What a fun, twisted story! I loved the mash-up of romance, girls-weekend, whodunnit mystery, heal from past relationships vibes! I think this would be a really great book club read. It’s fast-paced, great from the first paragraph, highly enjoyable book.

I enjoyed this novel and will read more of Jody Gehrman's work. June Moody is reluctantly going to meet up with her college friends after being dumped by her current fling. She is going to the house of Sadie McTavish, a woman who has continuously competed and won against June, from their career to Sadie's luxurious life to Sadie's husband, a man who proposed to June first. The women wake up one morning to Sadie being missing, and they have no knowledge of the night before, but there is blood all over the house. I would recommend this novel to someone who likes mysteries, but I do think some of the twists are obvious if you are an avid thriller reader.

Solid novel, well written and good pace. I figured out the mystery pretty easily but overall enjoyed this book.

The Girls Weekend written by Jody Gehrman has an interesting plot - college friends reunite for a long weekend when Sadie MacTavish, a wealthy author, invites four friends to her sprawling estate for a long weekend and baby shower. June Moody dated Sadie's husband before Sadie did and has unresolved feelings toward him. After a night of drinking, the friends awake to find Sadie missing. No one has any memory of what happened during the night. As they try to solve the mystery of what happened to Sadie, everyone is a suspect, and secrets are revealed. Sadly, it is very difficult to like June. She comes across as whiny and unable to move on from the past. As more emerges about her college relationship, I could not figure out why, almost twenty years later, she is still hung up on her college boyfriend. The book feels very disjointed and, as much as I love thrillers, I would likely not have finished it had I been on a trip with few other options.

This book was the perfect weekend read. The synopsis sounded very interesting, and I'm always up for a Gone Girl type of book (also referenced in the story), and this book did not disappoint at all.

June is invited to a girls-only weekend with her college friends, most of whom she hasn't seen in a decade. She hesitates because of a longstanding rivalry with Sadie, the pushy, beautiful, famous member of the group. June changes her mind after she's dumped via text by her boyfriend and the story takes off from there, rolling nonstop. It's easy to see right off the bat why June has always had an issue with Sadie, who is controlling, condescending, and petty. She seems to have it all, but does she really? When Sadie disappears, everyone is a suspect, and the book left me guessing until the end. Each chapter pointed me toward a different suspect and I loved being on my toes the entire time. I will definitely be checking out other books by this author.

The Girls Weekend by Jody Gehrman was a fun and enjoyable read whilst getting ready to travel. It only took me just over two hours to finish the novel. Overall, I greatly enjoyed this book and look forward to what else Jody Gehrman has to offer in the future.

The Girls Weekend has everything that i enjoy in a good thriller, complicated characters, old romances and a reunion. When June gets an invite to a baby shower by her old college friends she doesn't want to go, knowing that it is taking place at her ex-best friends mansion. Who she believes has the life that June should have lived. The perfect house, the perfect writing career, the perfect husband, the perfect daughter, money and fame. Why would she want to go back to the woman who she had such a bittersweet rivalry with until Sadie seemingly won? After Sadie tragically goes missing, who do you trust in a house full of people you no longer know?

The anger and bitterness between each of the characters seemed real and well thought out. I spent half of the book not knowing who to believe and the final twist was unexpected.


A solid 4/5 star read.

Sadie McTavish isn’t the most liked. The host of this girls weekend. Most people, in her life all share the same feelings.

Then the weekend getaway happens. People start ending up dead, and as Agatha Christie would say, “ Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.”

Is it one of them?

Love a good, quick, mystery. Absolutely wonderful read.

Hangover meets Knives Out waltzes with “And Then There Were None” vibes!

A great summary of vacation book: Best 5 friends’ reunion at least likeable but wealthier one’s estate in the San Juan Islands. But the least likeable a.k.a. control freak bitch disappears.

Her 17 year daughter of the least likeable and now missing, probably murdered friend, is more annoying than her mother (yes she reminds us of Rosemary’s baby: we haven’t seen her/his image and Polanski’s movie but as you think about the father with horns and long tail, you may imagine what kind of child, she will become!) and the desperate father hits on main heroine June!

