Title: Clickbait

Author: L. C. North

Genre: Thriller

Publisher: Bantam

Publication Date: 11th April 2024

Rating: 4/5

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Book Summary:

‘We’re not famous anymore. We’re notorious.’

For over a decade, the Lancasters were celebrity royalty, with millions tuning in every week to watch their reality show, Living with the Lancasters.

But then an old video emerges of one of their legendary parties. Suddenly, they’re in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons: witnesses swore they’d seen missing teenager Bradley Wilcox leaving the Lancaster family home on the night of the party, but the video tells a different story

Now true crime investigator and YouTuber Tom Isaac is on the case. He’s determined to find out what really happened to Bradley – he just needs to read between the Lancasters’ lies . . .

Because when the cameras are always rolling, it won’t be long until someone cracks.

Review:

If I were to describe Clickbait in one word, it would have to be ‘bingeable’. It is the perfect example of a book that is so easy and enjoyable to devour in a few hours. Full of intrigue, drama, scandal and a cast of characters that are mostly pretty hard to like but weirdly fun to read about. The entire book is told in the form of podcast episodes, news stories and social media comments which is a style I’ve seen a few times now and I think it works perfectly for this kind of story – where you don’t know who is lying and who is manipulating who. It makes the reader feel like part of the story, making their mind up about who is truly guilty here, and of what. The Lancasters are a sort of Kardashian-esque family with their own reality tv show who find themselves at the heart of a decades old missing persons case. A podcaster (who comes across pretty fame-hungry himself) begins to investigate their involvement in the case as new evidence comes to light. I found Clickbait fabulously fun to read – I was totally enthralled by these egocentric people and the shifting tide of public opinion of them. A fast, clever and compelling thriller full of dark wit and deviousness – I would definitely recommend adding Clickbait to your TBR.

★★★★

Thank you so much to Anne Cater of Random Things Blog Tours for inviting me on this tour and organising it. I kindly received a copy of the book from the publisher. My review is entirely my own honest opinion.

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