LAST SEEN ONLINE BY LAUREN JAMES
Paperback published by Walker Books 1st August 2024
ISBN 9781406397390
Fandom can be fatal When Delilah meets Sawyer Saffitz ( son of the Anya Saffitz, aka Hollywood royalty), she becomes hooked on a decade-old scandal. In her quest for the truth, Delilah uncovers blog posts written by the mysterious “gottiewrites” and is soon caught up in a world of greed, fandom conspiracy theories and murder. And the deeper Delilah digs, the more dangerous it becomes: someone is willing to kill to hide the truth.
MY REVIEW
If all YA readers want a book recommendation Last Seen Online is it! This story is absolutely pitch perfect for teens as you all love chatting online. My biggest challenge here was where I got so carried away turning the pages, is how do I tell you all about the unfolding story without doing a spoiler. Young Delilah Thorne, is addicted to a new cult Paranormal TV show Loch & Ness. She finds it most interesting that suddenly someone has actually died on the set of the show. With Delilah being too obsessed with true crime podcasts, she becomes obsessed with when Anya Saffitz was playing Lyra Loch in the cult paranormal TV show Loch & Ness the show ended in controversy after only one season when costar Rob Hennings was convicted of the homicide of fellow actor Nathan O’Donnell. Anya was a witness at the trial. The Gottiewriters post online why people need to be watching Loch & Ness, telling people all about the show, with its Premise, the characters, and fan theories and giving people information in where they can watch the paranormal Loch & Ness. Teenagers you will love whole story and you too will become obsessed with the story in your own way with loving the lay out set like tweets, and of course a bit of mystery.
Wren James is the Carnegie-longlisted British author of many Young Adult novels as ‘Lauren James’, including Last Seen Online, Green Rising, The Reckless Afterlife of Harriet Stoker and The Loneliest Girl in the Universe. They are a RLF Royal Fellow and the story consultant on Netflix’s Heartstopper (Seasons 2 and 3).
Wren is the founder of the Climate Fiction Writers League, editor of the anthology Future Hopes: Hopeful stories in a time of climate change, and a member of the Society of Authors’ Sustainability Committee. They work as a consultant on climate storytelling for museums, production companies, major brands and publishers, with a focus on optimism and hope. They run a Queer Writers group in Coventry.
Their books have sold over two hundred thousand copies worldwide in seven languages. The Quiet at the End of the World was shortlisted for the YA Book Prize and STEAM Children’s Book Award.
Wren’s writing has been described as ‘gripping romantic sci-fi’ by the Wall Street Journal and ‘a strange, witty, compulsively unpredictable read which blows most of its new YA-suspense brethren out of the water’ by Entertainment Weekly.
Wren was born in 1992, and has a Masters degree from the University of Nottingham, where they studied Chemistry and Physics. They have taught creative writing for Coventry University, WriteMentor, and Writing West Midlands. https://www.instagram.com/wrenjameswriter https://www.Twitter.com/wren_james https://www.wrenjames.co.uk
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