Publish Date: September 5th 2017
Read Date: 08/12/2018 - 08/19/2018
Louise Williams is a divorced single mother to 4 year old Henry. Like most people Louise Williams uses Facebook to keep in contact with friends from high school, work and family and to post pictures of her son.
Jumping back and forth between present day - 2016 and high school days -1989, Louise explains how the death of Maria came to happen. It was prom, there was pranks, and there were drugs. Louise and her best friend Sophia had a plan to slip Maria some drugs as a prank.
In 1989 Louise is in High school. After years of being left out in school, Louise is now friends with the popular girl, Sophia and her crew. In comes new student Maria. Transferred from a different school district, with rumors that followed her. Louise and Maria became friends, though Louise was never able to learn the truth behind the rumors following Maria. Being high school kids. the other students are only happy to spread around the rumors. Eventually, Louise harshly breaks off the friendship with Maria. As quickly as high school goes by, it is soon prom time. Louise, Sophia and their group decide that they are going to play a prank on Maria during prom and spike her drink with drugs. They never expected Maria to react badly and run off into the woods, and never be seen again.
One seemingly uninteresting day in present day 2016, Louise gets an email so she checks it as she would any other. It's a Facebook friend request from Maria, except there is no way that Louise can be getting a friend request from her. Maria has been dead since high school. Louise knows this to be certain, after all she was part of the plan.. Louise is startled and confused by the request, but decides to accept to see where it goes. Shortly after, Louise begins to get cryptic, threatening messages from Marias Facebook account. Maria uses the friend request and the messages to connect with high school friends lost through the years in an attempt to find out who else has received Marias friend request and if theirs came with messages also. It is through facebook , and the re-connection of old friends that Louise learns of the planned high school reunion.
While at the reunion a classmate dies, sparking an investigation. Old memories are brought up. Louise is scared of her involvement in the death of Maria coming out, so she scrambles to hide it as best as she can.
In the end, Louise learns the truth about the death of Maria, and the classmate at the reunion and its not at all what she expected.
*** Personal note: This book was an easy read, but I did not find it exactly enjoyable. The characters were hard to connect with, and the story line slow. There was also random entries that could be an blog post or a diary entry, and the writer is never explained. They didn't fit with the rest of the story.
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