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Influencer

By: Adam Cesare
Narrated by: Isabela Merced, Christopher Briney, Brittany Pressley
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Publisher's summary

From the producers of Smile and The Outsider comes a chilling psychological thriller starring Isabela Merced (Alien, Superman Legacy) and Christopher Briney (The Summer I Turned Pretty).

Aaron Fortin is new in town. He drives a brand-new Acura—a gift from his parents for uprooting him in the middle of senior year. Showing up on his first day at the local public school in that nice of a car? He knows he’ll never blend in, and he doesn’t care to try. The car, the new kid mystique, he can use all that....

Crystal Giordano carpools to the same school in her friend Trevor’s beat-up van. In the van along with Crystal and Trevor are Paul, Harmony, and Gayle. Crystal’s technically part of their misfit group, but most of the time, she feels like she’s the only one who doesn’t fit.

When Aaron Fortin sits at their lunch table, Crystal can see he’s not who he says he is. But how big of a fraud is Aaron Fortin? Crystal clumsily exposes Aaron and becomes his target, falling victim to his insidious campaign to erase her. Only then does she discover who he truly is—and it’s so much worse than she thought.

As her friends begin to follow him one by one, Crystal wonders if she can protect them or if his influence is just too strong.

Please note: This Audible Original contains graphic violence and themes of drug addiction and sexual assault. Listener discretion is advised.

©2023 Adam Cesare (P)2023 Audible Originals, LLC.

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About the Creator

Adam Cesare is the author of the Bram Stoker Award-winning Clown in a Cornfield series, the graphic novel Dead Mall, and several other novels and novellas, including the cult hit Video Night. If you’re also an avid fan of horror cinema, you can talk movies with him on YouTube, TikTok, Twitter/X, and the rest of his socials.

About the Performer

Isabela Merced is a highly regarded actress, singer, dancer, and songwriter with four much-anticipated films on the horizon. Isabela is set to star alongside Dakota Johnson and Sydney Sweeney in Sony Pictures’ Madame Web, based on the Marvel comics character, coming in 2024. She will appear in the new Alien movie for 20th Century directed by Fede Álvarez and is set to star as Hawkgirl in Warner Bros. DC franchise Superman: Legacy. Isabela is also the lead in New Line’s Turtles All the Way Down, the upcoming film adaptation of John Green’s New York Times bestselling novel.
Isabela recently starred as Juliet in the feature film Rosaline, 20th Century’s revisionist Romeo & Juliet tale opposite Kaitlyn Dever. She appeared in Warner Bros.’ remake of Father of the Bride with Andy Garcia and Gloria Estefan. She also starred in the Netflix original thriller motion picture *Sweet Girl opposite Jason Momoa and was the voice of Lucky Prescott in DreamWorks Animation’s Spirit Untamed.
Her other recent work includes starring in Paramount Pictures’ Dora and the Lost City of Gold, starring in the Netflix original motion picture Let It Snow based on the bestselling book by John Green, starring in Paramount Pictures’ Instant Family alongside Mark Wahlberg, Rose Byrne, and Octavia Spencer, starring opposite Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin in Sicario: Day of the Soldado, and Michael Bay’s Transformers: The Last Knight with Mark Wahlberg, Anthony Hopkins, and Josh Duhamel.

About the Performer

Actor Christopher Briney is rising quickly in the ranks of Hollywood's leading men, distinguishing himself with a variety of nuanced, memorable performances.
He is best-known for his starring role as Conrad Fisher in Amazon’s hit series The Summer I Turned Pretty, based on the bestselling book series of the same title. The series will soon begin production on its third season.
Next up, Briney can be seen starring as Aaron Samuels in Paramount’s highly anticipated Mean Girls movie musical produced by Lorne Michaels and Tina Fey. The film releases January 12, 2024.
Briney made his film debut starring opposite Sir Ben Kingsley in Dalíland as James, Dalí’s young gallery assistant who is thrust into the vibrant but turbulent NY art scene of the 1970s. The film premiered at the 2022 Toronto Film Festival.
Briney grew up in Connecticut before moving to New York to attend Pace University, where he received a BFA in Acting for film, TV, voice-over and commercial.

About the Performer

Brittany Pressley is an NYC based voice actor. She has narrated over 500 audiobooks and can be heard on many national TV commercials. She is also a series regular on two Netflix animated children's cartoons. She has won 18 Audiofile Magazine Earphones Awards and is the winner of a 2018 Audie Award for Best Middle Grade and a 2022 Audie Award for Best Thriller/Suspense. She is a proud graduate of Columbia University.

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Absolutely loved it!

Heard about this as a fan of Chris Briney & had to listen!! Both him & Isabella did such an amazing job, they need to narrate audiobooks so much more! The story was amazing, truly such a thriller that will leave you guessing. So glad I decided to listen! So proud of Chris!!

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Really enjoyed this one!

What happens to an eclectic group of friends when an outsider joins their clique? How well do you really know your friends? Are you truly as aware of the details in your life as you think you are? How much influence does social media have in your life? What would you do for your favorite streamer even when friends get in the way?

This was a great easy listen. Well produced with wonderful voice actors. The story moves at a nice pace and I found myself being nearly done with it after what only seemed like two hours.

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Disturbing and Sad

It was a good story that kept me hooked, but it was very sad to think of the reality of this type of story. The psychology of it is relevant to today’s infatuation with social media. I think this story was taken to the extreme, but it’s still scary to think that something like this can happen. I gave it 4 stars b/c I felt that the ending was rushed. I would have liked more exposition of the end results and what happened to the characters that survived.

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5 stars !!!

Had me locked in until the very end !!! Excitement all the way through . Loved the character voices , they really set the tone .

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Fun perspective

I enjoyed the audio and the ending was not something I expected. Fun & interesting. I will try more from this author.

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What a wonderful surprise!

I have read a lot of the “influencer” type books, but this one is very special. I had to binge it all in one sitting. I’ll be looking out for these authors in the future.

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This book was everything

Honestly so good. The voices the story the plot it’s so good. I love a good thriller and this was everything!

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Outsmarted….

Great listen, very intriguing from the start. High school storyline good plot twist. And very relatable to todays youth and how they are easily influenced

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The narration was exceptional

There were a couple of moment that I wanted to scream at the character to “call the friggen police!” But aside from that it was very good and kept me interested I finished it in one day.

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Loved it!

This audiobook is well done! The story is original, and I like that it flips between two perspectives. The voice acting is awesome! I could listen to Chris Briney read a phone book. I never get tired of his voice.

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