Review of "Friend Request: The most addictive psychological thriller you'll read this year" on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
I can't really review a book I did not finish, but having made my way through 60% of the kindle edition I found that there wasn't enough here to keep me engaged.
Louise (main character) whinges and whines, and the High School aspect of the story feels as if it's been lifted from an American soap. It has a number of tired cliches, but Marshall does a wonderful job of making the world feel real through concise descriptions (only, not when the text moves back into the past).
It is certainly fast-paced, but the reader is strung along for far too long in the first half of the book. It felt linear, and that seemed unlikely to change as I passed the half-way mark.
