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Oh I so wanted to love this book. "Maria Weston wants to be friends. But Maria Weston's dead. Isn't she?" That just so peaked my interest. But I think I am in the minority on this when I say it was okay. I liked it, but didn't love it.

Louise gets a message that Maria Weston wants to be friend on Facebook. But Maria died in 1989. The memories from that year of school and the prom, that Louise has been trying to forget come flooding back. Who is this person? Do they know the truth of what really happened at the Prom in 1989? Louise always thought that just her and her friends Sam, Matt and Sophie knew what happened. But what if someone else knows. It could ruin Louise and she could go to jail and lose her son Henry.

This books jumps between 1989 and 2016.
The 1989 chapters follow what happened during the school year after Maria transferred to the school with Louise. And at first she was friends with Maria, but Louise so wanted to be in the popular crowd, and when rumors started going around about why Maria had to transfer, Louise joined her friends in bullying Maria. And man did they bully her. And at the Prom Louise and her friends did something horrible to Maria. And then Maria went missing from the prom and it was assumed that she had fallen off the cliff behind the school and died. This part of the book brought back memories of when I was in HS, Not that I was bullied or bullied anyone. But just the memories of how we all wanted to fit in.

The 2016 chapters are the present (duh) and all the fall out that is now going on with Louise from the friend request from a dead girl, as she tries to piece together what happened all those years ago and what is going on now. She cannot really talk to anyone about the request and what happened 27 years ago. She has not kept in contact with her friends from school. And her friends now have no idea what she had done and she does not want them to find out. And I get it, you messed up royally in school but when you keep getting messages from a dead girl and then they start including your son, I think it is time to come clean for his safety.

Like I said, I liked the book but didn't love it. I liked the chapter from 1989 better than the 2016 ones.
The book started off good, but then it got to the point that it felt like it was dragging on and on. And I really did not like any of the main characters. I didn't guess what was really going on until just before it was revealed. And even though when it was revealed I was like Whoa didn't see that coming, and while I liked the turn the story took, the whole "reveal" part just kind of fell flat.


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Friend Request edition by Laura Marshall Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews

A little insight into English society, the long term effects of childhood taunts, a missing woman, and how social media influences our relationships made the perfect thriller!

Maria Weston ruthlessly tormented by peers upon transferring to another school was a bit like Phoebe Prince, an Irish transfer student to South Hadley in Massachusetts, tormented by her classmates to the point she ended her own life.

A Friend Request from a classmate long presumed dead sends main character Louise Williams, a divorced mom who has long since built her own life & prospered in her interior design business, into reliving the final night she saw her former friend and finding out what happened to her.

Ending dragged out a bit long, and at least once I couldn’t tell whose point of view the story was being told. A scary twist at the very end would have been fun.

But other than the ending of this novel, Laura Marshall shows promise as an author. So grab some tea and cookies and get ready for a good fright with “Friend Request”.
I loved this book. It is well written, current and gripping in that the story is both utterly believable and in these days of social media dominating our lives, probable too.
It is a story told in two different time frames. 1989 when unkind bullying of a teenager (Maria) takes place at school and 2016 when one of the people(Louise) who bullied her gets a friend request from Maria. The problem is that the night of the leavers’ party 27 years before, Maria went missing and pronounced dead by the police.
Louise continues to get disturbing messages via Facebook from Maria and this forms the thrilling part of the story as the reader is drawn into the events that have shaped the lives of those involved. I liked the character of Ester who shows that it’s not impossible to rise above unkindness and go on to good things. The best revenge truly is to become successful.
This is on one level a good read for those who think bullying is a harmless childish stage that will be grown out of. On another level, it is a lesson to keep one’s business reasonably private instead of publishing it for all to read. The desire to have countless ‘friends’ and evoke an unrealistic portrayal of one’s like in the pursuit of making oneself more desirable also forms an undercurrent. In 1989 this took the form of being in the popular clique at school. In 2016 it seems to have been taken over to a certain degree by Facebook.
Deeply disturbing and enlightening at the same time, don’t believe that people just get over hurt they experience as youngsters. Neither do those close to them.
An absolutely enthralling read!

As a long-time reader of the suspense/thriller genre, I can definitely say with some authority that Laura Marshall is a bright, new voice in literature. This is a very well-written, well laid out novel. It bounces back and forth between Louise's perspectives in 1989 and in 2016. I always find this to be a very effective technique. Also included in the book are the occasional inner-thoughts from an unknown source. I truly thought I knew who this source was...I was totally wrong (well done, Ms. Marshall)!

While I was able to figure out one portion of the story, the other twist completely escaped me. I LOVE when a book stumps me. Honestly, my one and only complaint is this...if you're getting threatening messages from a Facebook "friend," why not just delete and block them? Of course, I guess that wouldn't make for a very interesting story, eh?

Overall, if you're looking for a very well-developed whodunit, this book is for you!
Oh I so wanted to love this book. "Maria Weston wants to be friends. But Maria Weston's dead. Isn't she?" That just so peaked my interest. But I think I am in the minority on this when I say it was okay. I liked it, but didn't love it.

Louise gets a message that Maria Weston wants to be friend on Facebook. But Maria died in 1989. The memories from that year of school and the prom, that Louise has been trying to forget come flooding back. Who is this person? Do they know the truth of what really happened at the Prom in 1989? Louise always thought that just her and her friends Sam, Matt and Sophie knew what happened. But what if someone else knows. It could ruin Louise and she could go to jail and lose her son Henry.

This books jumps between 1989 and 2016.
The 1989 chapters follow what happened during the school year after Maria transferred to the school with Louise. And at first she was friends with Maria, but Louise so wanted to be in the popular crowd, and when rumors started going around about why Maria had to transfer, Louise joined her friends in bullying Maria. And man did they bully her. And at the Prom Louise and her friends did something horrible to Maria. And then Maria went missing from the prom and it was assumed that she had fallen off the cliff behind the school and died. This part of the book brought back memories of when I was in HS, Not that I was bullied or bullied anyone. But just the memories of how we all wanted to fit in.

The 2016 chapters are the present (duh) and all the fall out that is now going on with Louise from the friend request from a dead girl, as she tries to piece together what happened all those years ago and what is going on now. She cannot really talk to anyone about the request and what happened 27 years ago. She has not kept in contact with her friends from school. And her friends now have no idea what she had done and she does not want them to find out. And I get it, you messed up royally in school but when you keep getting messages from a dead girl and then they start including your son, I think it is time to come clean for his safety.

Like I said, I liked the book but didn't love it. I liked the chapter from 1989 better than the 2016 ones.
The book started off good, but then it got to the point that it felt like it was dragging on and on. And I really did not like any of the main characters. I didn't guess what was really going on until just before it was revealed. And even though when it was revealed I was like Whoa didn't see that coming, and while I liked the turn the story took, the whole "reveal" part just kind of fell flat.