I found Follow Me an unpleasant, irritating and unsatisfying read, mainly due to the characters and plot.
The Amateurs, a group of teens who fancied themselves as detectives, having originally met through a web site dealing with unsolved murder cases, lived up to their name, and should have steered well clear of this kidnapping. They were amazingly over-confident and did little but solve puzzles and follow clues sent to them by the kidnapper, endangering themselves and others.
The abilities of the villain on the other hand were quite incredible. He was a master of disguise, arch manipulator, and hacker extraordinaire, apparently able to manufacture watertight false identities and deep clean crime scenes.
It was the mismatch in the abilities of the protagonists that made this so unsatisfactory, as well as the explaining away of implausible plot developments by the use of technology.
Overall the combination of teenage romance and glamorous lifestyle details with horrible crimes made for an unpleasant mixture.
The Amateurs, a group of teens who fancied themselves as detectives, having originally met through a web site dealing with unsolved murder cases, lived up to their name, and should have steered well clear of this kidnapping. They were amazingly over-confident and did little but solve puzzles and follow clues sent to them by the kidnapper, endangering themselves and others.
The abilities of the villain on the other hand were quite incredible. He was a master of disguise, arch manipulator, and hacker extraordinaire, apparently able to manufacture watertight false identities and deep clean crime scenes.
It was the mismatch in the abilities of the protagonists that made this so unsatisfactory, as well as the explaining away of implausible plot developments by the use of technology.
Overall the combination of teenage romance and glamorous lifestyle details with horrible crimes made for an unpleasant mixture.