Then She Was Gone

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Laurel usually doesn't take chances, but after the last clue in Ellie's case was discovered, Laurel is ready to put her life back on track. Thank you to Random House UK, Cornerstone Arrow for providing a digital ARC of Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell for review.

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. So many questions without answers can wear a person down, can leave a hole, and can prevent a person from fully moving on with one's life. I loved this book ,the characters were engaging I especially felt for Laurel who had lost her daughter and was struggling to come to terms with it and in the process lost her husband and remaining children a little as.A very suspenseful story, with an underlying sense of creepiness, and a novel way of telling a story.

Jewell builds a gripping novel around a maze of dark secrets, a tautly wound psychological thriller in which the suspense builds slowly. In Then She Was Gone she has created a book that is dark and claustrophobic but also heartfelt and moving. Jewell teases out her twisty plot at just the right pace, leaving readers on the edge of their seats. Ten years after her teenage daughter went missing, a mother begins a new relationship only to discover she can't truly move on until she answers lingering questions about the past. Did she really run away from home, as the police have long suspected, or was there a more sinister reason for her disappearance?This is not a cliched version of fiction with a bunch of peripatetic perfunctory characters with a mandatory twist at the end to consider it as a thriller. I kept hoping something exciting would happen to prove me wrong, but it really is as obvious as it seems.

Before he died, it seems, Felix Vodyanov was linked to a passenger ferry that sank in 1994, an even earlier U.Multiple other studies show different results with people's rational brain fully developed before or after this age. Every morning was a flurry of mascara and butterflies, quickening pulse as she neared the school gates, blooming joy as her eyes found him. After ten long years, her mother, Laurel Mack, finds her new love, Floyd, after divorcing her first husband. Ten years later, her mother finds new love (divorced her ex-husband though they still remain friends) and slowly learns of connections to her missing child who was feared dead.

She is shocked to see that his youngest daughter, Poppy has a strong resemblance to her daughter, Ellie.But Jewell uses some clever disguises regarding timing that make it complicated, and when you do figure it out about 2/3 of the way thru, you have to stop for a few minutes and think about all the repercussions, Then, it all adds up.