TW: murder mention, drug and alcohol addiction mention, murder description, implied usage of the n-word, slut-shaming, victim-blaming

Meme is a fast-paced story that is about a group of 4 friends who murder the ex-boyfriend of one of the friends in the friend group. A couple days later, a picture from the confession video to the murder surfaces on the internet as a meme and the friends scramble to uncover who posted it.

I found Meme’s pacing to be pretty spot-on, but I do feel as if the characters were a bit two-dimensional. I felt no real connection to Holly, Grayson, Logan, or Meeka. I also felt as if their friend group dynamic was very odd and it didn’t feel as if the characters had any real reason to be connected. Although, Aaron Starmer’s writing of intense and dark scenes is fantastic and I felt fully immersed in those scenes. The book is very plot-based, and going off that, I think the plot was well-developed. There are a lot of twists and turns to keep the reader guessing, so I was never knowing how an event in the book was going to end up.

Overall, Meme was an enjoyable fast-paced story that is rich in intensity and suspense, but falls short at developing well-rounded characters and relations.

*Thank you to Penguin and Netgalley for giving me an advanced reader copy. All opinions stated in my review are my own.*