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Unabridged Digital Audiobook
Runtime: 9 hours, 26 minutes
Read by Emily Ellet
Girls’ weekends are supposed to be fun-filled adventures, with good friends traveling together to enjoy some time away from the daily grind of work and families. But there’s nothing relaxing about the weekend reunion that takes place in the audio edition of The Girls Weekend by author Jody Gehrman.
The story reconnects with old friends—and old frienemies—with college professor June Moody. It’s been years since June has seen some of her closest college friends. They’ve just grown apart. So when Sadie, the Queen Bee of the group—and June’s old rival—invites them all to her fabulous home for the weekend to celebrate their friend Amy’s baby shower, June purposely makes other plans. When her plans fall through at the last minute, though, she reluctantly agrees to join in the festivities. But their fun girls’ weekend of reconnecting soon turns tense when Sadie goes missing and no one can remember what happened.
Old memories, old romances, and old rivalries are renewed as these old friends reunite. The trip is a difficult one for June because Sadie has everything that June always wanted—from her successful writing career to her charming and handsome husband, who proposed to June first before he moved on to Sadie—and being a guest in Sadie’s fabulous home brings all of the feelings of resentment flooding back. But June definitely isn’t the only one dealing with bitterness and resentment toward their host—so when Sadie goes missing in a suspicious way, no one is without a motive.
As the women piece together their fuzzy memories of the night—of the drunken adventures that somehow ended in disaster—they only bring with them more doubts and more questions. No one has answers. No one has an alibi. They all have reasons for resenting Sadie. And that makes them doubt themselves and their oldest friends. And when June comes under suspicion by the police, she realizes that someone is trying to pin the blame on her, which makes her even more suspicious of her friends.
June isn’t exactly the kind of strong, likable character that you’ll feel an instant connection with. In fact, she isn’t a very memorable character. But as she struggles to regain her memories and piece together the clues as to what happened to her old frienemy, you’re sure to get caught up in the mystery and drama.
The Girls Weekend is most likely unlike any girls’ trip you’ve gone on before—or at least I sure hope so! This isn’t the story of laughter and reminiscing and poolside cocktails. But the twisting mystery will definitely keep you engaged and entertained.
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