Bestselling YA author Melinda Salisbury exposes the dark underbelly of new AI technology in this gripping thriller. Freya desperately wants to be a famous influencer, like her former best friend, Hye-jin, but no matter what she does, her posts flop. Until Freya’s stepdad arrives home with AdelAIDE, a home-assistant robot.It quickly becomes clear that AdelAIDE is much more powerful than other home-assistant technology, and the thing AdelAIDE wants most of all is to help her new owners. Especially Freya.AdelAIDE has lots of ideas to help Freya boost her profile and get more likes and followers. But when Freya starts to follow AdelAIDE’s more radical advice, things quickly spiral out of control …In ADELAIDE, the reader is taken on a suspenseful journey through the eyes of Freya, a teenager struggling with the pressures of social media. The story, filled with dystopian themes, is a stark reminder of the psychological impact of peer pressure on kids today.For fans of C.N. Crawford (Court of Night), Scarlett St. Clair (A Touch of Chaos), Allison Saft (Down Comes the Night), K. M. Moronova (Your Knife, My Heart), and Darcy Coates (Dead of Winter).HarperCollins 2024
