#Jody Gehrman

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"The Girls Weekend: A Novel" by Jody Gehrman

"The Girls Weekend: A Novel" by Jody Gehrman is a thrilling story that unfolds during a weekend getaway among longtime friends. Set against the backdrop of a secluded cabin in the woods, tensions simmer and old wounds resurface as the group grapples with their past and present relationships. Secrets and betrayals come to light, testing the bonds of friendship to their limits. As the weekend progresses, the line between reality and paranoia blurs, leading to unexpected twists and turns. Gehrman skillfully crafts a narrative rife with suspense and intrigue, keeping readers on the edge of their seats until the very end. Themes of trust, betrayal, and the complexities of female friendship are explored with depth and nuance. Each character is vividly drawn, with their own motivations and secrets driving the narrative forward. Through expert pacing and sharp dialogue, Gehrman creates a tense atmosphere that grips readers from start to finish. "The Girls Weekend" is a gripping psychological thriller that will leave readers questioning the nature of friendship and the lengths people will go to protect their darkest secrets. With its unpredictable plot and compelling characters, it's a must-read for fans of the genre.

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The Protégé By Jody Gehrman Summary

Jody Gehrman pits the drive for revenge against the equally vital will to survive, in this chilling psychological suspense novel in the vein of Samantha Downing and Layne Fargo.

Dr. Hannah Bryers, anthropology professor and forensics expert at the prestigious Mad River University, takes pleasure in examining corpses, but small talk and living people fill her with dread. When she’s not teaching, she analyzes the decomposing flesh of murder victims around the globe.

Winter Jones is Hannah’s most promising graduate student. She’s intelligent, cunning, and dedicated, but she’s got her agenda for coming to Mad River: to bring Hannah Bryers down. She’ll stop at nothing to make her life implode. In alternating narratives, Winter systematically robs Hannah of the things she values most: her reputation, her job, and—ultimately—her safety.

When dangerous mistakes are made in her lab, Hannah has no idea who would have it out for her and would be willing to risk students’ lives. As the incidents become deadly, many suspects come to light. Hannah won’t go down without a fight. She has to figure out who is sabotaging her career and killing people; her life depends on finding answers.

Review the latest book Summery and Delicious Writing Of An Evil Character And A Fraught Campus Propels The Protégé By Jody Gehrman

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Currently Reading: Babe in Boyland by Jody Gehrman

It's a little weird to read a book where the main character has the same name as me, but this book feels like it's going to be a fun read.

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Gehrman’s new novel is an interesting mystery, thriller female perspective book with some flaws mostly winning formula that keeps the reader interested in the final half.

 The Girl’s Weekend characters are all very interesting and they are basically what hinges the story together.  The five friends have a checker history with each other as far as their personal relationships within them.  Sadie, it seems to be the string puller with the others falling in line except for June who is in her own personal baggage, lack of a writing career and successful relationship.  After around 15 years, Sadie decides that it is time to get the old team back together and they grudgingly ascend on to Sadie’s mansion and grounds bringing along stored up bitterness.  

 The characters are well drawn and are very likable.  Em and June, we spend the most time with and even though there is some personality stereotyping found within the characters, for the most part they stand on their own. As the story is in the first person narrative, June is very balanced and likeable which is not an easy feat.  The author knows this character and all and it would have been easy to have her being annoying and whining but this is refrained from making this character a winning shining example how first person narrative is to be handled (something Stephanie Meyer could have learned with her Twilight series).  

 The plot is very effective and readable though there is an underlying blame culture that permeates through the pages concerning the character of Sadie that often works well but there are a few story threads you have to wonder if this should be a thing, for the example the lending of money by Sadie to another character and Sadie wanting it repaid.  Not sure if this is an efficient enough reason within the plot, maybe something a bit more sinister would have suited the plot better.  The plot keeps the reader invested although it does take more than a third of the novel to get to this.  We do have a lot of jealousy to wade through and this leaves a slightly sour taste considering that Sadie worked hard for what she accomplished and it was not inherited or given to her by marriage.  It would seem that Sadie should be admired for these aspects and identified for this.  Sadie’s personality leaves something to be desired and does give the rest of the group ample ammunition for their untoward feelings for her though.  

 Overall, this is a good little mystery thriller that keeps the reader invested.  I enjoyed the different characters interaction and plot though I did slightly work out the whodunit aspect a little early but the reasoning still left me surprised.  The love interest side of it kind of works but could do without as we have a woman’s story that needs a man or relationship to keep her successful which work ok but could have been left out considering the speedy conclusion we get at the end.  I think people will enjoy the overall flow, mystery and characters and for the most part besides a few niggling aspects, I thoroughly enjoyed and would recommend to most people.  

