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Review: VIRAL, Helen FitzGerald

Viral
“Viral doesn’t set out to pull any punches”

THEY SAY:

So far, twenty-three thousand and ninety six people have seen me online. They include my mother, my father, my little sister, my grandmother, my other grandmother, my grandfather, my boss, my sixth year Biology teacher and my boyfriend James.

When Leah Doyle and her adopted sister Su go on holiday together to Magaluf to celebrate their A-levels, only Leah returns home. Her successful, swotty sister remains abroad, humiliated and afraid: there is an online video of her, drunkenly performing a sex act in a nightclub. And everyone has seen it.

Jennifer Doyle, mother of the girls, successful court judge, is furious. How could this have happened? How can she bring justice to these men who took advantage of her dutiful, virginal daughter? What role has Leah played in all this? And can Jennifer find Su and bring her back home when Su doesn’t want to be found?

I SAY:

We’ve all seen the pictures of crazy holidays in places like Magaluf. Everyone drunk, people passing out in the street, teenage girls so off their faces that they agree to flash (or worse) so they can win a drinking game.

This is a crime novel that is propelled forward thanks to such goings on. From the controversial first line that seems to have everyone talking… TO READ FULL POST, CLICK HERE

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