Meme

De: Aaron Starmer

Narrado por: Sophie Amoss, Michael Crouch, Alex McKenna, Everette Plen

A tense, psychological thriller for the internet age about the destructive combination of self-important goals and self-serving plans.

Cole Weston - former friend, former boyfriend - has become dangerous, erratic. Something needs to be done. Getting rid of Cole is practically a public service. So high school seniors Holly Morse, Grayson Hobbs, Logan Bailey, and Meeka Miller devise a plan. Kill Cole. Bury him in the woods behind Meeka's house. Bury him deep, deep in the ground along with four old cell phones, wiped except for their video confession as insurance that no one will ever betray the group. Everything is perfect, until the meme appears. It's a screenshot from their confession...a confession that's supposed to be entombed with Cole forever in the cold Vermont dirt.

©2020 Aaron Starmer (P)2020 Listening Library

Awful, all I can say

So many things to not like about this. That narrator, Everett Plen made it worse. What other people said about unlikable characters doesn't bother me really. I mean they are extremely unlikable people.

The book in general is pretentious and feels awkward. Written by a middle aged man trying to write about teens. Like he felt he was the qualified expert to write about privilege, "toxic masculinity" and the darker parts of the web. I can tell you he isn't.

I struggled through it to the end even though it was pretty transparent how the end would go. Save the credits or money and skip this trainwreck.