Then She Was Gone

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After 10 years have passed, the family finally gets some answers--what they don’t realize is how close they were to knowing the truth all along. I really find myself enamored with Jewell's characters, plots, and settings, so much that I've added ten of her other books to my TBR and hope to read a few more later this year.

even though my original guesses were wrong, its VERY obvious what will happen early on in the story, and so it just started to feel drawn out by the halfway point.When Then She Was Gone showed up on NetGalley last month, I immediately requested it and added it to my reading queue for April. A volcanic eruption is quite another, for, as the journalist who does a framing voice-over narration for Brooks’ latest puts it, when Mount Rainier popped its cork, “it was the psychological aspect, the hyperbole-fueled hysteria that had ended up killing the most people. More than a whiff of The Lovely Bones wafts through this haunting domestic noir from bestseller Jewell…Skillfully told by several narrators, Jewell’s gripping novel is an emotionally resonant story of loss, grief, and renewal. Her multilayered characters are sheer perfection, and even the most astute thriller reader won’t see where everything is going until the final threads are unknotted.

Not because the plot was stagnant but quite the opposite, it was speeding along so fast and with an outcome that seemed too terrible that I just had to stop, just until the next day when I furiously turned the pages to find out the mystery. As soon as their relationship become serious and she forms true bounding with Poppy, she surprisingly finds out the birth mother Noelle of Poppy who left her is the same woman who has tutored her daughter Ellie.This book is the tragic life story of Ellie, which will bring tears to your eyes if you are a compassionate human being. This is a true thriller to me as it contains an extremely deviant sociopath who is so mentally ill that it’s painful to read her thoughts. Heavner isn’t exactly mollified when Tempe, aided by retired police detective Skinny Slidell and a host of experts, puts a name to the dead man. If you've been active in the book community at all this month then you're sure to have noticed that Then She Was Gone is an April Pick by Book Of The Month, so naturally this is one that's being hyped for a reason-it's just that good! Jewell teases out her twisty plot at just the right pace, leaving readers on the edge of their seats.

I received a ARC of this novel from the publisher through Edelweiss, thank you, will post to public media upon publication. The mounting evidence of ever more and ever worse skulduggery will pull Tempe deeper and deeper down what even she sees as a rabbit hole before she confronts a ringleader implicated in “Drugs. Though I knew where it was going early on, I still truly enjoyed it and simply could not put it down! The mendacious mercurial nature of some characters in this book will rattle you to the extent of even making you nihilistic.I became invested in the feelings of Eliie’s mother, and as a mother of four daughters, I wanted so badly for things to somehow turn out that this poor woman didn’t have to continue without knowing what happened to her missing beautiful, intelligent, golden girl! In Then She Was Gone she has created a book that is dark and claustrophobic but also heartfelt and moving. As Laurel unravels the horrors of Poppy's origins and Floyd's true intentions, she comes to terms with the loss of her daughter and reconciling with the children she still has. Later she finds out that Floyd's nine-year-old daughter has striking similarities to her daughter Ellie.

I am super creeped out by listening to the endangered characters thoughts and knowing that they will come to a bad end. How can we understand that our partner is an ideal candidate for providing mutual love or unconditional love? I kept hoping something exciting would happen to prove me wrong, but it really is as obvious as it seems. Then unusual coincidences related to Laurel’s new boyfriend and also to Ellie begin occurring and things start to get unsettling for Laurel.From the New York Times bestselling author of Invisible Girl and The Truth About Melody Browne comes a “riveting” ( PopSugar) and “acutely observed family drama” ( People) that delves into the lingering aftermath of a young girl’s disappearance.