Name: Click: A gripping, page-turning new psychological thriller for 2019
ISBN: 9780008314101

L. Smyth

STRANGER. FRIEND. OR ENEMY? You never really know who you’re talking to online... A page-turning psychological thriller that will creep under your skin. The perfect read for fans of FRIEND REQUEST and HE SAID/SHE SAID.

Click: A gripping, page-turning new psychological thriller for 2019

Ruth Parker 

This book opens your eyes to the terrifying world of social media and online presence. It is easy to forget that everything you put online stays there forever, accessible by many more than you realise. 

Eva is a new university student, struggling to make friends on her course. She is a little strange and people are turned off by her and her attitudes. Until she makes friends with Marina, someone even more weird than herself. She soon starts to hang out with Marina and her friends and becomes obsessive over their relationship. During Christmas break, Eva doesn't hear much from Marina and decides to embark on her own extra curricular activity - internet dating. She creates a profile bu decides to use Marina's image instead of her own. Soon things get out of hand and she decides to delete the profile, worried about what might happen when Marina finds out. But she never will. Because Marina died before the profile was even created. Eva is suddenly thrust into a world she never thought possible, where people believe the worst in her by pretending to be a dead girl and even thinking she perhaps had something to do with Marina's death.

This book was labelled as a psychological thriller, which I understand, however I felt like the term thriller is used quite loosely. For me there is no big reveal and very few twists and turns. Instead this is a social commentary on internet usage and goes on to show that no one is safe from what happens online.

I enjoyed the book, despite the fact that i didn't like the main character. I found Eva very annoying and unlikable and I found myself frustrated with her actions and wondering how she thought she might be doing the right thing. At any point. To me it was clear she was being foolish, but she didn't seem to understand the repercussions of her actions. In fact, none of the characters are likable. Henry is despicable. Marina is awful. I just wanted to shake all of their privilege out of them and set them down to work their way up from the bottom of the ladder. 

The unlikable characters didn't ruin the story, however and I felt that it was in fact believable and the ending was a great... twist, for want of a better word. To me it wasn't a twist. I felt like it was set up from near the start and it was very predictable, but I guess twist is the word to use!

Click: A gripping, page-turning new psychological thriller for 2019

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