Followers by Megan Angelo

I really, really, really liked this audiobook. It was way better than what I'd expected. I feel like the cover is not fully representative of what the book was about--it seems like it might be a cheesy, light romance or something, but it was actually much heftier than I expected, in a good way. It tells two alternate storylines, one set in 2015-2016, and one set in 2051. The 2051 storyline is about Marlowe, a woman who lives in a celebrity town where everyone, everywhere is living in a reality TV show where everything is always being filmed. Everyone has millions of followers who are always watching them. The 2015-2016 storyline is about Orla, a Buzzfeed type blogger who makes her roommate famous by blogging about what she did to make her seem important--and about how that ends up blowing up in their faces--and then how the Internet implodes on itself and changes everything. Both stories were fascinating, and the author did a good job keeping my interest by not letting us know exactly what was coming, just by dropping hints and waiting to fully explain what happened down the road. It really made me think about the what ifs--what if this actually happened? And what if the world was like this today? Basically, my one complaint about this book was that it could have been condensed and edited down, because it did feel like it was pretty long and the Orla/Floss storyline could have not gone on so long. But it was so enjoyable and so fun to get through that I really didn't complain much about that while reading it.