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I actually plan to mess up my life and start over every seven years. That way, I'll never get in a rut. I read somewhere that most of your cells only live about seven years anyway, so in theory you literally are a new person; I figure that's the best time to start over.

Jody Gehrman (Babe in Boyland)

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The Summer We Buried by Jody Gehrman | Book review

The Summer We Buried by Jody Gehrman | Book review

Title: The Summer We Buried Author: Jody Gehrman Publisher: Crooked Lane Books Published Date: March 8th, 2022 Genre: Thriller, Mystery, Adult fiction Source: Library Rating: ★ ★ ★ Goodreads Summary: An unthinkable crime—and the tattered threads of a friendship gone wrong—come roaring back to terrible new life in Jody Gehrman’s riveting psychological suspense, perfect for fans of Joshilyn…

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The Girls Weekend by Jody Gehrman

The Girls Weekend by Jody Gehrman

The Girls Weekend by Jody Gehrman

Psychological Thriller/Mystery

311 Pages

Published by Crooked Lane Books (7th July 2020)

Purchase from | Amazon AU*| Amazon US | Amazon UK | Booktopia * | Book Depository *| Fishpond AU * | Dymocks | QBD |

    My rating: ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

I received a copy of this book from the publisher, Crooked Lane Books, and the author via Netgalley, in exchange for an honest…

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After confession

Adam: Are you mad?

Kai: I was. Or confused, anyway. In a way though, I was relieved.

Adam: Relieved? Why?

Kai:...

Kai: Let's just say you had me questioning my sexual orientation.

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Colleen Hoover’s Verity & Other Readalikes

Verity by Colleen Hoover

Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn't expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity's recollection of what really happened the day her daughter died. Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, knowing its contents would devastate the already grieving father. But as Lowen's feelings for Jeremy begin to intensify, she recognizes all the ways she could benefit if he were to read his wife's words. After all, no matter how devoted Jeremy is to his injured wife, a truth this horrifying would make it impossible for him to continue to love her.

Watch Me by Jody Gehrman

For fans of dark and twisty psychological thrillers, Watch Me is a riveting novel of suspense about how far obsession can go. Kate Youngblood is disappearing. Muddling through her late 30s as a creative writing professor at Blackwood college, she’s dangerously close to never being noticed again. The follow-up novel to her successful debut tanked. Her husband left her for a woman ten years younger. She’s always been bright, beautiful, independent and a little wild, but now her glow is starting to vanish. She’s heading into an age where her eyes are less blue, her charm worn out, and soon no one will ever truly look at her, want to know her, again. Except one. Sam Grist is Kate’s most promising student. An unflinching writer with razor-sharp clarity who gravitates towards dark themes and twisted plots, his raw talent is something Kate wants to nurture into literary success. But he’s not there solely to be the best writer. He’s been watching her. Wanting her. Working his way to her for years. As Sam slowly makes his way into Kate’s life, they enter a deadly web of dangerous lies and forbidden desire. But how far will his fixation go? And how far will she allow it? A gripping novel exploring intense obsession and illicit attraction, Jody Gehrman introduces a world where what you desire most may be the most dangerous thing of all.

The Body Lies by Jo Baker

When a young writer accepts a job at a university in the remote English countryside, it's meant to be a fresh start, away from the bustle of London and the scene of a violent assault she is desperate to forget. But despite the distractions of her new life and the demands of single motherhood, her nerves continue to jangle. To make matters worse, during class a vicious debate about violence against women inflames the tensions and mounting rivalries in her creative writing group. When a troubled student starts turning in chapters that blur the lines between fiction and reality, the professor recognizes herself as the main character in his book--and he has written her a horrific fate. Will she be able to stop life imitating art before it's too late? At once a breathless cat-and-mouse game and a layered interrogation of the fetishization of the female body, The Body Lies gives us an essential story for our time that will have you checking the locks on your doors.

Exquisite by Sarah Stovell

She loves me. She loves me not. Bo Luxton has it all – a loving family, a beautiful home in the Lake District, and a clutch of bestselling books to her name. Enter Alice Dark, an aspiring writer who is drifting through life, with a series of dead-end jobs and a freeloading boyfriend. When they meet at a writers’ retreat, the chemistry is instant, and a sinister relationship develops… Or does it? Breathlessly pacey, taut and terrifying, Exquisite is a startlingly original and unbalancing psychological thriller that will keep you guessing until the very last page.

