himself in her life and make her his own. Sound familiar?

While Follow Me is quite similar to You, it is not a copy cat. There are enough differences that make it interesting to read.

Someone is stalking Audrey, a social media influencer who posts EVERY element of her life online. The reader doesn’t know who her creepy stalker is, turning this into a bit of a mystery. Is it her new handsy co-worker? Her crazy best-friend? Her ex-boyfriend? Her new boyfriend? The creepy guy who has gained access to her workplace? A random fan who follows her online? I wasn’t sure how things were going to play out, and boy do they take an interesting turn.

Follow Me is split between the POV’s of Audrey, “Him,” and Cat (Audrey’s best friend).

Audrey is maybe a slightly more likable version of Beck. She is self-involved and annoying, but there are moments when I felt bad for her. They didn’t last long, though.

“Him” ain’t no Joe. He lacks Joe’s charisma and sinister charm.

Cat is Audrey’s best friend. Cat, well, she changes everything! She has the most interesting voice of the three characters, IMHO.

Is Follow Me better than You? HELL NO! However, it’s a thoroughly entertaining and twisty read that kept me guessing. The ending is all kinds of crazy and over the top fun. Barber adds an interesting twist by playing off the vulnerability of those who feel the need to live their lives on Social Media.

I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

A wild ride from START to FINISH. This book read almost as a podcast would. The story is told from varying viewpoints - Audrey, who is an influencer; Cat, who is Audrey's friend; and Audrey's stalker/obsessor. The story is very well written in that you do not find out who the obsessor is until the very last moments and it is a good tale along the way as well. The character development and knowledge of how people's minds works is very good to help illustrate exactly what is going on in the story.
The story follows Audrey as she moves from NYC to DC for a job and reconnects with old friend Cat. She is an instagram influencer so it is a very timely story for this day and age and I think it really resonated with me as someone who pays attention to social media for various things - design information, fashion, makeup.
I found myself very drawn in and actually finished it in record time. I would definitely recommend this to anyone looking for a creepy winter tale. Well done.

This ebook was provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

3.75 Stars

Attention. Some people thrive on it and sometimes it might just get you into trouble.

Just ask Audrey Miller. She’s hooked on Instagram and has more than hundreds of thousands of followers.

Her Insta account is how she got a job at the Smithsonian as a Social Media manager. One of the problems with Audrey is that she loves her followers and of course, they love her. Some, in fact, are obsessed with her. Too bad Audrey doesn’t take it seriously. That however is a problem that will be remedied, quickly I might add.

Do you feel the need to look over your shoulder? Close down your social media accounts? Perhaps you should do both. Just a friendly warning from a concerned citizen.

“Follow Me” is a terrifying look at social media and how it can impact a young woman’s life in this day and age. While some parts of this novel were a bit far-fetched in my opinion, this was a compelling, intense read that both scared and entertained me.

Another buddy read with Kaceey!

Thank you to Bianca Salvant at Gallery Books, NetGalley and Kathleen Barber for the arc.

Published on Goodreads and Netgalley on 12.1.19.

I received Follow Me by Kathleen Barber as an advanced reader copy from Netgalley. Follow Me tells the story of 2 friends from college, Cat and Audrey. Audrey is the popular girl that everyone loves and Cat is the prettier but awkward friend. Follow Me is a suspense novel that focuses on stalking. It was a quick read but I found the novel very predictable. It was easy to figure out what was going to happen at the end. I prefer a suspense novel that has more twists and turns and leaves you guessing at the end. The book was well written just not very exciting.

Audrey Miller lives her life online. With over one million followers on Instagram, Audrey is what you would call an "influencer" - someone who has such a following on social media that they are able to sway the purchasing decisions of the masses who adore them. Although being an influencer is great, Audrey has just landed her dream job - a position as the Social Media Manager for one of the Smithsonian museums. However, accepting her dream job means moving from New York to Washington D.C. into a basement apartment with a faulty lock. The broken lock isn't the only creepy thing about her new place though - she swears she keeps hearing noises in her apartment. There is also the alley level window in her bedroom, and there have even been some sinister comments popping up on her Instagram. With over a million people following her on social media, Audrey is bound to have fans, but what about stalkers?

