Copycat by Alex Lake

Oh dear, this was a disaster of a book from start to finish.  Sorry, but it was.

There was little in the way of suspense as it was pretty clear from the outset who the "stalker" was and all the angst and soul searching was never going to change that or divert the readers attention from what was so blatantly obvious.  The whole premise was verging on the ridiculous - okay I could get behind the fake profile and how disturbing it would be to have someone else pretending to be you and documenting your life "as it happens" but that, by it's very nature severely limits the suspects.  Once we got past that and started getting packages delivered from online retailers that had supposedly been bought by our heroine my internal eye rolling commenced in earnest.  From there on it just gets worse and worse with the final reveal making me want to throw my eReader against the wall.

The plot is not helped by a series of unlikeable characters.  We are supposed to empathise with Sarah but all I wanted to do was slap her - she is the very definition of weak.  Her husband is well thinly characterised would be the best way of putting it; maybe the more honest way would be one dimensional.  If you really thought your wife was losing the plot would you really stand so many paces back from it that you can barely see her?

Poorly realised plotline that is trying to cash in on people's inherent mistrust of social media and feeding in to that paranoia.