Watch Me: A Gripping Psychological Thriller
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For followers of darkish and twisty psychological thrillers comes a riveting suspense audiobook about how far obsession can go.
Kate Youngblood is disappearing. Muddling via her late 30s as a artistic writing professor at Blackwood school, she’s dangerously near by no means being seen once more. The follow-up novel to her profitable debut tanked. Her husband left her for a girl 10 years youthful. She’s all the time been vivid, lovely, impartial and a little bit wild, however now her glow is beginning to vanish. She’s heading into an age the place her eyes are much less blue, her appeal worn out, and shortly nobody will ever really have a look at her, need to know her, once more.
Besides one.
Sam Grist is Kate’s most promising scholar. An unflinching author with razor-sharp readability who gravitates in direction of darkish themes and twisted plots, his uncooked expertise is one thing Kate desires to nurture into literary success. However he is not there solely to be one of the best author. He is been watching her. Wanting her. Working his method to her for years.
As Sam slowly makes his method into Kate’s life, they enter a lethal net of harmful lies and forbidden want. However how far will his fixation go? And the way far will she enable it?
In Watch Me, Jody Gehrman examines intense obsession and illicit attraction, introducing a world by which what you want most often is the most harmful factor of all.
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Prospects discover the e-book partaking and suspenseful. They describe it as an addictive learn that retains them hooked till the top.
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SusannaSultana –
Kate Youngblood has reached a point in her life where …
Kate Youngblood has reached a point in her life where she feels invisible and fears becoming irrelevant. Sam’s enrollment in her English composition class isn’t just casual; he has been mapping this encounter for years.Gehrman’s style is intense and visual, sparkling with with truth, humanity and her characteristic touches of humor. It’s a psychological thriller with capital T, full of suspense, and with masterfully developed characters whose alternating narrations lay bare their histories, motivations, and vulnerabilities.She holds nothing back, giving this reader a story that is as disturbing and haunting as it is compelling and satisfying.
RSW Kindle Customer –
4 chillingly creepy stars
What can I say about this addictively readable psychological thriller other than, “WOW!”SUMMARYAuthor / college professor Kate is going through a bit of a rough patch; her husband of 10 years has left her for a much younger woman, her BFF since college, Zoe, is recently married and very pregnant, Kate’s second book, which was already published several years ago, has not been as revered as her first AND she is unable to come up with anything for her third. With her tenure review around the corner, her department chair not exactly loving her and no new publications in the near future, Kate is beginning to feel insecure, irrelevant and invisible.When handsome, intense undergrad Sam Grist shows up in her writing seminar, Kate can’t help but notice the way he stares at her and takes in her every word. It’s hard not to find this kind of reverence flattering. Soon they begin to bump into each other at random times and places. They develop a bit of a bond which takes on kind of a flirty vibe.Since this story is told from the dual view points of both Sam and Kate, it isn’t long before the reader learns that Sam didn’t just accidentally end up in Kate’s seminar or even at Blackwood College. Sam has been working toward the goal of going to Blackwood and being in Kate’s class ever since he read her debut novel, which he credits with changing his life. Apparently, Sam has a case of hero worship. Actually, it isn’t long before the reader realizes that it’s not just hero worship, it’s more of an obsession. And Sam may not be 100% right in the head.Will Kate notice that Sam is not what he seems before it’s too late? Will her vulnerability effect her judgement? What is Sam’s end goal? Exactly how unstable is he and what is he willing to do to get what he wants?WHAT I LOVEDI have so much praise for this stalker love story BUT I have to say my favorite part was being inside Sam’s head. Particularly reading how Sam practiced making “normal” facial expressions. Here is one of my favorite highlights from Sam’s POV:”My face blends the right mixture of sheepish, contrite, and pathetic. I’ve practiced this look many times in a mirror. You’d be amazed how often it comes in handy.”I love that line because it shows how hard Sam has to try in order to just blend in, how he has to calculate his every move.Kate was surprise. As a published author of a well respected book and a college professor, I was expecting her to be more confident and sure of herself, to carry herself with an aura of authority but she was kind of a mess. Due to all the drama with her career and marriage, she was more susceptible than normal to the charms of Sam. She was also thrown off by things she should have figured out by this stage in her life; a meeting with her agent, her prickly department chair and her much younger student. I loved how author Jody Gehrman created this sort of bumbling, messy yet very loveable character. It made her more relatable. I have to say that Kate kept me guessing until the very end.Although she was just a minor character, Sam’s mother was intriguing. She was clearly not much of a mother to Sam and not much of a human being but I loved the idea of the mystical Native American connection she had to Sam. She seemed to pop up when least expected and know things she should have had no way to know. I also loved the way Sam described her before she was too far gone and how he was able to remember the good times even though they were heavily outweighed by the bad.WHAT I DIDN’T LOVEI would have given this book another star if it hadn’t been so darn similar to Caroline Kepnes’s books, “You” and “Hidden Bodies.” That statement is a bit ironic because I actually chose to read it based on a GR Friend’s recommendation and comparison to “You” and “Hidden Bodies.” There were just a few pages so similar that they almost felt borrowed.
Sandy Markwalder –
Suspenseful! Couldn’t put it down!
I thoroughly enjoyed this book from beginning to end and couldn’t wait to get back to it to see what scary thing would happen next. I loved Jody’s writing style, as well .. her description of being a woman over 40 fighting her attraction to a younger man was very real.
Elizabeth Blankenship –
Ok read
The book tended to drag for a bit. Some of the plot was unbelievable seeming unrealistic even for fiction. The book was still worth reading though.
Adrian Dooley –
Very Enjoyable
Really enjoyed this one. A love story of sorts about a teacher and her obsessive, slightly unhinged student, the author plays this one really well.Kate Youngblood is one of our two main protagonists. In her late 30s and divorced, she is an author and college professor at Blackwood college. Shes had some success with her first novel, a mediocre second and has struggled to write anything of substance since. She can feel herself disappearing from public view somewhat. At her age she is getting less and less attention from the opposite sex. No longer do heads turn when she walks down the street like they did when she was younger. She has never felt more alone or lonely.Sam Grist is Kates most promising student with an exceptional talent, writing quite dark subject matter. Kate has never seen a talent like his before. But Sam is there for more reasons than to learn to write. Hes been watching Kate. Obsessing over her since reading her debut novel 5 years ago. He has plans for her and he wont let anything or anyone get in the way of those plans. Its their destiny!This is a pretty straight forward story with a small case of characters. The story is told from both our main protagonists view point and works brilliantly. This is a love story of sorts, forbidden love in more ways than one. Sam of course is obsessed with Kate even though she is 16 years his elder and Kate is hugely drawn to Sam too. The excerpts where she feels the electricity of him standing close to her are brilliantly written and the waters become muddied as you do think they may fall in love, despite Sam being totally unhinged. You feel empathy for him at times and feel sorry for him and you cant help but feel sorry for Kate as her life spirals out of control and you realise she is in serious danger.I really enjoyed this one. The author kept this one tight and the whole focus being on the two viewpoints works brilliantly well. There is some real tension in this. Both characters are very well written and are essential to making this book work and thankfully they are very strong.Id have no hesitation in recommending this one. It was the sort of book I was really looking forward to picking up again when Id taken a break. No reading back a page or two to refresh my memory. the characters and the story were in my head vividly.Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.