She’s drop-dead gorgeous. But one of the guys she’s met online might be a stone-cold killer. A chilling game of lies, secrets, and manipulation awaits in R. L. Stine’s dark, sexy thriller—now an MTV original series starring Victoria Justice. Lindy Sampson is a beautiful twenty-three-year-old New Yorker with an unusual She’s too beautiful, and guys are intimidated by her. Her roommate suggests Internet dating and writes a personal ad for Lindy, calling her “Eye Candy.” The responses pour in. Suddenly, Lindy is dating four guys at once—and having the time of her life. Until she gets a terrifying note that “Don’t say no, Lindy. Keep going out with me. I’ll mess you up if you ever say no.” Which one of her admirers is a deadly freak? Lindy is now forced to say yes to everything the four men ask of her—dates, invitations to spend the night, anything. From the East Village to the Hamptons, panic and paranoia shadow her every move. Lindy suspects everyone, even the one person she thought she could trust. But Lindy Sampson doesn’t know the half of it—and what she doesn’t know could kill her.From the Paperback edition.
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When I found out that the MTV show "Eye Candy" was based on a book, I immediately put it on my to-read list and since I needed a book to fill the mystery/thriller category on the 2015 Reading Challenge, I figured this was a good book to use. I was expecting an exciting thriller like the tv show counterpart but this falls more into the mystery part. I was a little disappointed at the book at first and even though I started to like it more by the middle of it, it's definitely not what I was hoping for. First of all, book!Lindy was irritating, she was all over the place and she blamed everything on being "too beautiful". Reading her POV was a pain. After the plot started to move along, I started to like and sympathize with her more, she was afraid,frustrated and a little bit paranoid and that humanized her more. Still, I missed awesome, brave, sassy and badass hacker Lindy from the TV show. And then we have Tommy, which was just a guest appearance on the book. He didn't do anything relevant and wasn't even as involved. Lindy had to figure everything out by herself, basically. Same thing goes for her friends. Anne Marie was a bit more present and served as a support/ source of conflict throught the book, but Luisa was just there and was only mentioned/ made quick appearances. Now for the stalker/killer. Definitely not as scary as I hoped. Not the "I can invade your apartment, I can follow you anywhere, I know who you and all your friends are, I will kill everyone you love if you don't go out with me." I thought, but more on the lines "I will steal your underwear and leave creepy messages on your answering machine" kind of thing. It just didn't had me eating my nails and trying to figure out who it was. Not even his attempt on hurting one of Lindy's friend was convincing, it seemed like he was just trying to scare her, and not hurt her for real. So yeah. Overall it was a nice and quick read, and entertaining if you don't have anything else to do or is curious to read the source material for the tv show (like me). The only thing I really liked was the ending and the identity of the stalker. I wasn't expecting that AT ALL. Such a good plot twist!
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