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Follow Me Back Kindle Edition

by A.V. Geiger (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 361 ratings
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"Follow Me Back is the perfect mix of fandom with just the right amount of suspense. An enthralling page turner from beginning to end." --Anna Todd, New York Times bestselling author of the After series
Tessa Hart's world feels very small. Confined to her bedroom with agoraphobia, her one escape is the online fandom for pop sensation Eric Thorn. When he tweets to his fans, it's like he's speaking directly to her...
Eric Thorn is frightened by his obsessive fans. They take their devotion way too far. It doesn't help that his PR team keeps posting to encourage their fantasies.
When a fellow pop star is murdered at the hands of a fan, Eric knows he has to do something to shatter his online image fast--like take down one of his top Twitter followers. But Eric's plan to troll @TessaHeartsEric unexpectedly evolves into an online relationship deeper than either could have imagined. And when the two arrange to meet IRL, what should have made for the world's best episode of Catfish takes a deadly turn...
Told through tweets, direct messages, and police transcripts, this thriller for the online generation will keep you guessing right up to the shocking end.
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    Follow Me Back
  2. Print length
    370 pages
  3. Language
    English
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  5. Publisher
    Sourcebooks Fire
  6. Publication date
    June 6, 2017
  7. Reading age
    14 - 17 years
  8. Grade level
    8 - 12
  9. File size
    2013 KB
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Gr 10 Up—Tessa Hart (@TessaHeartsEric) is 18, severely agoraphobic, and an Eric Thorn fan—some may call her #obsessed. Most of Tessa's human interaction comes through sessions with her therapist, who makes house calls, and Twitter. The teen doesn't leave her bedroom. Mystery surrounds the circumstances that got her there and her new Twitter friend, Taylor (@EricThornSucks). Eric Thorn is a popular, adored, and somewhat narcissistic pop star recently made leery of the adoration since a fellow pop star was killed by a fervent fan. In a moment of resentment, Eric creates @EricThornSucks under his middle name, Taylor, and ends up striking up a friendship with Tessa, which unfolds via direct message on Twitter. A nonlinear account of Tessa and Eric's relationship develops, jumping back and forth from past to present, and readers are privy to both characters' perspectives and to the transcript from Eric's police interview. This is a moderately paced, character-focused story in which familiarity with Twitter is helpful but not necessary. Fuzzy details cloud the tale as pieces are revealed one at a time until they all come together at the end—right before everything falls apart before a final, dark twist. VERDICT A page-turner for young adults invested in social media, fandoms, and mysteries.—Sara Jurek, Children's English Library, Stuttgart, Germany

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"Pieces are revealed one at a time until they all come together at the end―right before everything falls apart before a final, dark twist. A page-turner for young adults invested in social media, fandoms, and mysteries." ― School Library Journal

"Debut author Geiger’s social-media-saturated thriller (which fittingly got its start on Wattpad) should transfix teens for whom online relationships (romantic and otherwise) are integral parts of daily life, and catfishing and hacking are genuine fears. Tweets, direct messages, and police interrogation transcripts are incorporated throughout, throwing the reliability of both narrators into question and hinting at the sinister thread underlying this boy-meets-girl story. " ― Publishers Weekly

"Told though alternating points of view, tweets, and police reports, this novel is perfect for fans of Sara Shepard, April Henry, or Kimberly Derting. In her debut novel, Geiger creates a rich horror story which is all the more intriguing because of its conceivable possibilities. Using fan culture and social media communications to the best effect, she makes the setting and plot convincingly real." ― VOYA Magazine

"This is a unique concept that will be well-received by older teens. The ending seems disjointed until the reader realizes it is so open-ended and mysterious that the reader is left wanting more. It is well written and covers some real dangers surrounding social media and predators." ― School Library Connection

Product details

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01N4TJ3N3
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sourcebooks Fire (June 6, 2017)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 6, 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2013 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 370 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1492645230
  • Customer Reviews:
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A.V. Geiger is the author of YA thrillers FOLLOW ME BACK and TELL ME NO LIES. Her next book SCARED LITTLE RABBITS will release in December 2019. An epidemiologist by training, she has always enjoyed a professional life that combines both creativity and logic. Learn more about this author at www.avgeiger.com.

