I enjoyed the authors last book, but this one I really could not put down. Cleverly constructed, the reader will be guessing right until the very end.

So I literally found myself turning these pages pretty fast because I wanted to see how it was going to end, We are introduced to Gemma who is a working momma her life is Rory and her business. Yet it seems she works more than she sees her son and she isn't too happy with that. When she goes to a meeting one weekend her life ends up spiraling out of control, the lies start adding up with her husband, she can't remember what happened that night of the conference, and to make matters worse someone is sending her messages.

Does something that happened to her over fifteen years ago play a part in her life now?

When it all came about I was kind of in shocked that it went that way because I honestly was not even thinking of this person being involved.

One thing I enjoyed the author doing is showing how marriage just is not easy going and happy all the time. We see how in Gemma's marriage there is that hostility there between the stay at home parent and working parent. It isn't meant to be that type of feeling but it can happen.

We do go back and forth from characters but it wasn't confusing at all which was great. The plot was a steady pace and kept me on the edge of my toes!

This was a definite page turner with some interesting twists. It starts with an event that happens 15 years ago and then moves to present time. The reader is taken on a roller coaster ride wondering what is going to happen next. A must for people looking for suspense.

The girl I used to be is a gentle thriller - if that's a category - that reminded me a lot of a cozy mystery. I never really felt that the lead character was in much danger. The situations she finds herself in just seemed uncomfortable but not really scary. The twist of who her stalker was came off well, but I wasn't sure I bought into the behavior of his accomplice.
As with so many thrillers these days, the style is reminiscent of "Gone Girl". In practice, this means that the book is relying on too many attempts to dance back and forth between points of view, the past, and the present.

I really enjoyed this book! There were many unexpected turns that were well thought out. When a book makes me go back through previous chapters and fact check the author, that is a good book to me. No random twists, everything was well plotted out from the beginning. I thought more than once "oh maybe...." nope. I was kept guessing all the way. I've started looking for other books by this author.

Story of a woman , Gemma who is being stalked/harassed by someone she met at a business dinner. The dinner started off innocently and went to far. Gemma goes back to her life with her stay at home husband and her son Rory. Soon her life begins to spiral out of control and she is telling her husband more and more lies. It was a fast read and had some interesting twists and turns. Good book for high school readers.

I enjoyed The Girl I Used to Be though it did not blow me away like Gone Without a Trace did. Gemma was an interesting character and the villain is truly dark, but parts of it were a tiny bit predictable. However, I did stay up late to finish it and it was better than your average thriller. Mary Torjussen has proven herself as a must-read author on the strength of these two books.

Gemma is dissatisfied with the arrangement she and her husband have made regarding work and childcare. In part, this dissatisfaction leads to a series of events that tie the present into a past event that changed her life forever.

This psychological thriller was a couldn’t put down kind of book. The story just flowed and kept my interest so I was reading into the late night hours. Gemma the main character had experienced a tragic past that she tried to put behind her. With a mystery man coming into her workplace and later nowhere to be seen it looks like her past is questionable and coming back to haunt her. I gave this book 5 stars and look forward to reading more by this author.

This is the story of a woman, Gemma, being harassed by someone after a relatively innocent dinner with a male client. She doesn't let her husband, Joe, know because she lied about what she was doing the night of the dinner. One lie leads to another until she's drowning in lies while still facing exposure by the man threatening her. The characters were believable, and I had a hard time putting the book down. There weren't any unexpected plot twists, it was pretty easy to see where the story was taking the reader, but I still enjoyed the character interaction. I gave the book 5 stars because it held my interest throughout and the characters were true to life.

Enjoyed this psychological thriller, however, it took close to three quarters of the story to get to what was really going on. Enjoy this author bout she needs to get to the point a lot faster and add more suspense.

A dinner with a prospective client goes horribly wrong for realtor, Gemma Brogan. She may have had one too many drinks, but can that explain the fact that she remembers almost nothing of the night after dinner? She begins to realize something is very wrong when she starts to get reminders of what actually happened that night, a picture of a kiss, audio of her complaining about her husband, and other, much worse little “surprises”. It’s clear that she’s being set up for blackmail, if she doesn’t cooperate, the incriminating video will be leaked. This was a seriously scary read, anyone who had too much “fun” at a party and can’t recall everything the next day will be able to put themselves in Gemma’s place. Torjussen puts a nice little twist int the story about Gemma’s past too. Highly recommended