The Stats
📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚
BOOK: The Girls Weekend
AUTHOR: Jody Gehrman
@jodygehrman
Publisher: Crooked Lane Books @crookedlanebooks
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐
Published: August 11, 2020
The Review
I was really looking forward to reading this book. The premise sounded very mysterious: women gather at an estate of their friends and one of them turns up missing, but they can’t remember anything. It’s very Hangover.
But a lot of this book fell flat for me. Although I felt like the writing was concise and descriptive, sometimes I found my mind wandering or I was skimming the pages, waiting for another piece of the puzzle to fall into place. Maybe it felt slightly repetitive in the way it was told.
However, what I will say about it is that the ending was plausible and I was slightly surprised by one part of it. If you like mysteries, give this one a shot and see if you agree with me.
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Small Summary:
June Moody, a thirty-something English professor, just wants to get away from her recent breakup and reunite with girlfriends over summer break. Her old friend and longtime nemesis, Sadie MacTavish, a mega-successful author, invites June and her college friends to a baby shower at her sprawling estate in the San Juan Islands. June is less than thrilled to spend time with Sadie–and her husband, June’s former crush–but agrees to go.
The party gets off to a shaky start when old grudges resurface, but when they wake the next morning, they find something worse: Sadie is missing, the house is in shambles, and bloodstains mar the staircase. None of them has any memory of the night before; they wonder if they were drugged. Everyone’s a suspect. Since June had a secret rendezvous with Sadie’s husband, she has plenty of reason to suspect herself. Apparently, so do the cops.
A Celtic knot of suspense and surprise, this brooding, atmospheric novel will keep you guessing as each twist reveals a new possibility. It will remind you of friendships hidden in the depths of your own past, and make you wonder how well you really know the people you’ve loved the longest.
*****
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Received from Netgalley.