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Erin
5.0 out of 5 stars Decent story!
Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2022
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I really enjoyed this book. The authors writing is very good and easy to flow with as you read. I appreciated that I also was genuinely excited for book 2 . I’ll look forward to her other books especially ones about fans dating someone like Eric :)

I also thought it was so fun to be able to type in URLs and see photos etc. that made it very fun and immersive
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4.0 out of 5 stars A light YA thriller
Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2017
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Teen celebrity Eric Thorn is constantly on edge after another celebrity was murdered by a crazed fan. He's worried the same thing will happen to him, and he feels forced by his producers, manager, and record label into being a teen heartthrob who constantly takes his shirt off. All he wants is to live a normal life.

After a terrifying experience a few months earlier, Tessa Hart has developed severe agoraphobia and won't leave her house. She spends the majority of her time in her room, obsessing over Eric Thorn. After she writes a fan fiction story about Eric that goes viral, Tessa is now "internet famous" with Eric's fan base.

When Eric decides to create a fake twitter account under the name of Taylor to troll his fans in hopes that they'll realize he isn't that great and leave him alone, he ends up messaging Tessa and what starts as a harassing message to her ends in a friendship...until feelings start to develop. When Tessa and "Taylor" agree to finally meet, Eric can't wait to reveal to Tessa who he really is. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned, and what should have been an exciting meeting ends up being more dangerous than either of them could have predicted...

Told partly through a series of tweets and police interviews, Follow Me Back is a young adult thriller that will leave you questioning everything by the end.

I have to say, I enjoyed this book a lot more than I thought I would when I first started reading it. In the first third or so of the book, I found Eric incredibly whiny and ungrateful, and it made the chapters in his point of view super hard to read. His thought process seemed to weird to me...creating a fake twitter profile to talk badly about himself? I can't imagine any celebrity doing that in real life, but who knows. While I understand he was concerned for his safety after what happened to a different celebrity, it seemed like he took his reactions to the extreme, and that made him unlikeable...at first.

After I got over the initial disbelief of the fake twitter account thing and kept reading, I grew to like Eric as his relationship with Tessa deepened and we got to see a better side of him. He was able to open up to Tessa in a way he doesn't open up to anyone else, and she brought out the best in him, so instead of constantly whining or complaining about his life, we found him smiling when talking to Tessa, and I liked that.

For the most part, I liked Tessa, but found some of her reactions a little extreme too. The entire time she was talking to "Taylor" she assumed she was talking to a girl, without ever asking or clarifying, and when she found out Taylor was actually a man, she freaked out because she felt misled. Nothing in their message exchanges made an effort to hide or trick her into thinking Taylor was a girl, so her reaction bothered me. Eventually she got over it, but I felt like that was an overreaction on her part.

The book really picked up at the end, and some of the pieces finally came together about what happened in Tessa's past, and the last page left me totally shocked. The book did leave off on a cliffhanger, and the sequel isn't slated to come out until sometime in 2018, and I can't wait! If the sequel had already been out, I would have started reading it immediately. I have so many unanswered questions, and I imagine they'll get answered in book two.

Overall, if you like YA and you like light thrillers, this may be a good choice for you. It's fast paced, and definitely reads like a YA book. This was a 4 star read for me. Thank you to Netgalley, A.V. Geiger, and Sourcebooks Fire for an advanced copy of the book. It was my pleasure to provide an honest review.
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M.C. Roman
5.0 out of 5 stars Page-turning thriller
Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2017
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Follow Me Back had me completely hooked from beginning to end! I simply couldn't put it down and binge read it within a day. A.V. Geiger's storytelling is superb, and the use of police transcripts and social media within the story only makes it that much more compelling.

