Then She Was Gone

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One who transports you into the story that you forget to try to solve it because you're just so stunned by its beauty. Ellie Mack was vibrant, happy, smart, in love and only fifteen when she disappeared without a trace.

The suggested questions are intended to help your reading group find new and interesting angles and topics for your discussion. Ten years later, her family has evaporated – Ellie’s disappearance and the subsequent stress caused the breakdown Laurel’s marriage and her relationship. I wasn’t satisfied with the ending as there were still storylines that weren’t completely tied up and explained. I think the author got the information from the Medical study conducted by the University of Rochester.

How the author balances both stories and interweaves them into an amazingly realistic and beautiful conclusion can only be described in a word as brilliant.

There is absolutely nothing better than a blindsighted twist in a psychological thriller and unfortunately there wasn’t a single one in this book. A very suspenseful story, with an underlying sense of creepiness, and a novel way of telling a story. Also, I really enjoyed how she leaves us with little snippets of clues along the way for us readers to pick up on right away and start questioning and guessing how they fit into the story. Then ten years after her daughter's disappearance, she goes into a bakery after getting her hair cut, and meets a man named Floyd.Floyd is kind and sensitive and has a young daughter named Poppy, who looks inexplicably like Ellie. I usually really dislike predictable books and I usually figure out most mysteries which annoys me; not with this book though. Laurel begins questioning everything and those questions take her on a dangerous path, one she never envisioned. 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. the mystery/thriller stories i have read lately have been really predicable, so im starting a new game with myself where i predict what will happen before i read it, based solely on the synopsis.

The bad ones were good characters in so much that they were creepy and sinister while at the same time being damaged. She never in a million years could have predicted the shocking revelations her inquiries would uncover or the personal epiphanies that would change Laurel's life forevermore.The interesting fact is the way of disappearance of Noelle reminds of her the way of disappearance of her own daughter. also, i was super into the version of the story i had imagined before reading this and what actually happened feels… disappointing? Even though unconditional love is one of the ideal forms of love, it will be practical only with ideal individuals. Even though most parts and big twist are predictable, it was well written, breathtaking, fast pacing, captivating reading which ended in 5 hours. But it's fiction and it's part of a story and that's why it worked -- the writing supports it and carries you off into a world you cannot leave.

Jewell’s books last year and to say I’m now a fan would be as big of an understatement as ever written. When Then She Was Gone showed up on NetGalley last month, I immediately requested it and added it to my reading queue for April.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. 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. She lives in north London with her husband, two teenage daughters, one cat, one guinea pig and the best dog in the world. 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. But I think you left it a 3 star rating (I can't remember now, but definitely 3 or less), which lowers the overall rating for the book, which is a shame when it hasn't yet been published!