Kathleen Barber's Follow Me is a novel for the times. So many people put their entire lives online without giving a second thought as to who is perusing their photos and following their every movement. Social media is not all harmless fun and games, as Follow Me explicitly demonstrates. Giving complete strangers access to your personal, private life can have insidious consequences, as Audrey Miller soon finds out.

Follow Me will allure readers with a tale of the dangers of social media, but it will keep them hooked with the way it is written. Audrey has several questionable people in her life, and Barber lets you believe that any one of them is capable of being her stalker. This writing tactic makes this story irresistible - readers will feel exactly like Audrey, whipping her head around wondering just who she can trust. With a sinister aura and hair-raising incidences of genuine creepiness, Follow Me is a fun, yet frightful, dive into one woman's very public private life.

Thank you to NetGalley and Gallery Books for an ARC of this novel in exchange for an honest review.

I enjoyed reading Follow Me by Kathleen Barber alot. I had no problem getting into the story, it pulled me in from the very first page. This book will make you look at social media differently, that's for sure. I also loved Truth Be Told by Kathleen Barber. I am looking forward to reading more from her in the future.

This was my first book by this author, It was pretty enjoyable. I would give this book a 3.5 star rating! It was a pretty Quick and easy read!

Be careful what you share on social media! You never know who is watching!

FOLLOW ME introduces Audrey, who shares practically everything she does on her social media account for her thousands of followers. One of her followers gets a little too attached however and Audrey soon finds herself being watched with strange things happening that make her question everyone around her. Follow Me is written in 3 POV's, Audrey, her best friend Cat (who was the most interesting to me) and "Him", the stalker, whose identity is unknown to the reader.

I didn't love Audrey, she was a bit narcissistic and annoying. Overall, I found this to be a quick, easy read that kept me engaged until the end. Although I didn't love it as much as I loved her first novel "Are you Sleeping", I still enjoyed it and look forward to Kathleen Barber's next book.

A big thank you to the publisher Gallery/Pocket Books and NetGalley for allowing me the opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book. 3.5 to 4 stars -

This was a quick and twisty read. It's told from 3 different POVs, Audrey, the primary character,who moves from NYC to DC for a new job, her friend, Cat, who lives in DC, and the stalker, whose identity the reader doesn't know. Audrey lives her life on Instagram, which is relevant in this day and age, but makes you realize just how much information she is giving to potentially scary people watching from afar.

I liked the story overall, but I didn't love Audrey, and I REALLY didn't like Cat. Another reviewer said something to the extent of Audrey being adorably annoying, and that resonated with me. She is shallow but seems unaware of that so it's hard to hate her, but also hard to relate to her. It wasn't hard at all for me to dislike Cat, though- she drove me crazy the whole way through the book.

When the stalker identity is revealed, it wasn't surprising at all, which was almost surprising in itself.- maybe that was the intention.

Overall, I think this book is worth a read- I finished it in a few hours. Thanks to Netgalley for providing a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I enjoyed reading "Follow Me" by Kathleen Barber. It was a pretty fast paced read. The character development was really well done. I feel like she wrote certain characters in certain ways to make you like them, only to have that ripped away from you as the book progressed. That being said, I found Audrey to be rather annoying for quite a bit of the book. Regardless, this was a fun read and I'm excited to see what Barber writes next.

Thanks to NetGalley, I read this ARC. The plot was fresh, centering on the recent phenomenon of social media “influencers” who post practically their entire lives online and are often given free products to post (push) on their feeds. This young woman, Audrey, moved from NYC to Washington DC to take a prestigious museum job and use her social media expertise to encourage attendance. Oddly, the exhibit she was “influencing” was a series of dioramas showing the true story of a woman who was stalked and killed. She only knew a couple of people and they became embroiled in a stalking case of her own. So many details seemed highly improbable to me. It was a good start, but I’d like to see this genre explored more intelligently.

