A Five-Star Review – for The Bubble Reputation – a novella by Alex Craigie

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I’m delighted to share my latest review, for The Bubble Reputation – a contemporary thriller. It’s about a public figure who faces a devastating backlash when someone sets out to destroy her reputation.

The Bubble Reputation – a novella by Alex Craigie

What Amazon Says

If you want to destroy someone’s reputation, social media provides the perfect tool.

Emmie Hobson, children’s author and TV presenter, is riding high on a wave of popularity when an unscrupulous newspaper editor, desperate for a scoop, brings Emmie’s world crashing down.

Social media picks up the baton and a terrifying backlash of hate and abuse is unleashed. Threats are made and there are those, inflamed by the rhetoric, prepared to take the law into their own hands.

My Review

5 Stars – A story for our modern times

As soon as I started reading Alex Craigie’s story, I felt swept along with it and emotionally involved, wondering where it would all end as the days went by and the awful events unfolded. Emmie Hobson, children’s author and TV presenter, seems to be on top of the world and beloved by everyone – until she becomes the victim of malicious lies, fake photos,  and a hate campaign that looks as if it will destroy her life. The story concerns not just her struggle to restore her reputation, but to stop every aspect of her life from falling apart. We also see the heavy toll this takes on her entire family.

This story is so on point for our modern times. “Cancel culture” is everywhere, condemning and casting people out for any perceived infractions against the new ideological agenda. This is enabled and amplified by social media, and by the mainstream press who are so willing to jump on all the latest bandwagons.

The story never stopped moving along as the tensions continued to build. The characters were all well-developed and believable, perfectly suited to the storyline. At times I felt they had jumped straight from the pages of a newspaper. It was easy to empathise with Emmie in her struggles with Jessie, her difficult, drug-addicted sister. It was also easy to empathise with her parents and husband as they dealt with the consequences of the scandal.

The author has an easy writing style that was quite cinematic and kept me turning the pages. I think The Bubble Reputation would make a good movie or TV series, and I’d certainly like to read more of this author’s work.

This was a high-concept and absorbing read, and I give it a resounding five stars.

About the Author

Alex Craigie is the pen name of Trish Power.

Trish was ten when her first play was performed at school. It was in rhyming couplets and written in pencil in a book with imperial weights and measures printed on the back.

When her children were young, she wrote short stories for magazines before returning to the teaching job that she loved.

Trish has had three books published under the pen name of Alex Craigie. The first two books cross genre boundaries and feature elements of romance, thriller and suspense against a backdrop of social issues. Someone Close to Home highlights the problems affecting care homes while Acts of Convenience has issues concerning the health service at its heart. Her third book. Means to Deceive, is a psychological thriller.

Someone Close to Home has won a Chill with a Book award and a Chill with the Book of the Month award. In 2019 it was one of the top ten bestsellers in its category on Amazon.

Book lovers are welcome to contact her on alexcraigie@aol.com

See all her books HERE

Thank you for stopping by. My name is Toni Pike, a multi-genre author who loves writing thrillers for adults, non-fiction, and hilarious books for children.

I’m the author of LINDA’S MIDLIFE CRISIS, DESOLATION BLUFF, DEAD DRY HEART and The Jotham Fletcher Mystery Thriller Series: THE MAGUS COVENANT, THE ROCK OF MAGUS, THE MAGUS EPIPHANY and HOLY SPEAR OF MAGUS.

The Brody Cody Series is for children aged 6-9: BRODY CODY AND THE STEPMOTHER FROM OUTER SPACE and BRODY CODY AND THE HAUNTED VACATION HOUSE.

I’m also the author of two non-fiction books. THE ONE WAY DIET is a no-nonsense guide to losing weight and HAPPY TRAVELS 101 is a short book of travel tips.

All my books can be found HERE.

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49 thoughts on “A Five-Star Review – for The Bubble Reputation – a novella by Alex Craigie”

  1. petespringerauthor

    I enjoyed this one too; Trish/Alex is a talented writer It’s a good example of how rumors can spread through intentional means for no other reason than to attract viewers/readers without thinking about the consequences to the individual.

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    2. alexcraigie

      Thank you so much for the comment, Pete. Social media can be a wonderful resource for the good, helping people keep in touch with each other, but its dark side is truly terrifying!

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  3. Marcia

    I have this one awaiting me on my Kindle, and I’m definitely going to have to bump it up in line. Great review, Toni, and I know Trish will love seeing this, too! Thanks for sharing your thoughts. 😀 ❤

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    2. alexcraigie

      You certainly got that right, Marcia! This is a terrific review and one that really made a difference to my day. I’d bottle the feeling if I could! Many thanks for the comment. ❤

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  7. alexcraigie

    I can’t thank you enough for that terrific review, Toni. It says all that I wanted to convey and I appreciate the time an trouble you must have gone to in order to write it. I tried to reply to Jaye’s comment about Dead Dry Heart, but I wasn’t able to. I have heard many good things about it and have it safe in my Kindle. Thanks again for this boost to my confidence. ❤

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