“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 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 … 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.
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Riveting, chilling, and page-turning. Be prepared to stay up all night.
So I find stalker books fascinating. It’s like watching a car accident, you know you shouldn’t stare but you can’t look away. I would never wish this on anyone in real life but in a book it’s always interesting to read. I liked this book for it had both points of view in it. There were points when I wish the two main characters would get together but I think it was more of what Kate was feeling then what really should happen. I did enjoy this book from start to finish, like any book there are parts I could have done without but overall it was a good book.
*Thank you NetGalley for allowing me to read this for my honest opinion*
Sam Grist has met his “one,” in his mind anyway, and has been planning their future for close to five years now, he is completely consumed with thoughts of her and starting a life with her… now he just has to work up the nerve to actually talk to her and formally meet her.
College professor Kate Youngblood has hit an all time low, first her husband leaves her for another woman, a younger version at that, and now her second novel has tanked. She is lonely, heartbroken about her husband replacing her, and craves a little attention… little does she know she has drawn the attention of one of her students, and he has plans for her!
When you settle down with this one prepared to have your mind toyed with and your boundaries pushed… Watch Me is quite an intense thriller!! It is certain to captivate your attention from the very first page, and with each page that follows the more addicted you will become, it had me teetering on the edge of my seat the whole way through. This was my first experience with this authors work, and I have to say I was quite impressed with what I found, her well crafted tale kept me completely enthralled from start to finish! Highly recommend this one, it’s sure to take you on a thrilling literary escape!!
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this title.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for allowing me to read and review this book.
Watch Me by author Jody Gehrman is a suspenseful psychological thriller about obsession. As you start reading the book and realize the chapters are written as a narrative alternately between Kate and Sam, you know it is going to be good. This is a compelling story with two very different people who long for something just out of their grasp.
Kate Youngblood is a published author in her thirties who is having some difficulties editing her current book. She is under pressure from her agent to revise and make some changes before the book is accepted for publishing. The first book was a successful best seller while the second book fell short of Kate’s expectations. Her day job is a creative writing professor with mostly mediocre students. But there is one student who gets her attention.
Sam Grist is a twenty-two year old student who lives by his own code. He attends Kate Youngbloods class and is writing his first book. Sam has become obsessed and has a fixation on Kate. He watches her at the campus and while she is in her home.
Kate is going through a time of disillusion in her own life and is flattered by Sam’s attention. Will Kate cross a line between teacher and student? How far will Sam go to claim Kate for himself? Kate and Sam start a dangerous dance of desires and control which will lead to disaster.
Fantastic plot, excellent character traits of both the protagonist and antagonist. I loved the metaphors used in her writing.
I wasn’t sure I’d like this book but it pulled me in. It is written as two voices so the reader learns more about each person’s motivation as the story builds. It is “scary” not as in horror but in how easily a person can be fooled by another.
Aside from the sprinkling of descriptive adult subjective matter words which was not my cup of tea this book was great. A college teacher is being stalked unbeknownst to her by one of her students. Sam Grist is in love with Kate Youngblood his professor at Blackwood College. He will do anything to be with her in the future he has imagined the two of them living. The story told by Kate and Sam from their prospective in alternate chapters is chilling from beginning to end. Sam’s focus on Kate begins as a reader when he reads her books and spirals into an obsession that becomes frightening. Kate, newly divorced and coming to terms with her friend who is newly pregnant and unable to spend as much time with her is vulnerable. A perfect scenario for a psychological thriller that you will not want to put down.
3.5 Stars
Watch Me is the first book of Jody Gehrman’s I’ve read and I am left with mixed feeling’s about it. The story was interesting and told in a very unique way. It rotated between Kate’s first person point of view and Sam’s second person point of view. The yous and yours of Sam’s sections really helped pull me into the story. Kate was a character I couldn’t connect with and the main reason I didn’t rate this book higher. I really wanted to like Kate, but the majority of the time I felt she was rather annoying. Being able to connect or at least enjoy the main character is very important to me and a large influence on how much I enjoy a book. The plot itself was great and I enjoyed the writing style. If I’d been able to connect better with the heroine, I would have definitely given this book more stars.
I voluntarily received an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.