I first read this book on Wattpad. I then had the opportunity of reading an ARC of the published version and I can only say great things. It includes a ton of brand new chapters, fleshed out scenes, and a deeper dive into the characters (both main and secondary). It's a real page-turner and one of those books that as soon as you finish it, you find yourself flipping back through the pages and wanting to re-read it all over again. Highly recommend!
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Pete Tarsi
3.0 out of 5 stars Fun structure to follow, but back-ended with one too many twists
Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2017
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I had just finished a book, and I had almost a week before another highly anticipated book was going to be released, so I wanted something I could easily read in the interim. Rather than search for something new, I searched through the backlog on my Kindle. Somewhere along the way, I downloaded this book, which had been on my to-read list, and probably was on sale at some point or another.

I was intrigued that the author had posted an earlier version of this story at Wattpad first. As a self-published author, I find the story of this book getting published truly inspiring, and I wish A.V. Geiger all sorts of good fortune because there’s a solid and timely premise within Follow Me Back—a novel about two older teens trapped within their individual and very different lives.

First, there’s Tessa Hart. She was supposed to be starting college, but due to an incident—which I won’t spoil—she suffers from severe anxiety and agoraphobia. Instead of interacting with others out in the real world, she interacts online, particularly via Twitter, where she’s an avid follower of teen singing sensation Eric Thorn.

Though Eric loves making and performing his music, he’s not a fan of the publicity stunts he’s forced to endure for his fans, and he’s definitely not happy with the way he perceives his fans being more interested in his looks (super sculpted abs, apparently) than in his music. With no way in reality for Eric to escape the demands of his contract, he creates a fake Twitter account where he can engage in some Eric-Thorn-bashing.

And that’s how the two of them start communicating, although Tessa has no idea it’s actually Eric on the other end. Given the multiple fandoms that occur online, and the number of people who create multiple accounts for different purposes including hiding their identities, I find the setup plausible. There are appropriate references to internet stalking and catfishing (leading someone on with a false identity and then vanishing) as the drama escalated within their relationship and their individual lives.

This was a quick read. The third-person narration bounces back and forth between Tessa and Eric, which makes sense since they aren’t physically interacting in the same space. It’s a decent structure, but what worked even more for me were the interludes consisting of fragments of police investigation transcripts dated New Year’s Eve—separate interviews with Tessa and Eric. Something happened that night, and waiting to find out what as the pieces are slowly revealed definitely help propel the reader forward through the book.

I don’t suffer from the anxiety and PTSD that Tessa does, and I’m no rock star, but I found their characters relatable. Their narration does get repetitive at times, as we are often told instead of shown what their motivations for being in their online relationship are. I guess it would be challenging to show much when they’re both alone inside their worlds, but I wished for a little more.

However, none of the other characters were particularly deep. Tessa has a boyfriend who’s a jerk. Eric has a manager who’s somewhat controlling and smarmy. Tessa’s mother is practically non-existent and not supportive of all of what Tessa has been through or is going through. Eric’s other fans, including some that Tessa tweets with, are mere facades, which makes sense given the theme of online personas and anonymity. And then there’s Tessa’s therapist, who I have difficulty believing because of a choice she makes late in the book.

But more problematic for me is the ending—and I mean the ending and not the resolution. I thought the reveal of the police investigation was well resolved, but the final events that occur in the book…well, they just baffle me. It felt so out of left field. If the ending is meant to make the reader question what happened to entice reading the upcoming sequel, I’m still not sure if I buy it.

