💫🥂 The Goldens 🥂💫

• Lauren Wilson @laurenwauthor

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‘In my experience, by the age of eighteen, every girl knows another girl that she would follow to the very ends of the earth.

For me, that girl was Clara Holland.’

The Goldens follows Chloe, an aspiring writer and English major at Dern University. When she befriends charismatic influencer Clara, Chloe is swept into a world of glitzy glamour and revelry. In a whirlwind, Chloe finds herself moving into Clara’s mansion, along with a select few of Clara’s devoted followers. The media frenzy begins writing about cults and rituals. As girls begin to go missing and rumours about Clara’s shrouded past spiral, Chloe starts to wonder; could Clara’s enigmatic persona hide something altogether more sinister and darker beneath its surface?

The reader is swept into this world of champagne and indulgence, designer outfits and exclusive parties alongside Chloe. We simultaneously feel the same sense of awe and admiration for Clara that Chloe does. It probes at toxic female friendships, at that line between romantic and platonic love and adoration, as well as the nature of parasocial relationships, of envy and jealousy and wanting to be someone else, in this chronically online world we live in.

It’s thrilling, twisty, and addictive. Clara Holland is Rebecca de Winter reincarnated in the 21st Century world of social media and influencers. She has that same innate unknowableness, as well as the same enviable charm disguising the vicious rot festering under the surface.

I loved every minute of this and devoured it in record time, so addictive it was! For any fans of Rebecca, YA thrillers or even anyone just wanting a book with a glittering, glamorous aesthetic to die for.

Thank you so much to @HarperFire for the ARC! The Goldens releases June 19th