Followers started off very strong with great writing about loneliness, wanting to be accepted, to have friends, to be followed, to be someone. It explores two women in New York as they struggle with their fledging careers. If it had stayed in this vein, I would have given it five stars.

Yet it veered of course, with interesting additional plots about hackers taking down the internet and revealing people's deepest secrets, about a community where everyone lives on camera, and a community where information technology has been banned. Each of these could have made good plots, but to interweave all of this with what had started off as a promising novel, together with sections that felt like they were written with middle aged female tabloid readers really weakened the novel.

Still, it is worth the read. Read the first part, and if, it keeps your interest, continue on to the end.