Genre: Non-Fiction/Self-Help
Description:
Have you ever been sent a message on any
dating or social media site by someone wanting you to be friends with him or
her? Someone who pretended to be romantically interested in you but used a fake
profile, and not who you thought they were, to lure you in and then it turned
into a scam...usually for money. If you have, then you've been 'Catfished'. The
was written to let people know of the different ways these scammers try to get
money out of you.
Author:
Born in Durant, Oklahoma, JR Hopkins describes herself as a
“displaced Okie with a bit of Choctaw blood.” A bit of a nomad her place of
residence has bounced around a bit, with stints in states as varied as Hawaii,
Alaska, Florida, and Connecticut as well as internationally, living for a time
in Iceland. She currently lives in Idaho and is the author of several books that
range from romance, to memoir, and even one that while primarily a cookbook has
a little memoir thrown in as well. That’s a mashup you don’t see very often.
Appraisal:
Maybe it is because I don’t patronize
websites or use apps like Tinder that are specifically aimed at helping to hook
two willing people up, but I’ve been lucky enough not to have become a target
of one of these catfishing schemes. It seems as though women being targeted by
men happens more frequently and targeting people on social media sites that I
do frequent isn’t as common, although it does happen. Reading this to
familiarize myself with examples of these schemes will hopefully prepare me in
case I ever do become a target or if it happens to friends or family, it might
help me recognize what is happening.
Odds are none of the above will happen to
me. That’s good. I’d rather not need the knowledge I gained from reading this
book. Despite being true and my assumption that everything would work out in
the end I still found it entertaining, with some of the qualities of a thriller
or mystery, as I wondered what the catfishers were going to do next and hoped
the author was going to see and deal appropriately with all the potential
repercussions. So, it was a fun and engaging read as well as educational.
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Format/Typo
Issues:
My review is based on an advance reviewer copy so I can’t judge the
final product in this area.
Rating: *****
Five Stars
Reviewed
by: BigAl
Approximate word count: 30-35,000 words
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