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A dramatic and terrifying memoir of a ‘catfish’ scenario - when a woman meets a man online but nothing is what it seems. 25-year-old Megan Henley put her five-year-old daughter to bed one evening and switched on her laptop. A Facebook ‘friend request’ seemed to be genuine. There were a few common friends and very similar interests, so Megan accepted. With that one simple act, she changed her life forever. In her words: ‘looking back on it, it was as if I had opened my front door to a stranger, as if I had thrown away every precaution I’d ever put in place, as if I had freely given access to my whole world – all because of some naïve belief that it was ‘just’ a friend request on a social media site.’ Megan is tricked into a relationship, paranoia and ultimately betrayal by the man she loved and trusted but nothing is as it seems. |
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With this busy life we have, meeting the right person is a real challenge. No wonder many people feel lonely and turn to the internet just for talk. Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, you name it! But we never know who are we really talking to. It might be just a normal person spending the free time just like us, or it might be a serial killer lurking for his next victim....
When I finished reading this book, I was hard for me to believe that it was a real life story. Not that it couldn't happen in real life. It happened, that was the problem! Psychopaths do exist also in real life, not just in movies. Luckily, this woman managed to escape, some women didn't. Megan Henley was brave enough to tell her story. If she had succeeded to warn at least one woman out there, her story hit the target.