I almost gave up on this one and have mixed feelings - hence the 3 star rating. A very interesting premise - an almost 50 year old divorced French woman creates a fake Facebook profile and befriends a friend/roommate of her ex-boyfriend in an effort to keep tabs on him. An online relationship ensues and the story is told from multiple and very confusing perspectives. Although the confusion of the varying perspectives may have been intentional, it was difficult to follow. Nonetheless, this short novel contains plenty of food for thought regarding social media, online dating, beauty standard differences between men & woman, mental illness etc. ( )

Well...……
this was a very interesting book I will say. The author writes in such a very abstract way that it is a little confusing, or maybe a lot confusing!

The first narrative is of 50 some year old woman who was done wrong by a man and wants to find that love again by stalking through the internet. The internet can be extremely dangerous! "There's a good reason for calling it the Web. One minute you're a spider, the next you're a fly."

I found a quote I liked about finding love on page 51. "Love means electing, not selecting. We'd mutually elected each other." The author has a very unique way of explaining different types of love throughout the novel. That is the only reason why this book would get 2/5 stars. Also in the book, the author stated that in short this is a man's world and it is not fair. Camille said this while she was talking to her therapist. She also mentioned that men always only paid attention to the physical attributes of women. Seems like this character needs to meet different types of men!

Now onto another narrative...the therapist admits to be in love with his patient! Where is this book going? The therapist also tells the board, I guess? that the character feels bad because she feels as if she killed her niece, Katia, by throwing her out of her house which resulted in Katia killing herself.

So now the ending...


Camille is not Camille? Camille is Claire? They are both bonkers in an insane asylum. Camille took Claire's story and distorted it to Camille's liking? Claire has a niece named Katia by the way. Katia is trying to marry Claire's husband! Camille had an affair, and a psychotic affair with Chris in real life and online. She was taken advantage of because she wanted love so much that she gave this young kid everything while he was so mean and hurt her physically.

It was a very interesting novel now that I reflect upon it. I will still only give it 2 stars. ( )