The story begins with the famous internet sensation, mommy vlogger Violet suddenly missing from the world wide web! All her social channels are gone and her fans are going frantic. No one knows where's she and what happened to her and her husband Harry doesn't seem to be bothered by his wife's media-disappearance at all!

Amongst Violet's several die hard fans is Lily, a single mom of Archie who is obsessed with Violet as she believes it was Violet who inspired her during her darkest hours. She would do anything to find out what happened to Violet, no matter how close she must have to go to find out the truth. Even if it's called 'stalking'.

Meet Yvonne, a wedding photographer who is struggling so hard to get pregnant in her 40s and slowly going out of options. She is also equally obsessed with Violet's family, but for entirely different reasons. She would do anything to find violet, even if it means going against her husband Harry!

Told from the PoVs of both the women, Unfollow Me is a roller-coaster ride structured so brilliantly to hook the reader right from the first page. The author has thrown in several glimpses of what happens in social channels including comments from blogs, and newspaper clippings to induce the curiosity of the book. It gets very interesting as the reader is as clueless as Violet's fans about her disappearance and each chapter gives us yet another shocking suspense that's totally unexpected!

I lost count of the number of times the plot blew me away, but with the short and razor sharp chapters, Charlotte Duckworth brilliantly manipulates her readers. It's terrifying to realize what the social media could do to your life if not treated properly. The author has touched some very sensitive matters including late abortion, sexual harassment at workplace, postnatal depression, deceit and infidelity. The narration might be a tad bit confusing to the readers at some places as it goes back and forth between the characters and also to their past and present.

I'm so glad I chose to read this book and very easily became a fan of the author. For sure I'll be following her and what she writes in the future. Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for my ARC. All opinions mine.

Violet Young is a popular figure on social media and YouTube. She is a journalist-turned-mummy-influencer. She has millions of followers until one day she disappears and all the social media are deleted with no explanation. The mystery begins to find out if Violet was tired of living on-line or something more sinister happened. Two obsessed fans, Lily and Yvonne, are determined to find out. There are many twists and turns leading to a surprise ending. Very well written! A must read.

Violet Young is a mommy vlogger who openly shares her struggle with postpartum depression. Like an good social media sensation with an influencer following, Violet shares sneak peeks into her personal life, including her beautiful house, well-behaved kids, and handsome husband, but overnight, something sinister seems to occur. Violet's legions of adoring fans awaken to find ALL of her social media accounts have vanished. They fear the worst has happened, and they are determined to find out what that might be.

Unfollow Me by Charlotte Duckworth is the first book I've read from this author, and she did not disappoint! This was a fast-paced, entertaining thriller, with quite a few LOL moments thrown in via expertly placed dialogue. I thought this was a unique story with an interesting POV strategy that was really fitting for the digital age we live in. Over all, this was a wonderfully written thriller that held my attention and threw in quite a few twists I didn't see coming. I highly recommend this one!

I received an ARC from the publisher via NetGalley. This is my honest, unbiased opinion.

Violet, a mummy vlogger, deletes all of her social media accounts overnight, without a word of explanation.
Her fans are desperate to know what happened, and some of them even take it upon themselves to find out if their favourite influencer is not in trouble.

This is an absolutely fantastic book. It grips you right from the very first page and doesn't let go until the last one. I raced through it with bated breath and had to stay up late to finish it. There was no way I could put it down.
The plot is full of surprising revelations, and each time something new was revealed I literally gasped in shock. When I thought I had it all figured out, the twists shattered all of my theories into pieces.
The story has multiple narrators: Yvonne, who is married to Simon and desperate for a baby; Lily, a single mum, and Henry, Violet's husband. Their seemingly unconnected stories blend slowly together. The characters aren't particularly likeable, but the author does an excellent job of making the reader feel for them.
If you're looking for a fast-paced, unputdownable, and intriguing read then look no further.
This is my first book from this author, but I already added her other novel to my tbr list. Solid 5 stars.
Thank you NetGalley, Crooked Lane Books and Charlotte Duckworth for an opportunity to review this book ahead of its publication day.

What happened to Violet? Where is she? How do the characters connect. This book kept me flipping pages until I got my answers. This author is a masterful storyteller and I recommend this book.
Many thanks to Crooked Lane Books and to NetGalley for providing me with a galley in exchange for my honest opinion.

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.

Oh, my!

I’m not going to pretend that this is anything but a popcorn read, but what a popcorn read it is!

Relentlessly addictive, it’s one of those books you just can’t look away from.

Do our characters get up to some sordid stuff? Sure, but it’s not so sordid that you hate them and read it. It’s just scandalous enough that you need to see where it’s going.

This is a fun read.

Thanks to the author for writing such an entertaining story!

*ARC provided via Net Galley.

Wow what a read! Violet! This book speaks of post partum depression and our use of social media. What is the price to pay for putting yourself out there on social media? This story was a thriller and I highly highly recommend it!! I love how it is told from the different characters!

3.5 STARS

I think this is the third book about the dangers of social media I've read in the past few months.

I really enjoyed the beginning and the mysterious disappearance of a hugely successful mommy/wifey vlogger. Her followers were caught off guard and devastated to find all her accounts and posts deleted without explanation. They had no way to feed their obsession with her and her family.

I'd describe this one as a light psychological thriller with potential. The story line became somewhat repetitive and had me wanting more plot around the 25% mark.

It is entertaining and I wanted to finish it to see how it would wrap up, but was hoping for a bit more.

I was quite confused throughout most of this book which, coupled with all the characters being unlikeable, meant that I did not manage to finish. Thanks to the publisher and netgalley for an ARC egalley.

