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A review by snugglesandpages
Dark Mode by Ashley Kalagian Blunt
5.0
"𝘿𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪'𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙙𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧?"...
"𝙎𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙨 𝙄 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩'𝙨 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙖 𝙬𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙?"
I know we are only in April, but Dark Mode is by far the best book I've read this year. Seriously, if this isn't on your radar yet, it needs to be!!
I read 90% of this book in a day. Every time I put it down to do something, the scenes played out in my mind and I found myself gravitating back to it.
From the first page to the last, this book had me in a chokehold. It's dark, eerily confronting and oh so f*cking possible, I had literal chills. I think I can count on one hand the number of books that have made me feel that way.
Young Reagan could have been any one of us. As a teenage girl in the 00s, my friends and I would constantly chat with strangers online. MSN Messenger, ICQ, mIRC.. gosh just how young and fearless we were. Funny thing is, even back then we used to be obsessed with crime docos on Foxtel, yet failed to heed the warnings of our online escapades thinking stalkers and serial killers only existed in movies or in America 🫣.
But now... Now the world is so much darker and more violent. Now our entire lives can be tracked online. Where every other month some company we trust with our private information gets hacked or held for ransom, sold to sickos who sit behind their screens on the dark web plotting unspeakable things.
That's what makes this book so frightening...
The reality of it all.
Dark Mode will undoubtedly unnerve you, but it will also satisfy the inner creeper who loves reading unsettling books about stalkers and serial killer, like me. 😂
"𝙎𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙨 𝙄 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩'𝙨 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙖 𝙬𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙?"
I know we are only in April, but Dark Mode is by far the best book I've read this year. Seriously, if this isn't on your radar yet, it needs to be!!
I read 90% of this book in a day. Every time I put it down to do something, the scenes played out in my mind and I found myself gravitating back to it.
From the first page to the last, this book had me in a chokehold. It's dark, eerily confronting and oh so f*cking possible, I had literal chills. I think I can count on one hand the number of books that have made me feel that way.
Young Reagan could have been any one of us. As a teenage girl in the 00s, my friends and I would constantly chat with strangers online. MSN Messenger, ICQ, mIRC.. gosh just how young and fearless we were. Funny thing is, even back then we used to be obsessed with crime docos on Foxtel, yet failed to heed the warnings of our online escapades thinking stalkers and serial killers only existed in movies or in America 🫣.
But now... Now the world is so much darker and more violent. Now our entire lives can be tracked online. Where every other month some company we trust with our private information gets hacked or held for ransom, sold to sickos who sit behind their screens on the dark web plotting unspeakable things.
That's what makes this book so frightening...
The reality of it all.
Dark Mode will undoubtedly unnerve you, but it will also satisfy the inner creeper who loves reading unsettling books about stalkers and serial killer, like me. 😂