Tuesday, January 23, 2018

RELEASE DAY: Watch Me by Jody Gehrman


Watch Me by Jody Gehrman
A Gripping Psychological Thriller




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.









I love the uniqueness of this cover. It’s a great glimpse into what this book is going to be about. The broken glass over the image of the woman is creepy. However, once you look at the broken area and notice the dark night with a man’s image it takes on a sinister feel. That is exactly what I got from this book… dark and sinister hiding in plain sight! I’m always excited to read the debut thriller book of an author. I feel like we’re gonna get some fantastically-enjoyable nights from Miss Jody Gehrman!

One of the main characters, Kate Youngblood is an author of a pretty successful book. After 10 years of marriage she is a recently divorced woman who’s struggling a bit with her husband falling for younger women. Kate is currently teaching at a small town college. She feels herself being drawn to a student. Finally, she’s remembering that heat, that passion that’s been lost for so long. Here Kate is, all of a sudden, falling for a younger man… a student, no less! She’s feeling sexy again… feeling that sizzling heat again for a man… a much younger man!

Our lucky young student, Sam, is just as infatuated with Kate… maybe a bit more so. Kate might be struggling with her infatuation but Sam is all on board and completely and utterly smitten. But Sam has a bit of a secret. He’s been in love with Kate for years and has been plotting his way right to her. Sam is completely crazy about Kate, and I mean that literally, not figuratively. I love how slowly, but surely, Jody Gehrman breaks down Sam’s character and shows us his true obsession.

What a disturbing read from Gehrman! I was delighted that this was her debut into thrillers, it sure didn’t read or feel like one. The dialog between the main characters was fantastic and the alternating POVs pulls you into their minds and makes you think.  I love how we are given bit by little bit of the two flawed characters. Completely enthralling read!

I received an ARC of this book with the hope that I will leave an Unbiased Opinion. I was not required to leave a review, positive or otherwise, and my opinions are just that... my opinions.








 
Jody Gehrman is a native of Northern California, where she can be found writing, teaching, reading, or obsessing over her three cats most days. She is also the author of eleven novels and numerous award-winning plays.

Her Young Adult novel Babe in Boyland was optioned by the Disney Channel and won the International Reading Association's Teen Choice Award.

Her plays have been produced in Ashland, New York, San Francisco, Chicago and L.A. She and her partner David Wolf won the New Generation Playwrights Award for their one-act, Jake Savage, Jungle P.I.

She is a professor of English and Communications at Mendocino College.

 




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