Book Review: ‘Follow Me: A Novel’ By Kathleen Barber

Audrey Miller is an Instagram Influencer. She has millions of devoted followers. But one of them is obsessed with her and says she will be his.

Audrey lives in New York but has gotten a good job at a museum in D.C. as head of social media. She’s excited by this new job and she also has a couple of friends in the city. Her old college friend Cat, who she stays with a night. Cat has issues and always was/is jealous of Audrey and how she seems to get so many men interested in her. And her ex-boyfriend and sometimes booty call Nick, who she starts sleeping with again.

Audrey has a stalker who is following her around, peeking in her bedroom window (she lives in a basement apartment), secretly gets her to download a spying app on her laptop and even breaking into her apartment. Audrey knows something is up and starts to get scared. Soon Audrey meets a new man and grows fond of him. And whoever is the stalker is close to her. It could be a few different guys in her life and she’s not sure who to trust or could it even be Cat? Soon she learns the awful truth and it may be too late for her.

This is an okay novel. It had its moments but in the end it seemed obvious who it was. The story is told in a cool way as each chapter is told from the perspective of either Cat, Audrey and Him (the stalker).

You can pick up Follow Me in stores on Tuesday, February 25th from Gallery Books.