Full review to be posted soonish.

I would like to thank the publisher and netgalley for providing me a free copy in exchange for an honest review.

I really enjoyed this and was grateful for the advanced copy, great characters and subject matter and an author to look out for in future!

Thanks NetGalley, Faber & Faber and Laura Lippman for advanced reader copy to review.
Laura Lippman is one of my favorite authors.
This book didn't disappoint.
I liked it.

Novelist Gerry Anderson was injured and is now confined to bed and is at the mercy of his assistant and home nurse who he hardly knows. He begins getting mysterious phone calls in the night from someone claiming to be a character from one of his books. This person keeps calling which is making Gerry this he is going crazy. There is no record of these calls on the call log.

This book wasn't what I had expected but it was still enjoyable. There were definitely some parts that were better than others but I didn't guess what happened in the end was what was going to happen.

This book will definitely make you think and make you question how you treat people.

I'm just so bored guys. There is slow burn, and then there is this painful meandering through a boring man's thoughts. A lot of reviews say nothing happens until about the halfway point and I just can't make it that far. DNF.

Poor Gerry Anderson: esteemed novelist, confined to his highrise after a freak accident, besieged with assistants and badgered by his ex. Gerry sees himself as a victim but not all agree, and someone is taking murderous measures to bring him to task. Who’ll outsmart whom in this game of cat and mouse?

A huge thank you to @Netgalley and @faberbooks for this ARC.

Laura Lippman doesn't get nearly the credit she should for her Baltimore based thrillers. They are such a slow burn and always satisfying.

The apartment alone in this one is so deliciously creepy and straight out of Hitchcock. This is a case of not really knowing what's real and what's not. Can a fictional heroine come to life and haunt the author who created her? So many twists and turns, it becomes impossible to put down.

Once I sat down with a few hours of undistracted time I flew through ‘Dream Girl’. Laura Lippman calls this her first horror novel. Even though it does have some similarities with Stephen King’s ‘Misery', this is not my idea of true horror and is more in line with a mystery/suspense thriller. Either way, it certainly is a page-turner with a great surprise ending.

i really enjoyed reading the mystery novel, it had what I enjoyed from this type of novels. The characters were so well done and I enjoyed going through this book.

Is Gerry Anderson going mad? He is an author and while on heavy doses of pain meds starts to receive phone calls from a woman claiming to be Aubrey, the name of the character in his bestselling book Dream Girl. This was a strange read for me with a timeline that jumps around. Not my favorite book by this author, but fast paced and worth checking out.

I have read most of the writers work. I found this sort of gripping but ultimately disappointing. The ending left me disappointed. I didn't like Amy of the characters

I always love Laura Lippman books, and chose for this to be my first read of 2022. I loved the format, and I truly felt like I was spiraling into madness alongside Gerry. I can definitely see why it was often compared to Stephen King, the story had a similar feel. I loved it!

Hmmm I didn't like this book but I finished it. Mainly because I was still trying to work out what it was that I didn't like.

There were both pros and cons and they seemed to cancel each other out enough to keep me reading. I can't explain it but it works for me.

Gerry, the main character is a divorced novelist who is also a dickhead. He's just moved from NY to his hometown to be closer to his mother who has since passed away. He's had an accident and is now stuck in bed in his glamorous new apartment while he recuperates. Except he doesn't know anyone in Baltimore so he hires an assistant and night nurse to help him out.
When he receives a letter from a fictional character of his, one begins to wonder about the medication that Gerry is on.

This is slow paced book and Gerry, the main character is just vile and I spent a long time disposing him.

Laura Lippman is such a fantastic writer. She has the knack of writing stories that are smart, twisted and well just sick you in.

Novelist Gerry Anderson has a double tear in his quadricep and is bound to his bed in his beautiful new apartment in Baltimore. Having moved from New York City to be near his mother, who has since passed from Alzheimer’s. He doesn't know anybody and is dependent on his recently hired assistant and night nurse for everything.
Gerry is a divorcee and to put it mildly a bit of an asshole. Things take an odd twist when Gerry begins to receive vaguely threatening telephone calls from a woman claiming to be Aubrey, the name of the character in his bestselling novel, Dream Girl. Aubrey claims she is real and he has done her wrong.

Gerry wonders if it's his meds that have made him hallucinate because surely all this can't be real. Is he forgetting things? Does he have Alzheimer's like his mother? Or has he really done wrong? As the danger increases Gerry is helpless and alone.

This slow-burn psychological thriller will hook you in and you can't wait to see how the story unfolds. It is a clever and compelling read.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for sending a digital ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Well written characters. Twists and turns that kept me guessing the entire time. Thoroughly enjoyed this thriller!

This was a wild ride. I was not expecting what I received going in, and it was a pleasant surprise. Dream Girl gets my vote for being unique, and Laura Lippman will be on my radar.

Full review to come on Goodreads and Amazon. Thank you to the publisher, author, and NetGalley for a review copy.

The flashbacks to when the narrator was young and married to the present time mysterious phone calls were great. The book started a bit slow, however, it picked up pace within a few chapters. I unfortunately wasn’t able to finish the entire book due to the access window closing, so I need to buy the book to find out from whom and where those calls were from!

Thank you to Netgalley, Laura Lippman, and the publisher for a copy of this E-arc in exchange for an honest review. This was an interesting take on a psychological thriller. I wasnt super thrilled while reading but did enjoy aspects of the story. Unfortunately, I really disliked Gerry and that kind of made the story fall flat for me. This was very well written and I would recommend giving it a try if the synopsis seems up your alley.

This review is long overdue. Read and wrote this review but I didn't know how to put it up here until now but here it goes! The synopsis of Dream Girl by Laura Lippman was the one that started it all for me. It took me about 25% before I fully got immersed in the book. I'm also not very fond of the main protagonist, Gerry. His traits are just plainly unlikeable to me and I do not like the idea in exploring his head as he was unreliable. I was also a bit annoyed by him to be honest. Heck I wouldn't want to meet this person if he was real. Anyway, how the story was told can be reflected to the way he was thinking since he was under the influence of drugs. I absolutely loved that thought! I wasn't really scared of the 'horror' aspect this book gave but I can say that the secomd part gave me the creeps. The book picks up as it goes so I suggest you keep reading. This is the first book that I read from Laura Lippman and will surely read more of hers in the future!