Gerry Andersen is a brilliant author who has been confined to his luxurious apartment after a freak accident. His world has shrunk to his nurse, his assistant, and his agent. Gerry's world is rocked when he receives a phone call from somebody claiming to be Aubrey, the main character of his best-selling novel. Gerry knows that there is no real Aubrey that could call him and assumes it is one of his exes trying to exact some sort of revenge. When the calls start to increase in frequency, he doesn't know what to do or who to turn to for help. Is he losing his mind or is someone out to get him?
Let me be clear, Gerry Andersen is a horrible human being. I wanted to compare Dream Girl to the Stephen King classic, Misery, but beyond the recovering author, there are no similarities. Dream Girl has a real noir kind of feeling to it, mostly because of Gerry's personality, I think. As Gerry reflects on his life to figure out why somebody would do this, the reader uncovers his major personality flaws. He is a horrible human being, but as we start to recognize his flaws, Gerry never does. Which is perhaps his worst flaw. There was no figuring it out for me. There were so many paths the author could have taken in Gerry's story. The ending really did surprise me. CLICK HERE FOR SPOILERS.
Bottom Line - As much as I loathed Gerry Andersen, I couldn't stop reading to find out what was going to happen to him. And those are the kind of books that I love!
Details:
- Dream Girl by Laura Lippman
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- Pages: 320
- Publisher: William Morrow
- Publication Date: 6/22/2021
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- Thank you to NetGalley for the book in exchange for a review.
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