Kiss Me First

Kiss Me First (2013) by Lottie Moggach. Imaginative novel set in the Internet age, in which a woman (Leila) poses online as a second woman (Tess), who intends to commit suicide and doesn't want to upset her friends and relations. Leila is rather backward socially, and is thrilled when she is invited, by the operator of a web site called Red Pill, to impersonate the beautiful and glamorous Tess. But Leila ends up falling in love with one of Tess's old love interests, and gets caught up in a tangled web of deception and lies. Although I'm not fond of Internet-based stories in general, this one caught and held my interest. Leila and Tess are two interesting characters, and the book holds the reader in suspense about Tess's fate until the very end. Grade: B+