I loved this one. So there, right off the bat you know this is going to be a gratuitously positive review. When we first meet Audrey, she’s just the perfect girl. Perfect in the way that she has some faults – like a slight snaggle tooth. But it seems like she has just the perfect amount of faults to make her even more relatable and adorable to her thousands of followers – and one totally psycho stalker.
She’s an influencer. And it’s isn’t even her job, although I’m sure she must do pretty well from it. But she is also a social media manager for the Smithsonian. So she spends every waking hour on social media, whether its for her career or for sport (or her ego!)
Audrey is one of those adorable people who you either completely love, or completely loathe. But lucky for her, most people love her. It’s just the people closest to her who may harbor those negative feelings. And as she has just moved to D.C., the town where her stalker lives, everyone is a suspect.
Barber does a great job creating characters who are all just a little bit sketchy so it’s really hard to figure out which of the people in her life is her stalker. But isn’t the reality – we’re all a little bit sketchy in our own ways. And Audrey is one of those people who is so adorably clueless, she doesn’t even see how vapid and surface her own life really is.
That last paragraph sounded a little negative though. And I’m not trying to be. This book was amazing. But just goes to show you don’t have to love a main character to love the book. Huge thank you to Netgalley and Gallery Pocket Books for an advanced e-galley in exchange for my honest review. My review will be publisher on my blog, Women in Trouble Book Blog on January 29, 2019.

What a rollercoaster ride! I could not put this book down from the beginning. This book is told from multiple perspectives and I found each perspective to be interesting which doesn't always happen when a book is told that way. This is the story of a young woman who shares her entire life on social media and ends up with a stalker. I found this book to be so creepy and I don't even share that much on social media! I did not see the ending coming at all. I am so glad I had the opportunity to read this book. I can't wait to read more from this author. This one is going on my top reads for the year list!
Thank you to netgalley and the publisher for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I really enjoyed this book. It was very different from most psychological thrillers you read today and also very relevant. It explores the life of an instagram influencer and how she gains a stalker from over sharing. It’s a great read for young adults who tend to overshare on social media, but also a good entertaining read for all. I do feel like some of the minor characters lacked development and I didn’t ever really see a purpose for some of them, but overall this was an excellent read!

Now that is some seriously twisted people! We have an obsessively oversharing person as the main character. And we all have friends and family that actually do overshare on social media. So Audrey is totally believable. She has a strange assortment of friends that make you question what a friend is for today's younger set. Audrey does seem to make the most out of her public adoration until she realizes she is not safe in her own home. Thus we start down the rabbit hole of does she have a stalker or is she just forgetful and paranoid?

The characters in the book pull you in and make you question your own online presence. It makes you pause and question if your friends are truly friends you can count on. When you go to work will you look at your co-workers with fresh eyes? The book is interesting, timely and terrifying. Could it happen to you?

It takes excellent writing skills to create this type of book. The ending twist was a surprise. The last few pages makes me wonder if more is to come.

Excellent cautionary tale of over sharing on the internet. Audrey is a smart, college educated, beautiful young woman who is also an Instagram influencer. What Audrey doesn’t know is that she has an internet stalker who has followed her every movement online for several years. When Audrey accepts her dream job in a new town, she has no idea that she is actually moving to the same town as the man who is stalking her. This book is super creepy as it tells the point of view of the stalker and Audrey, and it shows how close he is to her without her knowledge. Without knowing it Audrey makes finding and tracking her every move incredibly easy because of her chronic posting of all the details of her life online. Excellent psychological thriller that will make you never want to get online again. Highly recommend.

This topic was very timely as we had a similar situation at my library. Less than a week after finishing this novel, I became aware of events involving a coworker and a customer who was stalking her. He would wait in the parking lot just to greet her or would peer into where the service desk was located to see if she was working. He would look for her in the stacks. He was approached by administration after they because aware of his behaviors and he was totally shocked the employee was not totally into him, even though she had told him she was happily married and repeatedly requested all conversations be library related. She had to take out a restraining order when he showed up at her residence very unexpectedly. This novel helped me to somewhat understand what his mental state was and why he might act like Max. My PR department helped me understand what filters were and how this would be a money maker for Audrey.

I really loved this book! A stalker story told in multiple POVs with several great twists? Sign me up!

Having enjoyed "Are you Sleeping" I was eager to read Kathleen Barber's follow up novel "Follow Me". The suspenseful read follow Instagram-star Audrey as she relocates from New York to DC for her dream job at an art museum - as director of Social Media. Told in alternating voices of Audrey, her college friend Cat and "Him", Audrey's online stalker who steps up his game when she arrives in her city, the reader tries to discern who is Audrey's real threat. An interesting study of social media and modern 'fame', this novel is a true page turner.