Follow Me Back

 
I received an advanced copy of The Fallen Kingdom from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. 

This book was only okay. The story was pretty simplistic with it mostly focusing around Twitter conversations between the two main characters. Until pretty late in the book, there wasn't all that much going on and I found it hard to stay interested. Plus the background characters were all two dimensional, which is something I just can't stand in a book. We have Tessa's boyfriend Scott who makes no effort to accommodate Tessa's agoraphobia. There's Tessa's mother who is also frustrated by Tessa's agoraphobia. And Eric's manager who makes him work too much and gives him no privacy. And those traits are really all there is to those characters.

Romance-wise, the story idea was pretty cute. But I would have liked it more though if Eric was a bit less of a douche. I can get past him lying about who he is. But he's very determined to date Tessa and cares much more about progressing their relationship than about how what he's doing will affect her. He begs her for selfies knowing that she's scared to show her face to people. He pressures her into signing up for a contest that will require her to go to a concert, knowing she hasn't left her house in months. I'll avoid spoilers but it only gets considerably worse as the book goes on. He cares more about making Tessa his girlfriend than he cares about Tessa's wellbeing. And that's really messed up.

Follow Me Back comes out June 6.