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Books I've Read

2024: The Mister - E.L James The Hypnotist's Love Story - Liane Moriarty A Country Escape - Katie Fforde Dear Cupid - Julie Ortolon Lock and Key - Sarah Dessen Summer Rental - Mary Kay Andrews (accidental reread) The Sleeping Beauty Proposal - Sarah Strohmeyer The Importance of Being Married - Gemma Townley Big Summer - Jennifer Weiner Honey, Baby, Sweetheart - Deb Caletti A Summer To Remember - Erika Montgomery What I Thought Was True - Huntley Fitzpatrick When in Rome... - Gemma Townley Love & Luck - Jenna Evans Welch Somewhere Only We Know - Maurene Goo

2023: I Remember You - Harriet Evans Sex and the Single Witch - Theresa Alan, Holly Chamberlin, Carly Alexander The Orchardist - Amanda Coplin The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale: Finding a Formula for the Cost of Love - Haley McGee Vivien's Heavenly Ice Cream Shop - Abby Clements The Summer List - Amy Mason Doan For Better, for Worse - Carole Matthews One Perfect Summer - Brenda Novak Beach Season - Lisa Jackson, Holly Chamberlin, Cathy Lamb, Rosalind Noonan Villa Serena - Domenica De Rosa Sunset Beach - Mary Kay Andrews Sleeping Arrangements - Madeleine Wickham (Sophie Kinsella) An Island Wedding (Mure, #5) - Jenny Colgan Opposite of Always - Justin A. Reynolds Minding Frankie - Maeve Binchy One Hundred Names - Cecelia Ahern

2022: The Interestings - Meg Wolitzer Thanks for the Memories - Cecelia Ahern Falling - Jane Green First Comes Love - Emily Giffin Can You Keep A Secret? - Sophie Kinsella The Cake Shop in the Garden - Carole Matthews Remember Me? - Sophie Kinsella The Hypothetical Girl - Elizabeth Cohen The Gatecrasher - Madeleine Wickham (Sophie Kinsella) Dreamland - Sarah Dessen Vintage - Susan Gloss The Vacationers - Emma Straub That Summer - Jennifer Weiner Summer At The Garden Cafe - Felicity Hayes-McCoy The Beachcomber - Josephine Cox Love Always - Harriet Evans On The Other Side - Carrie Hope Fletcher Writers & Lovers - Lily King In Full Bloom - Caroline Hwang Christmas Dessert Murder (A Hannah Swensen Mystery: Christmas Caramel Murder, Christmas Cake Murder) - Joanne Fluke

Pre 2014: To Be Perfectly Honest - Sonya Sones This Is What Happy Looks Like - Jennifer E. Smith The Fault In Our Stars - John Green Looking For Alaska - John Green Paper Towns - John Green The Abundance of Katherines - John Green Crank - Ellen Hopkins Glass Fallout

Burned - Ellen Hopkins Smoke Eleanor & Park - Rainbow Rowell Get Well Soon - Julie Halpern Have A Nice Day Falling in Love with English Boys - Melissa Jensen Tweet Heart - Elizabeth Rudnick The Summer I Turned Pretty - Jenny Han It's Not Summer Without You We'll Always Have Summer ------ 2014: Sing You Home - Jodi Picoult The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things - Carolyn Mackler Being Friends with Boys - Terra Elan McVoy Billy and Me - Giovanna Fletcher 13 Little Blue Envelopes - Maureen Johnson The Last Little Blue Envelope Twenties Girl - Sophie Kinsella Fangirl - Rainbow Rowell Babe in Boyland - Jody Gehrman Faking It - Cora Carmack Losing It (first in series, read backwards) All Lined Up - Cora Carmack(Rusk University)~ Amy & Roger's Epic Detour - Morgan Matson Since You've Been Gone - Morgan Matson The Geography of You and Me - Jennifer E. Smith Anna and the French Kiss - Stephanie Perkins* Lola and the Boy Next Door - Stephanie Perkins* Girl Online - Zoe Sugg/Siobhan Curham Finding It - Cora Carmack(losing it series) Every Day - David Levithan

2015: Isla and the Happily Ever After - Stephanie Perkins* Uglies - Scott Westerfeld Pretties Specials Extras To All The Boys I've Loved Before - Jenny Han- Life On The Refigerator Door - Alice Kuipers My Life Next Door - Huntley Fitzpatrick The Secret Life of Prince Charming - Deb Caletti Breakfast Served Anytime - Sarah Combs Aristole and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe - Benjamin Alire Sáenz All Broke Down - Cora Carmack~ Attachments - Rainbow Rowell Pretty Face - Mary Hogan Perfect - Ellen Hopkins (read out of order) Impulse  PS. I Still Love You - Jenny Han- My true love gave to me : twelve holiday stories  - edited by Stephanie Perkins The Statistical Probablity of Love at First Sight - Jennifer E. Smith All Played Out - Cora Carmack~