The life of an online vlogger is dissected as she and her family seemingly become the property of others. The story centers around the women who follow Violet’s vlogs and social media, and who are obsessed with her in one way or another. At times this seems insightful, yet downright stalker-ish at others.

Yvonne is trying to conceive with her infertile husband, and she has some unfinished and leading history that entangles her in a mess. Lily is a single mother trying to stay sober and have something that passes for a life. They and the countless other women on GoMamas that are devastated when Violet suddenly ghosts them all from her media feeds leads the story into what really happened. What began as a group of women following a vlogger turns into a network of detectives to find out what happened to Violet, and nothing is as it seems. Lies, manipulation and cheating are swirled together into the maelstrom of these women’s lives, which makes for an interesting read! Duckworth definitely makes you think about what you put online for everyone to see, and who is actually seeing it!

Charlotte Duckworth has crafted an engrossing page turner of a read in Unfollow Me. Well worth the read!

Fairly average domestic thriller (ish). Maybe it's not so much of a thriller as it is a cautionary tale? I don't know. It was a quick read and the storyline fell into place, although it was a bit to follow along at first because the alternating points of view don't really seem to go together until about halfway through the novel. I will say that none of the characters are likable, which usually really turns me off. I would have quit based on that fact alone, but I wanted to know what happened. There are lots of better books out there, but there are also LOTS of not good books out there also!

Unfollow Me starts with a chilling email to Violet, a social media influencer with more than one million subscribers on YouTube.

We learn early on (from the perspective of our two main characters - Lily and Yvonne) that Violet’s social media presence has inexplicably vanished, and no one knows where she is or if she’s okay.

These characters are OBSESSED with Violet - a woman they’ve never met, but think they know due to her constant vlogs of her daily life. It’s very relevant to society today, how many “influencers” have turned into micro-celebrities. They have fans, they have haters, they might even have stalkers. It also gave me MTV Diary vibes (throwback! Remember: you think you know, but you have no idea?!)

Details are revealed as the story progresses, and we do get chapters from Violet’s husband’s point of view as well. However, the majority of the book is confusing (not necessarily in a bad way). I found myself wanting to read more just so I could get some answers and find out wtf is going on.

Unfortunately, the ending was a little lackluster for me. I still enjoyed the book, and enjoyed the perspective it gave on “influencer” culture!

A cautionary tale into the world of social media and the people you can encounter. Great feeling of suspense built up throughout, unfolding as the characters developed.

I had this book all wrong- I was so sure that I knew exactly what was going on throughout but once I finished reading that last page I realized how completely wrong I had been. The book is told through three POVs, one being Henry, Violets husband while the other two are Lily and Yvonne, Violets devoted followers who are out searching for the truth about her disappearance. I found Unfollow Me to be twisty and unputdownable. I thought it was engaging, thought provoking and a fast read. I CNT wait to see what Charlotte Duckworth does next.

I would like to thank Netgalley and Crooked Lane Books for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Well, what to say about this one? Firstly it was the first time i read anything by this author. This book was about Lily, Yvonne and Henry,and how they were all linked to Violet, an online influencer. The thing I didn't like was that up until around the 50% mark I even know who these people were and how they were relevant. I didn't begin to understand until around 2/3 rds in. Overall, the book was a fat read and fairly ok but just not for me.

I give it 2.5 Stars.

Thanks so much to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an ARC of this one.

Unfollow Me by Charlotte Duckworth is about the life behind cameras of a social influencer and her followers. Obsessed with her life, two followers scramble to find out what happened when suddenly Violet Young deleted all her social channels.

The story is told in the narratives of Lily, Yvonne and Henry. We see through their eyes the extension of their obsession with Violet, and what goes on inside their own lives. While all these characters are flawed and unlikeable, I thought Yvonne was a very well-written and developed character. You can see how her past has shaped her and motivated actions.

Lily, on the other hand, was underdeveloped. I still have a lot of questions as to what led to some of her actions. For example, there was a part where her son told her the scratch on his head was caused by her. There was no further explanation into that. I found her really unlikeable, more so than Yvonne.

Overall, I found the book to be a bit of a drag, and it led to an anti-climatic ending, in my opinion. There were no shockers for me.

Thank you to Netgalley, the author and publisher for providing me with an ARC of this book, in exchange for an honest, unbiased review.

Multiple people obsessed and trolling a YouTube influencer suddenly the influencer deletes her entire online footprint and no one knows why. This is the basis of the book Unfollow Me.

This quick read kept me hooked from beginning to end. The story is told via three main viewpoints

Lilly- a 27 year old single mom. She discovered Violet(the YouTuber) during her period of time right after her man left her and her son with nothing

Yvonne- a 30 something woman trying to get pregnant and find the perfect family life. She discovered violet shortly after her start.

Henry-a 40 something year old man who is married to violet

All three of these have one person in common. Violet, the YouTube sensation who has become a voice for woman with post natal depression. Well loved in the online community

All three of the main characters also aren’t what they appear on the surface. They all have their secrets. All of which are nicely unraveled in the back and forth stories. This book had everything needed to make it a good book. A satisfying ending that ties the entire book in a nice bow and reward the reader for sticking through. I just loved this book.

It’s not suspenseful per say but it’s intriguing and makes you wonder exactly what these people are truly hiding. Though I will say one piece of the puzzle was easily able to figure out well before it was revealed. However I still enjoyed the ride.

Thanks to NetGalley for this ARC

The story is told by 3 different characters. . The synopsis grabbed me from the start. I absolutely loved it. Full of twists , and a topic so related to todays world "SOCIAL MEDIA" . It was great to read and i look forward to reading more of Charlottes books.