'I was gripped from the first page, moved throughout, and swallowed the book whole.' Erin Kelly, author of The Poison Tree 'An outstanding first novel about a young woman who, with the internet as her ally, steers another woman towards suicide.' Books of the Year, Observer It's about women, families, relationships, intimacy and love, and it's bang on the money: Moggach has taken the online world's pulse and called it perfectly' Grazia Kiss Me First works as a coming-of-age story, as a mystery, as a psychological thriller, as satire - and as a fantastic read. Not only is it acutely perceptive about the online world - all of it, not just the weirder end - but Lottie writes both Tess and Leila with a skill that borders on telepathy.
Kiss Me First is brilliant, one of those books you read till 3am. While Leila is a clear thinker, everything Tess did was “full of digressions and inconsistencies, the facts clouded by retrospective emotions.'This is a book for anyone who's ever spent any time online, and for anyone who feels they over-engage with social media. While Tess “eagerly embraced mystical fads, becoming obsessed with homeopathy and crystals,” Leila always wants to see proof. While Leila barely leaves her home, Tess travels extensively. While Leila has never been kissed, Tess has enjoyed so many paramours that she can’t remember them all. Leila researches Tess’ life intensely through email correspondence and Skype chats and becomes fond of her, despite their opposite natures. Tess wishes to kill herself without her family and friends knowing, thinking this will spare them pain. Leila accepts Adrian’s assignment to impersonate Tess, a gorgeous, dynamic yet scatterbrained woman suffering from bipolar disorder.
… Anyone who in personal freedom cannot be opposed to suicide.”
In an interview that Leila thinks is for a job as a moderator on Red Pill, she parrots Adrian’s ideas: “Deciding upon the time and place of your death is the ultimate expression of self-ownership. Leila is a strong proponent of euthanasia after her mother’s difficult death, but she and Adrian take this further.
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