Such a Bad Influence

Description

A razor-sharp debut thriller about what happens when one of the first child stars of the social media age grows up ... and goes missing. Hazel Davis is drifting: newly unemployed living in a city she hates and significantly less successful than her infamous younger sister Evie. Evie grew up online having gone viral at age five in a daddy-daughter dance video. She had an Instagram following in elementary school and brand sponsorships before she had a drivers permit. Now shes a megapopular lifestyle influencer with a million-dollar career at an age when few teens know what theyre going to major in. But to Hazel @evelyn is just Evie her beloved little sister--and a kid who has been exploited for her entire childhood. Ten years older and spotlight-averse Hazel has managed to dodge the family business but shes deeply protective of Evie and skeptical of the way everyone seems to want a piece of her: Evies followers her YouTuber boyfriend her frenemies across the influencer industry. So when Evie disappears--in the middle of a live stream during a brand-sponsored trip to Los Angeles--Hazel knows something is terribly wrong. Determined to find her sister Hazel throws herself into the darkest parts of internet culture to untangle the threads of truth behind Evies disappearance. After all Hazel knows Evie better than anyone else ... doesnt she? Internet fame the allure of parasocial relationships and some of our deepest cultural obsessions collide in this electric thriller by a debut writer to watch.