Friday Fiction: Pretty Little Things by Jilliane Hoffman

Beware the Internet
Review by Kim Cantrell

Lainey Emerson is thirteen years old.

But online she’s 16.

According to her MySpace account, anyway.

And it’s there she meets up with 17-year-old Zach Cusano, who calls himself ElCaptain. He’s handsome, a star jock, and, best of all, he likes Lainey.

When ElCaptain asks LainBrain, Lainey’s online persona, to meet up with him after school one Friday afternoon, she readily agrees.

What greets Lainey, however, isn’t a 17-year-old baseball star.

After all, just ask the 16 year old Lainey, anyone can be who they want to be…

Online.

When I was approached to read an advanced copy of international bestseller Jilliane Hoffman’s upcoming book Pretty Little Things, I was intrigued.

To say the book is intriguing now, would be an understandment.

Let me put it this way: Oh wow! Oh wow! Oh wow! Oh wow!

From the very first page to the last, I couldn’t put this book down!

I’m going to skip all the technical jargon such as well-developed plots, fast-paced, strong characters – blah, blah, blah, blah, you’ve heard all that – and get straight the point: if you’re a parent, this book will scare the bejeezus out of you!

Truthfully, you don’t even have to be a parent. If you spend any time online – and apparently you do since you’re reading this, you’ll never approach a chat room, discussion forum, or social networking site with the same mindset again.

Pretty Little Things will most definitely be on the top 100 list of suspense thrillers for 2010. If you read any fiction at all, do not miss this one!

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