People Like Her
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"Beyond being a brilliant skewering of social media and influencer culture, People Like Her is, quite simply, a damn good thriller . . . With three unreliable narrators, the novel reads like Gone Girl on steroids in all the best ways.”— Bookreporter “Breathlessly fast, brilliantly original. Bravo, Ellery Lloyd!”—Clare Mackintosh, New York Times bestselling author of After the End From the New York Times bestselling author of The Club, a razor-sharp, wickedly smart suspense debut about an ambitious influencer mom whose soaring success threatens her marriage, her morals, and her family’s safety. Followed by Millions, Watched by One To her adoring fans, Emmy Jackson, aka @the_mamabare, is the honest “Instamum” who always tells it like it is. To her skeptical husband, a washed-up novelist who knows just how creative Emmy can be with the truth, she is a breadwinning powerhouse chillingly brilliant at monetizing the intimate details of their family life. To one of Emmy’s dangerously obsessive followers, she’s the woman that has everything—but deserves none of it. As Emmy’s marriage begins to crack under the strain of her growing success and her moral compass veers wildly off course, the more vulnerable she becomes to a very real danger circling ever closer to her family. In this deeply addictive tale of psychological suspense, Ellery Lloyd raises important questions about technology, social media celebrity, and the way we live today. Probing the dark side of influencer culture and the perils of parenting online, People Like Her explores our desperate need to be seen and the lengths we’ll go to be liked by strangers. It asks what—and who—we sacrifice when make our private lives public, and ultimately lose control of who we let in. . . .
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That was a very interesting read into the world of social media influencing and the potential dangers it can pose to you and your family, if you're not careful! Whilst this was a work of fiction, I wouldn't be surprised if it happened in real life.
I didn't really like, Emmy, the instamum/social media influencer in this story, more so after the way she treated her best friend! Without giving too much away, it was appalling! At some points I had to wonder if she cared more about her Insta followers, then she did her own family.
I found myself feeling sorry for Dan, although admittedly they did decide to get into the whole social media influencer thing together. I can't imagine it being much fun being dragged from a photoshoot, to a party, to other similar events, especially with a couple of kids in tow.
The third narrator, was someone who blamed Emmy for the death of her daughter and grand daughter. Initially she didn't seem too harmless despite her obsession with Emmy and her family, but as you went further in the book, she started becoming more menacing and you started worrying for Emmy and her family.
It was a very good read, with plenty of twists and turns. It definitely made me want to keep reading.
Thank you to NetGalley, Pan Macmillan and Ellery Lloyd for the chance to read this book.
Talk about the dark side of social media -and then some. Not only did I enjoy this read but it seriously pulled me in- I wanted to know how her social media stalker was going to reveal herself and how bad that was going to be. Turns out- pretty bad. The main character is super unlikeable in a WOW sort of way. But the husband's narrations are compelling and honest and I really enjoyed his parts. What is particularly great about this book is how of-the-moment the subject matter is- which makes for sharp writing in my opinion.
