#Greer Hendricks

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Currently Listening: The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen

Definitely want to know what is happening and what will happen. Everything is building kind of slowly, and I'm liking that. My only complaint so far is that there are two POVs in the book, and the narrator doesn't do much to differentiate the two.

[kermitkarmz]

*Google summary*

The Golden Couple is a psychological thriller by Sarah Pekkanen and Greer Hendricks. It tells the story of a “consultant,” Avery Chambers—a former therapist who lost her license due to misconduct. The story centers on Avery as she helps a married couple, Marissa and Matthew Bishop, heal from Marissa’s marital infidelity. The couple appears to be making progress until the book’s pivotal twist is revealed: Matthew is only pretending to forgive Marissa and has been orchestrating a plot to kill Marissa and the man she had an affair with, Skip, all along.

5 ⭐️ read. I couldn’t put my finger on who exactly is behind the madness between Marissa, Mathew, or Skip. I definitely thought it was Skip at one point. I was shocked when Skip and Avery formulated a plan to help Marissa by the end of the book, and didn’t expect Avery to be the one who pulled the trigger that killed Mathew when he was about to kill Marissa and Skip. A perfect psychological thriller book.

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Books of 2025 #27

The Sublet by Greer Hendricks

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Title: The Sublet

Author: Greer Hendricks

Series or standalone: standalone

Publication year: 2025

Genres: fiction, mystery, thriller, suspense, contemporary

Blurb: Anne is barely keeping it together. A frazzled ghostwriter and aspiring novelist, she juggles 9-year-old twins and a listless marriage from an overcrowded Manhattan apartment, spreading herself thinner each day. Just as Anne is about to give up on her dreams, she lands her biggest client: Melody Wells. Melody paints a picture of serenity and empowerment in the lavender haze of her visualisation workshops...but the one thing she can't manifest is the pages her publisher is demanding for her new motivational book. Enter Anne. As Melody invites Anne deeper into her magical world, Anne finds herself working impossibly long days and travelling far beyond her comfort zone. When Melody passes along a lead on a spacious sublet complete with East River views, built-in closets, and three bedrooms, Anne can't believe her luck. Melody seems to know just what her family needs...but as small, unsettling incidents begin to accumulate, Anne starts to wonder what price she's willing to pay for the good life.

[leksivoz]

I quite randomly downloaded this book, just because I liked the idea that it starts with this picture-perfect couple, whose life seems like an ideal Instagram post, but on the closer look it is one big hot mess. It's actually a topic me and my friend were discussing recently - a lot of stuff, that you hear from people about their lives or see on their social media, is just a piece of truth, an edited version, so there is no point in comparing yourself with anyone.

Anyway, back to the book. Usually I'm not the biggest fan of thrillers, written or filmed, but this one went down easy. The atmosphere of suspense was slowly building up and the further into the story you are, the more you want to know how everything is connected and what really happened. This is the first book I've finished in quite some time, so I definitely would recommend it.

There is one smaller storyline about pharmaceutical company trying to cover up unsuccessful drug trial by any means and still put that drug on the market. As someone who works in pharma industry it just makes me so mad, because it actually could happen in real life, since some companies see medicines as a way to make money and forget the main purpose of their product - to heal people.

[anwhitebooks]

The Golden Couple: Contrived and underwhelming

Spoiler-Free Review I read The Wife Between Us by this same author duo a year ago and was underwhelmed – I had guessed the major plot twist. So I wanted to give The Golden Couple a try to see if I might like it better…I didn’t. I think these authors just aren’t for me. What’s The Golden Couple about? An ex-therapist with a revoked license (who still does “consultations”) agrees to help a…

[shafershouse]

Books Read: 2018

January 

Carrie (Stephen King) 

reread

The Shunning (Beverly Lewis)

February

The Tale of Despereaux (Kate DiCamillo)

reread

March

The Shining (Stephen King)

reread

April

Survive! (Les Stroud)

May

Full Dark, No Stars (Stephen King)

reread

June

11/22/63 (Stephen King)

reread

July

5 Love Languages (Gary Chapman)

Four Past Midnight (Stephen King)

Catherine, Called Birdy (Karen Cushman)

reread

August

Insomnia (Stephen King)

September

Alice In Wonderland / Through The Looking Glass (Lewis Carroll)