I didn’t introduce you those five women (once upon a time living dangerously, thick as thieves but right now every of them are facing their troubled adulthood!)
June, community college English professor, indie author (her book is not shelved anymore), dumped by a text comes from bastard boyfriend who runs with his half aged girlfriend to Amsterdam. Now she needs to accept her ex best friend and old nemesis Sadie’s invitation. The very same woman who got married her love of her life after she rejected his marriage proposal (same man hitting on her throughout their holiday gathering!)

Sadie seems like have-it-all: June’s ex-lover Ethan as charming husband, a beautiful (also Chucky’s bride)daughter Dakota (reminded me of Dakota Johnson who gets aggressive when she finds out her mother Melanie rejects to watch her amazing performance at FSOG), a mansion, a rising career at the literature industry. Of course June is jealous about her.

June’s bestie Em is also having her dream career and a great relationship, cool, casual, loyal but she keeps a big secret from her past only Sadie knows.

Amy is suffering from bi-polar, related with Sadie who takes care of her and also controlling her life, is pregnant (that’s why they gathered for her baby shower!) but she keeps baby’s father as secret.


And Kimiko (Japanese Italian) works in her dispenser, raising her problematic son, a little aggressive, mostly stoned with weed or drunk because of too many gin tonics, one of the volatile and unpredictable characters.

So those girls get drunk and afterwards they don’t remember anything. Somebody roofied them. And Sadie is nowhere to be seen. There is blood on the walls. So what the hell happened that night? Who has been drugged them? Nope, not Zach Galifianakis!

June is prime suspect because she secretly met with Sadie’s husband. She hates the guts of Sadie. Em hates her because Sadie will spill the beans about her big secret. Amy hates her because Sadie will take her baby and raise the baby as hers. Kimiko hates her because of common financial issues. Ethan hates her they had problematic marriage and Dakota hates her because she already casted as Anastasia Steel but her mother wants to end her acting career (Ha ha! I tested you to make sure you’re still reading. Nope: her mother pushes her go to Yale but she wants to be actress and get her education at UCLA)So everyone can be murderer and everyone has motive. So who did it?

What I hate about the book: Too many annoying characters and predictable conclusion.

What I like about the book: It was fun when all those crazy women got tense and started to fight with each other. It was like regular episode of Bachelor. I got my popcorn accompanied with Cabernet when I was reading those parts and laughed so hard. I wish they start to fist fight or pull each other’s hair (I know I’m so bad!)

The fast pacing, claustrophobic one place mystery with high tension picked my interest and I never got bored till the end. It was easy, entertaining, riveting page-turner.

I went back and forth between three and four stars but I guess it was better than most of my mediocre books-let’s meet in the middle and call them Switzerland books- so I’m rounding up 3.5 stars to 4!

Special thanks to NetGalley and Crooked Lane Books for sharing this entertaining ARC in exchange my honest review.

Thank you NetGalley and Crooked Lane Books for the opportunity to read this ARC of The Girls weekend. I very much enjoyed this book, could not put it down. I will watch for more books by Jody Gehrman. The story line kept my attention and moved along at a good pace. This was a good suspense novel. Characters were well introduced and easy to follow.
Just a quick overview, this story was about five girlfriends who haven't seen each other in over 10 years. They are invited for a get together for a long weekend reunion and to celebrate one of the girls, Amy, who is about 8 months pregnant June is the main character and she and Em take off in their car to meet up with 3 other girls at Sadie's home. Sadie is an accomplished writer who is married to an old boyfriend of June's. June is leery of going as it may dredge up old feelings towards not only Sadie but her husband. The first couple of days together we learn more about the five friends and before we know it, there is the disappearance of Sadie that now needs to be solved. June does a good job along side Em trying to figure who did what and why all the while trying to regain some memory lapse from the previous evening due to what they think was drug induced. Read this book to find out who did what!!
Overall a great read and i really enjoyed this book.

I enjoyed the "Clue" like mystery of the Girl's Weekend. The premise is five college friends connect to celebrate the pregnancy of one of the five. Old habits die hard and the fun girls weekend quickly takes a turn for the worse. After a night of celebrating, one woman goes missing and the other four are left to put the pieces back together. I didn't find this book incredibly suspenseful, but it was entertaining. I thought some of the word choices of the author were in poor taste and did not speak to cultural understanding very well.

