Defriended by Ruth Baron
The book I decided to read (at least most of it) was Defriended by Ruth Baron. Barons' book is a horror book based upon the main character Jason and on his online crush Lacey. The thing that caught Jason's attention about Lacey was her profile picture. From then on he requested to follow her on Facebook and they start chatting away for hours a day. Lacey seems to be the perfect one in Jason's eye, she likes indie music, knows how to play the guitar, and loves quoting cheesy 80s films. Everything seems to be going fine until Jason wants to meet up with Lacey. However she refuses every single time, so he gets tired of that and does his own investigations or "cyber stalking" on her and finds out that something is terribly wrong with Lacey. She was found dead after a house party gone wrong over a year ago. Jason was left with an unsettling feeling in his stomach and dumbfound as to who would pull such a disturbing prank on him. That was until Lacey changed her status to deceased.
I chose to read this book because it was Halloween season and I wanted to get in the spirit, this book for sure did the trick and was a treat to read. Through out the chapters the author is always making the reader wonder and wiggle in seat. It is full of intense moments and makes the reader feel as if they are experiencing it for themselves. Teens who have had an online crush i'm not so sure about the whole being dead and receiving a message from that person can relate to it in some way or another. Although, the end of the book wasn't reached due to being scared out of my socks it was a really good book overall and from what I've heard of.
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