Fan Club
Book Feature - Fan Club by Erin Mayer
HBL Note: Attention! Attention! Debut author alert! Join me in congratulating Erin Mayer on the release of her first novel! And it is a doozy. FAN CLUB is about a millennial, disillusioned with her job (aren’t we all? jk. kind of.) who gets sucked into a celebrity fan club with dark secrets. I’ve read a number of psychological thrillers, but this one stuck out to me. Perhaps it is my minor infatuation with cults and this sounds a little bit cultish to me? Scroll down to read all about Erin Mayer’s debut novel, FAN CLUB.
Book Feature - Fan Club by Erin Mayer
Book Feature - Fan Club by Erin Mayer
From the publisher:
Day after day our narrator searches for meaning beyond her vacuous job at a women's lifestyle website—entering text into a computer system while she watches their beauty editor unwrap box after box of perfectly packaged bits of happiness. Then, one night at a dive bar, she hears a message in the newest single by international pop star Adriana Argento, and she is struck. Soon she loses herself to the online fandom, a community whose members feverishly track Adriana's every move.
When a colleague notices her obsession, she’s invited to join an enigmatic group of adult Adriana superfans who call themselves the Ivies and worship her music in witchy candlelit listening parties. As the narrator becomes more entrenched in the group, she gets closer to uncovering the sinister secrets that bind them together—while simultaneously losing her grip on reality.
With caustic wit and hypnotic writing, this unsparingly critical thrill ride through millennial life examines all that is wrong in our celebrity-obsessed internet age, and how easy it is to lose yourself in it.
Book Feature - Fan Club by Erin Mayer