This was definitely a fun thriller read! Thank you to Netgalley and Crooked Lane Books for sending this my way early to read and review :)

If you like Ruth Ware, I think you'd love this one! The plot focuses around five college friends all together for a reunion---but when they wake up on Day 2, one of them has disappeared. There's blood on the stairs and the house is a mess. Even worse, no one can remember what happened the night prior, and they all think they were drugged.

As tensions grow high, everyone becomes a suspect. What happened to Sadie? Who can they trust? How well do they REALLY know each other? There are so many twists and turns in this book, it will completely leave you guessing until the very last page!

I recommend this to all my new-er thriller lovers out there :)

This was my first read by this author and I was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed it. Five college friends reuniting for a girls weekend to celebrate one's pregnancy. Waking up on the second morning to find their hostess missing and an entire evening pretty much erased from the remaining four's memories. As the story progresses, we find that each one has reasons to want her out of the picture.

Definitely a page turner with lots of twists and turns along the way.

This was an enjoyable spin on a whodunnit mystery. Five friends reconnect years after they have drifted apart to celebrate Amy's pregnancy with a baby shower. Unfortunately, it seems that some of them still may be harboring grudges against one another. When one of them goes missing after a night of drinking, and the others wake up with patchy memories of the previous night, they have to try to piece together clues about what actually happened that night. Could one of the Fearless Five really have done something to Sadie?

While I enjoyed this missing-time mystery, the author's use of Native terms like "tribe" and "powwow" were problematic and distracting. I would hope to not see this kind of appropriation in a book published in 2020.

I tried to get into this read but for some reason it just missed the mark. I don't know if it was the main characters or if it just wasn't the right time for me to read it. I am sure that some may really enjoy the mystery, but for me it feel short.

I loved the set up for this story - friends reuniting at their much more successful and famous friend's mega mansion in an isolated locale. And then that much more successful and famous friend goes missing. Only nobody can remember what happened the night she vanished.

I adored the setting and descriptions were fantastic. I felt like I could clearly picture everything in my mind.

The dynamics among the women felt very authentic and it was fun to see jealousies and old feuds come to life. I felt like the author showed us a side of the characters people don't want to admit they relate to but is actually ultra-relatable. I also found everyone's secrets and lies to be very well-revealed and made the book a fast read I didn't want to put down.

While I did basically guess what had happened almost immediately after the missing woman vanished, it was still a super fun ride to reach a satisfying conclusion.

Imagine getting together for a girls weekend with your old college buddies... and then one of them goes missing. What would you do? I’d imagine your reaction might be quite different than what you read in this book by Jody Gehrman. At first the premise had my attention, but the characters aren’t very likeable — but they’re also not fun to hate either. I almost gave up this book many times, and probably should have. It simply fell flat.

Easy read a good choice for those who enjoy a whodunnit themed book.

The story is based upon a group of friends who met in college 15+ years before meeting up for a weekend together. All live idyllic lives- at least that’s what they try to portray. The reality is as in everyday life everyone does not have a perfect life.

One of the friends goes missing- they realise this after a heavy night drinking and finding blood stains on walls and the house in disarray. No one can remember what happened.....or so they say.

Thanks to Netgalley for providing me with this e-ARC in exchange for my honest review.

The events of The Girls Weekend take place over mostly two days- the day that June Moody arrives at her frenemy Sadie's beautiful estate for a girls' reunion, and the next morning, when June and the others awake to find that they have few memories of the night before- and that Sadie is missing. While this was a fairly good thriller, it didn't "wow" me in any way. I found the characters to be a little unlikeable and unbelievable, and I didn't connect as much with the main character Moody as much as I would have liked.

I was immediately drawn to The Girls Weekend by Jody Gehrman because I love books with groups of people who either have to survive something (like Force of Nature by Jane Harper) or have to survive each other (such as Shari Lapena’s novel, An Unwanted Guest).

This book exceeded my expectations! The author did a fantastic job with the plot and keeping the tension tight all the way through.

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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 was honestly wondering who did it and why? Everyone had a motive. Usually, I can figure things out pretty early on in books like this but I was reading quickly to find out what truly happened. You might want to read this one in a single sitting as the mystery and intrigue keep you glued to the pages!

I cannot wait to see what Jody writes next!

You can pre-order the book here, will be delivered to your Kindle on June 9.

Love love loved this!! I can’t wait to have this for our book of the month in my book club! This is an extremely well written page turner. Packed full of twists and turns that kept me guess every page!