October

so much creepypasta

The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)

November

The Great Alone (Kristin Hannah)

December

Different Seasons (Stephen King)

reread

The Green Mile (Stephen King)

reread

An Anonymous Girl (Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen)

The Nightingale (Kristin Hannah)

The Last Time I Lied (Riley Sager)

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Favorite Reads of September '23

“Books have formed the soul of me. I know that spiritual formation is of God, but I also know—mainly because I learned it from books—that there are other kinds of formation, too, everyday gifts, and that God uses the things of this earth to teach us and shape us, and to help us find truth.”― Karen Swallow Prior, Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir  Beth Moore.…

[kickbutts-singsongs]

Come watch Person of Interest! We have:

Mr. Bird

Say Goodbye To Your Kneecaps Man

Badass single mom

Grumpy teddy bear

de beste hond

Unhinged lesbian

Unhinged bisexual

Keith Mars

M o t h e r

Mr. Bird’s soulmate

Dead best friend

Dead girlfriend

HR

Control Freak

evil man. evil

Mike Wheeler’s mom

God

Evil God

Leslie Odom Jr.

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The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen

The blurb for this book is so vague, but so good. From Goodreads:

When you read this book, you will make many assumptions.

You will assume you are reading about a jealous ex-wife.

You will assume she is obsessed with her replacement – a beautiful, younger woman who is about to marry the man they both love.

You will assume you know the anatomy of this tangled love triangle.

Assume nothing.

I really liked this book. It really had me questioning everything, and although I usually am not a fan of thrillers, I did like this, since it was fairly toned down, and the tension was created by my doubts and suspicions, not on silly plots devices.

Content Warnings: abortion, abuse, adultery, fertility issues, stalking

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I was tagged by @wheneverfeasible and @spectrum-spectre; thanks, pals!

Last song: Dancing in the Moonlight by King Harvest

Favorite color(s): Melon and Turquoise

Last book: An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen (pretty mid thriller)

Last movie: Spy x Family Code: White

Last TV show: Currently rewatching season 2 of Arcane

Sweet/Savory/Spicy: Sweet

Relationship status: Still single, asexual, and very happy about it lol

Last Google: I don't use Google lol--shameless plug for Firefox and Qwant--but the last thing I searched was "onxy storm ai fanart controversy." ...what a time to be alive /derogatory

Looking forward to: Enjoying free time this weekend to watch TV, read, and hopefully write

10 people I’d like to get to know better: @queenie-ofthe-void @ataliagold @highkingpenny @formosusiniquis @tinytalkingtina @eriquin @zerokrox-blog @steddie-island @penny00dreadful @bifuriouswaterbender and anyone else who sees this and wants to do it!

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i did intend to try my hand at making fleur in veilguard but got cold feet in the last moment because for some reasons i fear it might not align with what you have in mind 😭 now that you say you would recreate them, yay (๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧ but for reference would you mind sharing some descriptions for fleur (and colombe and couteau if you are free, like no need to be concrete bc i know you said you would need to go through all of your works again and it sounds like a lot so whatever crumbs you can give is good to me)

Aww, you don’t need to have cold feet! This is just my interpretation of the characters, you can build them up however you like! I’d like to see more interpretations of them, see how other people see them, maybe you can influence me too, I’m very easily swayed lmao.

For your question now; while I don’t have what I wrote about them already fully in mind, I have come to have this sort of abstract vision of them - that may or may not contradict what I’ve written.

So, I’m going to give Actors who I thought resembled what I imagined them to be; these are not 1:1, but sort of the same characteristics that stand out to me about them.

For Fleur I drew up, very subconsciously and again not 1:1, around Sarah Shahi. Anahita is, above all, a Persian name and I think once I dreamed up her backstory, Shahi just sort of filtered in. Shahi is a small woman, which is also what I thought Fleur to be, very closely resembling Mantillon in that too. The dark eyes, sharp features, and black hair also line up pretty well to what I imagined her to be. Again, not sure what I’ve actually written, but yeah, lmao.