And so I’m torn. The story’s premise and structure were a lot of fun to follow, but due to too much telling and an unforeshadowed ending, I’m debating whether I’ll be back for the sequel. Until then, Follow Me Back gets THREE AND A HALF STARS.
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Catherine D
5.0 out of 5 stars Worth Your Attention
Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2017
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I did not expect to be as thrilled by this book as I was. Honestly, I bought it because it was cheap and I needed to kill time, but I found myself sucked in. As a fangirl and a hearthrob romance, it kind of balances the edge of being cheesy and cheap or intriguing and smart. Luckily the author handles it so well, making both characters interesting enough to keep reading, until you're locked into a thriller that you don't want to put down. The epilogue killed me, and I'll be keeping an eye out for any new books from A. V. Geiger.
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Katie Stoddart
5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible book!
Reviewed in Canada on August 4, 2017
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Super great book! I read this originally on Wattpad and needed to have the real paperback... Totally worth every penny!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Superb and amazing
Reviewed in India on July 26, 2018
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Simply superb and amazing. Just shocking and keeps u at the edge. Cannot keep the book down and makes u feel so many emotions
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Atahana
4.0 out of 5 stars Un scénario plus étoffé et intriguant qu'au premier abord
Reviewed in France on July 4, 2017
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Je me suis lancée dans ce roman "Young Adult" sans en connaître vraiment la teneur, sur recommandation. Je n'aime guère en général les pages entières de SMS ou, ici, de tweets. A vrai dire, je n'ai jamais utilisé Twitter.

Mais AV Geiger gère bien cette communication via réseaux sociaux, sans que cela ne soit indigeste. Nous découvrons une héroïne fragile, cloîtrée dans sa chambre depuis un événement traumatique dont on ne sait rien.
Traumatisée ou pas, elle reste une adolescente, un peu égoïste, centrée sur sa personne, conséquence de son enfermement pour partie. Twitter et plus précisément une communauté de fans d'un jeune chanteur constituent sa seule échappatoire.

Les fans ont quelque chose d'effrayant, le temps passé à écrire ces courts messages un peu vides encore plus. C'est aussi ce pense Eric Thorn, le chanteur/rock star adulé mais déjà désabusé (à seulement 18 ans et après 2 ans de succès? j'ai trouvé qu'il aurait dû être un peu plus âgé pour que cela soit plus crédible).
Et ses fans? Pas sa tasse de thé.

Il va entrer en contact avec Tessa sur la toile et de là se déroule une histoire entre deux gens perdus (bon, beaux tous les deux, sans aspérité, on reste "dans la norme" ici).

Mais le livre va au-delà d'une histoire d'amitié ou de romance et sombre dans des eaux plus dangereuses. La fin m'a laissée pantoise. J'ai dû relire les derniers chapitres et m'apercevoir en effectuant une recherche qu'un tome deux était prévu...La fin nous laisse sur notre faim.

Une belle réflexion sur l'importance des réseaux sociaux dans la vie des jeunes, dès le début de l'adolescence, sur le côté viral des messages et les mensonges qui peuvent être véhiculés ainsi. Je me suis promis d'éduquer mes enfants aux réseaux sociaux afin qu'ils soient capables de comprendre non seulement qu'il faut un équilibre entre internet et vie "concrète" mais aussi qu'ils soient capables de s'interroger sur la véracité des informations déversées en masse, sur l'effet "groupe" et harcèlement de ce type de média. Cela commencera évidemment par l'exemplarité!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Pazzesco!!!
Reviewed in Italy on October 4, 2017
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L'ha letto mia figlia di sedici anni e me ne ha parlato cosi tanto che ho deciso di provarlo anche io. La storia e molto piacevole da leggere, anche per chi non e necessariamente madrelingua inglese. E una riflessione sul comportamento di molte "fan girl" rispetto ai loro idoli. E originale nel suo modo di scrittura, poiche una grande parte del testo e scritto sotto forma di tweets. Un romanzo unico che mostra il debutto di quella che sara sicuramente una grande scrittrice. :)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended to all. A must read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 26, 2018
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A tale of Tessa who is traumatised by a mysterious event in the summer has secluded herself in her room, her only contact is fellow twitter fans of pop star Eric Taylor Thorn. Eric Thorn is getting more frustrated with his life being out of his control. He turns to twitter and strikes up a private messaging with Tessa but under his middle name Taylor so noone knows who he really is. Noone could have predicted the outcome. I originally read this on wattpad and was addicted then. This final edited version was worth the wait.

So many plot twists, if you're anything like me I didn't see the end coming.
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