Friend Request: The most addictive psychological thriller you'll read this year

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I get up and make a coffee, gaining comfort from the ritual of putting the smooth shining pod into the machine, pressing the tip of my finger onto the button in the precise way I always do and warming the milk in the frother. The Goodreads Libra Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The author really knows how to pump up the suspense and tension until your head is spinning, trying to figure out who is telling the truth. It feels as though a sponge has been lodged in my throat, soaking up water, swelling and clogging, leaving me struggling for breath. Authors, if you are a member of the Goodreads Author Program, you can edit information about your own books.

Despite being a fictional thriller, there are definitely real life lessons that we can learn from this book.Yet all the time, in the back of my mind, this one unforgivable act has loomed - squashed, squeezed, parcelled, but always there".

Maybe that had been the problem all along: Maria Weston had wanted to be friends with me, but I let her down. I want to thank the publisher for providing me with a free copy through NetGalley for an honest review! I think many of us have been bullied before, but not to the degree displayed in this book (hopefully).

We know there's something that Louise feels guilty about, something to do with Maria that happened in High School in 1989. Actually, I wasn't too happy with the way "grand finale" was resolved, so easily and kind of unlikely.

But all in all, I had really good time reading Friend Request along with my friends and I would recommend it to thriller lovers. Single mum Louise has spent her entire adult life trying to forget Maria’s death, which changed her forever.She's been hovering at the edge of my consciousness for all of my adult life, although I've been good at keeping her out, just as a blurred shadow in the corner of my eye, almost but not quite out of sight.

The story follows Louise who gets a friend request on Facebook from a friend who died back in 1989, when they were in high school. Laura Marshall has written written a marvelous thriller that hits several hot tops from single parenting and online dating to bullying and social media and she doesn't shy away from these vulnerabilities in the least. If you're a Librarian and want to process requests, please refer to our Librarian Manual to ensure edits are performed in line with Goodreads policies. Odd, how you spend five years going to the same place every day, and then it’s over, you never go there again. But I also saw things that I know must have really hurt people, and I can remember a few "Sophie's".

Women who lived that life at school – who felt like they existed only on the periphery of the popular crowd – are likely to emphasise with her. I wish that I could loosen this secret knot within me, a knot that is tied so tightly I don’t think anyone will ever be able to get their fingers into its intricacies to tug it apart, however hard they try. I know it would freak me out and probably make me stay away from Facebook for days, but of course that wouldn’t make a fast paced psychological thriller though, would it? When Louise first notices the new girl who has mysteriously transferred late into their senior year, Maria seems to be everything the girls Louise hangs out with aren't. While this isn't a book I would reread, I would definitely check out more from this author in the future.