For Colombe…. I don’t think I’ve ever said this outside of shouting in my head or in DMs but for Celene I always imagined her like Elizabeth Debicki; super pale hair, statuesque, pale blue eyes, very thin. Debicki has very sharp angles to her, which I think lines up well with Celene’s description, but also looks a bit fragile - which, yes, excellent. For Colombe to closely resemble her I’ve thought about Robin Wright; the angles are a bit softer, but the colouring is almost pretty much the same. Wright also has a sturdier look to her, which I think matches Colombe very well. They’d be closer in height than the real actresses are IRL, but I imagine Celene to be pretty tall, so I’d add height to Colombe’s Wright probably.

For Couteau, idk why but I always picture a dark-haired redhead, almost auburn. Judy Greer or Julianne Moore, but more resembling Christina Hendricks?? Idk there is no reason, the vibes are just there lmao.

(For added bonus, even though you did not ask at all; Cyril I always imagined Alexander Vlahos, from my fav awful historical TV Show Versailles (beloved beloathed) - the historical figure he plays there is also who I based a lot of Cyril on. For Briala I imagined a cross between two models; Khadijha Red Thunder and Felicia Porter, but I don’t think either of them really get the look of how I imagined her down.)

Again, these are not 1:1 and more sort of abstract pictures in my head, but if I was forced to pick someone to portray them, I think these would be it - sort of, god knows what I would do with the mixes lmao.

Again, thanks for the ask; I hope it helped!

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A recommended reading list of books I own and have read

A Demon in my View by Ruth Rendell

A Judgment in Stone by Ruth Rendell

A Place Called Freedom by Ken Follett

A Season in Purgatory by Dominick Dunne

A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins

A Spy in the House of Love by Anais Nin

All Around the Town by Mary Higgins Clark

An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Angels & Demons by Dan Brown

Anthem by Ayn Rand

Bag of Bones by Stephen King

Bellefleur by Joyce Carol Oates

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Breaking Blue by Timothy Egan

Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll

Carrie by Stephen King

Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas

Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

Crank by Ellen Hopkins

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson

Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean

Dead Run by Erica Spindler

Dream Girl by Laura Lippman

Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Every Breath You Take by Ann Rule

Every Secret Thing by Laura Lippman

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Fatal Flowers by Rosemary Daniell

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews

Garden of Shadows by V.C. Andrews

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott

Go Ask Alice by Anonymous

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Good Girls Lie by J.T. Ellison

Green River, Running Red by Ann Rule

Help the Poor Struggler by Martha Grimes

High Lonesome by Joyce Carol Oates

I Am the Only Running Footman by Martha Grimes

I Know You Know by Gilly Macmillan

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg

If You Really Loved Me by Ann Rule

In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

Into the Water by Paula Hawkins

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Just Kids by Patti Smith

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Lost Souls by Lisa Jackson

Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll

Menfreya in the Morning by Victoria Holt

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Midnight in Soap Lake by Matthew Sullivan

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

My Life as a Rat by Joyce Carol Oates

My Sweet Audrina by by V.C. Andrews

Never Look Back by Alison Gaylin

Night Gaunts by Joyce Carol Oates

Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger

Nowhere Like Home by Sara Shepard

Over Tumbled Graves by Jess Walter

Pearl in the Mist by V.C. Andrews

Petals on the Wind by V.C. Andrews

Pursuit by Joyce Carol Oates

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Return to Sender by Craig Johnson

Ruby by V.C. Andrews

Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb

Slenderman by Kathleen Hale

Small Sacrifices by Ann Rule

Southern Cross by Patricia Cornwell

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

Suicide Blonde by Darcey Steinke

Summer by Edith Wharton

Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

The 9th Girl by Tami Hoag

The Accursed by Joyce Carol Oates

The Anodyne Necklace by Martha Grimes

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

The Blooding by Joseph Wambaugh

The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins

The Butterfly Girl by Rene Denfeld

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Cutler series by V.C. Andrews

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware

The Deer Leap by Martha Grimes

The Doll Master by Joyce Carol Oates

The Elizas by Sara Shepard

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell

The Female of the Species by Joyce Carol Oates

The Gemma Doyle trilogy by Libba Bray

The Girl Before by J.P. Delaney

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

The Girl who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

The Hudson series by V.C. Andrews

The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins

The It Girl by Ruth Ware

The Logan series by V.C. Andrews

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

The Lying Game by Sara Shepard

The Old Contemptibles By Martha Grimes

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Prince of Lost Places by Kathy Hepinstall