2016: Second Chance Summer - Morgan Matson All I Know Now - Carrie Hope Fletcher Dream A Little Dream - Giovanna Fletcher Carry On - Rainbow Rowell You're The One That I Want - Giovanna Fletcher Hello, Goodbye and Everything In Between - Jennifer E. Smith The Unexpected Everything - Morgan Matson The Guardian - Nicholas Sparks Landline - Rainbow Rowell The F-It List - Julie Halpern Solitaire - Alice Oseman This Lullaby - Sarah Dessen Bliss - Shay Mitchell & Michaela Blaney

2017: The Chocolate Lovers' Diet - Carole Matthews The Chocolate Lovers' Christmas The Chocolate Lovers' Wedding How To Start a Fire - Lisa Lutz The You I've Never Known - Ellen Hopkins Summer Rental - Mary Kay Andrews All The Summer Girls - Meg Donohue Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac - Gabrielle Zevin Windfall - Jennifer E. Smith All The Bright Places - Jennifer Niven The Sun Is Also A Star - Nicola Yoon

2018: Everything Leads To You - Nina LaCour We Are Okay - Nina LaCour You Know Me Well - Nina LaCour & David Levithan The Disenchantments - Nina LaCour Something Like Happy - Eva Woods Meant To Be - Julie Halpern Always and Forever, Lara Jean - Jenny Han-

2019: Let It Snow - John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson 2020: So Inn Love - Catherine Clark The UnDomestic Goddess - Sophie Kinsella The Night Swimmer - Matt Bondurant Welcome to the Real World - Carole Matthews My Life Before Me - Norah McClintock 2021: A Winter's Tale - Trisha Ashley Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman A Hopeless Romantic - Harriet Evans The Boy Next Door - Meg Cabot Mermaids in Paradise - Lydia Millet The Vintage Guide to Love and Romance - Kristy Greenwood Italian for Beginners - Kristin Harmel Love & Gelato - Jenna Evans Welch The Summer of Us - Holly Chamberlin Swapping Lives - Jane Green The Friends We Keep - Holly Chamberlin The Daughters - Joanna Philbin Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore - Robin Sloan The History of Love - Nicole Krauss This Time Next Year - Sophie Cousens Misery Loves Cabernet - Kim Gruenenfelder Time Between Us - Tamara Ireland Stone Second Chance - Jane Green Sorry Not Sorry - Sophie Ranald I Was Jane Austen's Best Friend - Cora Harrison Miss You - Kate Eberlen Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined To Meet - Jennifer L. Armentrout , Sona Charaipotra, Dhonielle Clayton, Katie Cotugno, Jocelyn Davies, Nina LaCour, Emery Lord , Katharine McGee , Kass Morgan , Meredith Russo, Sara Shepard , Nicola Yoon , Ibi Zoboi , Julie Murphy The Idea of You - Robinne Lee

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read in june 2021

white ivy by susie yang 

 the summer of broken rules by kl walther 

 one last stop by casey mcquiston

 the mother in law by sally hepworth 

 the girls weekend by jody gehrman 

 sister outsider by audre lorde

 bitter orange by claire fuller

 the mercies by kiran millwood hargrave

 minor feelings by cathy park hong

 this is how you lose the time war by amal el-mohtar & max gladstone 

 prep by curtis sittenfeld

 the final revival of opal and nev by dawnie walton 

 the herd by andrea bartz

the chosen and the beautiful by nghi vo 

milk fed by melissa broder

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Monday (Mini #BookReview) Madness

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This week I read: Three friends who share a mysterious secret from their past find themselves treading water as their lives start to unravel. Has the past come back to haunt them? Or is the threat a reality? This was good, but not my favorite by this author. A bit predictable and unbelievable at times. I enjoyed the dynamics of the friendship and the character development more than the suspense,…

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Babe in Boyland by Jody Gehrman

This book was so fun and cute. I really enjoyed it. And although it reminded me a lot of She's the Man, it was very different. Viola and Natalie have different reasons for going to a school disguised as a boy. Both are funny and endearing. This book was fun and I had a smile on my face while reading most of it.

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Watch Me by Jody Gehrman

Watch Me by Jody Gehrman

2 Stars

Publisher: St. Martin’s Press, St. Martin’s Griffin

Date of publication: January 23rd, 2018

Genre: Mystery, Thriller

Where you can find Watch Me: Amazon | Barnes and Noble

Book Synopsis (from Goodreads):

“Riveting, chilling, and page-turning. Be prepared to stay up all night.” — New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline

For fans of dark and twisty psychological thrillers, Watch…

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I'm all of these people, and I'm sure I'll be many more before I die. There is a core me-ness at the center of it all, though, a still, small voice that tells me what's true.

Jody Gehrman (Babe in Boyland)