This series is sooo good, but sooo creepy! Sara Shepard has this incredible gift for spinning stories that are simultaneously engrossing and unsettling.

The cast of The Amateurs series is really interest and I love getting to learn more about them. I can't wait to read the next one.

Quick and mindless. I felt like this lacked a story that held my attention and I only really read it to see what happened to the characters after the first book. At this point I’ll probably just wait until the third one comes out and just read the end.. definitely a hard pass if you haven’t read the first one and still a pass if you’ve read the first one and want some closure.

This was a great follow up to the first book of the series. It kept me wanting to know more and had a great ending. I particularly liked the chapters from the killers point of view as it gave a deeper understanding into their character and their intentions. Overall, this book was a joy and I can't wait for the third instalment.

More unnecessary romance. I didn’t love this but I’ll finish the series eventually out of curiosity

Trigger warnings: murder, kidnapping, death of a loved one (in the past).

2.5 stars.

I wasn't planning on reading this book. I felt pretty meh towards the first book in the series, so continuing wasn't really high on my list of priorities. But after the way the first book finished, I felt like I *had* to continue. And I kind of wish I hadn't. I didn't care at all about the case in this one, and it didn't seem to even really lead anywhere following the events of the first book.

Will I read book 3? Probably, because this one also has a shocking cliffhanger ending. Goddammit.

This wasn’t nearly as entertaining as the first book, but it was compulsively readable.

Another well done YA thriller by Sara Shepard. I have to say I didn't remember much of the first book, especially about how the characters' lives intersected, but I still enjoyed the book a lot.

In this book, the characters are in a race against time to save a kidnap victim. I thought the kidnapping was really well done. There were aspects to it that were different from most other thrillers, which made it enjoyable to read about.

The ending was very exciting. I need the next book now!

Sara Shepard is the queen of the YA thriller. I don't know where she comes up with all these cliffhangers. But I definitely want to keep reading!

AHHHH I NEED THE NEXT BOOK NOW!!!!

So after THAT reveal in the first book, the gang had gone their separate ways, but looking over their shoulders for a certain someone to show up. And show up, they did. Chelsea Dawson, a beautiful blonde 21-year old with over 50,000 followers on Instagram, disappears one night after arguing with her ex-boyfriend Jeff at a beach party. Suspicion soon falls on poor Jeff, but we know from the beginning he is not to blame. After Seneca and Maddox receive taunting messages from our old friend to come investigate, the Scooby Doo gang is back in business - the business of solving crimes with modern technology that is. Seriously, the amount of new fan-dangled tech that is mentioned in this book is crazy, from FitBits to drones to motion-detecting apps.

What I liked about this book was you knew who the kidnapper was from the beginning, but you didn't know what his name is. And he always seemed to be one step ahead of Seneca and co.

The cop investigating the kidnapping was sooooooooo frustrating. Why are cops in mystery books like this always so incompetent. For example,

Spoiler

when Chelsea was discovered, and before taking statements, he said he just wanted them to skim over their story and get it over and done with asap. Like shouldn't you be looking into this as intently as possible??????

So yeah, this book had me hooked from the beginning, and as stated at the beginning, I NEED THE THIRD BOOK RIGHT NOW!!

Follow Me  by Sara Shepard

It was the perfect night for a party.
That is, until twenty-one-year-old Chelsea Dawson disappeared. The social media star was last seen enjoying a beautiful summer night at the Jersey Shore with her friends. But after an explosive fight with her ex-boyfriend, she vanished without a trace.
When Seneca, Maddox, Aerin, and Madison hear about the suspected kidnapping, they notice a jarring detail about the victim: she looks exactly like Aerin's sister, Helena, who was killed five years earlier. Seneca is convinced she knows who killed Helena, and she can't shake the feeling that the same person has taken Chelsea.
Desperate for answers about the two girls, and the truth behind her mother's murder, Seneca will stop at nothing to find out if the cases are linked. So when Maddox receives an invitation to the Shore from none other than their primary suspect, the Amateurs begin an intense new investigation.

This is the second title in Sara Shepard's new series following the Pretty Little Liars series. This title can be read without reading the first in the series. Throughout the book, Sara Shephard does a good job in informing the reader information that was revealed in the first book while moving the story forward without confusing the reader. The book was a read with a little mystery of who killed Seneca's mom but left the reader hanging at the end wondering who is the killer. The book seemed to drag in the middle but did have enough twists and turns to keep the reader forging ahead until the end. For this reader, it seemed a little unrealistic that these teens would have been allowed to go to another town to solve a death mystery. Fans of Sara  Shepard's previous series will probably overlook the teens ability to go solve the mystery without adults and will be drawn to wait for the next title for the series. 

I received an ARC ebook from Netgalley  and the publisher, Disney Book Group in exchange for an honest review.