The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence

The Right Hand of Evil by John Saul

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

The Shining by Stephen King

The Shivering Sands by Victoria Holt

The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls

The Stand by Stephen King

The Strange Beautiful by Carla Crujido

The Sundial by Shirley Jackson

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

The Third Twin by Ken Follett

The Tommyknockers by Stephen King

The Torn Skirt by Rebecca Godfrey

The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware

The Turn of the Screw & Daisy Miller by Henry James

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn

The Yellow Wallpaper, Herland, and Selected Writings by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

Under the Bridge by Rebecca Godfrey

Vanish by Tess Gerritsen

Villette by Charlotte Bronte

Wait for Me by Sara Shepard

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

Watching You by Lisa Jewell

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

What Remains of Me by Alison Gaylin

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

White Oleander by Janet Fitch

Wonderland by Joyce Carol Oates

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

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TBR List for 2025

Free Fall by Nicolai Lilin

The Breath of the Dark by Nicolai Lilin

A Place I've Never Been by David Leavitt (ENG)

The View From the Ground by Martha Gellhorn (ENG)

The Godfather Returns by Mark Winegardner

Tchipayuk or The Way of the Wolf by Ronald Lavallée

Azincourt by Bernard Cornwell

Maestro by Geir Tangen

Codice Shakespeare by Elvira Siringo

The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly by Luis Sepúlveda

The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Pötzsch

The Angelic Avengers by Karen Blixen

White Gardenia by Belinda Alexandra (ENG)

Castles by Julie Garwood (ENG)

The Lion's Lady by Julie Garwood (ENG)

The Demons by Fëdor Dostoevskij

Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie (FRE)

The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit (ENG)

An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen (ENG)

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

Women Who Run With The Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Nana comic (ebook)

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath ⏳

W.I.T.C.H. comic (ENG) [ch.17]

The Beauty of Everything by Soetsu Yanagi (ENG)

Nada by Carmen Laforet (SPA)

Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys (ENG)

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh (ENG)

The Laugh of Medusa by Hélène Cixous (ENG)

Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag (ENG)

The Body in Pain by Elaine Scarry (ENG)

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2023 Book List

Another good reading year for the books! This year I embarked on my first experience with a book club which has been a life long desire of mine! I can confidently say that in participating in it, I've been pushed to be more consistent in my literary pursuits as well as broaden the genres of books I normally gravitate towards.

My goal this year was to read 40 books which I'm happy to report I have surpassed! Last year, I reached for an ambitious 50, in which I sadly fell short. Moving forward, 45 seems to be the sweet spot for my reading habits.

This year, I've decided to split my reviews into genres of books to cover more ground and give a more focused scope.

1: Biographies:

This year I read a wide range of people's stories from the hyped up "I'm Glad My Mom Died" by Jenette McCurdy to Spare by Prince Harry, to lesser known titles such as Sex Cult Nun by Faith Jones and Invisible Boy by Harrison Mooney.

Notable reads for me were Untamed by Glennon Doyle, I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jenette McCurdy, The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre for there strong writing, concise story, and depth of emotion.

2: Reese's Bookclub Picks

Anyone who knows me, is aware of my deep love of Reese's book club picks. She just never misses on the books she recommends and I've become an avid follower of her for this reason.

The ones I read this year are: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman, Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister, and Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng.

All of them were great.

3: General Modern Romance

Perhaps one of my favourite genres, I read a great many books in this category.

Honorable mentions for great characters and story are The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary, Beach Read by Emily Henry, Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez, A Wedding in Provence by Kate Fforde, The Wake Up Call by Beth O'Leary, and The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion.

4: General Thriller

This is also a fun category for me and the ones that stood out this year for good twists were All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda, The Golden Couple by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, and Greenwich Park by Kathrine Faulkner.

5: General Fiction

One of my proudest accomplishments this year was reading Dune by Frank Hubert. Other standouts were Weyward by Emilia Hart and The Best Kind of People by Zoe Whittall. Both told captivating stories of nuanced people and circumstances.

As always, thanks for following along my reading journey.

You can follow along on Goodreads under the username: Laura Marazzi which can be found here: Laura Marazzi - Abbotsford, BC, Canada (378 books) | Goodreads

Happy reading!