Then She Was Gone

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I think the author got the information from the Medical study conducted by the University of Rochester.

Ten years later, Ellie’s remains and her backpack are found, though the police are unable to determine the reasons for her disappearance and death. Readers will be truly affected by Ellie’s real story once it’s revealed —and they’ll be satisfied by the hopeful yet bittersweet ending.Gripping and heartbreaking, I shed more than a few tears as the book came to an end with a gut-wrenching epilogue. Her emergence from a tortuous state of limbo and her fierce determination to get to the truth, and begin truly living life again was an amazing transformation. Laurel, Ellie's mother, couldn’t understand how her other children and her husband were able to move on with their lives without knowing what happened to Ellie. She drifted away from her other two children, Hanna and Jake, and eventually she and her husband, Paul, divorced. In fact, I almost want to go back and read the book again knowing the conclusion and be more aware of the plot points I missed the first time around.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The further we get into the "then" chapters the harder it was to read them, I'd rather we didn't get Ellie's POV tbh. After last year’s fantastic I Found You , Lisa Jewell is on a roll with another fast paced and cleverly plotted psychological thriller … If this sounds quite run of the mill, it’s not. You definitely want to add this to your reading schedule ASAP, especially if you're looking for a read that is so gripping you'll fly right through it. Even though most parts and big twist are predictable, it was well written, breathtaking, fast pacing, captivating reading which ended in 5 hours.As you read, did you find yourself blaming characters for the unforeseen consequences of the choices they made? As you may imagine Laurel is devastated, barely holding up but one day she meets Floyd at a cafe, sharing a carrot cake and the charming, mysterious, charismatic mathematician blows her mind.

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. Although parts of the story are a little bizarre (Jewell says this herself in the Acknowledgements), she makes it work.I caught myself several times on the verge of getting emotional when reading the story of Laurel, whose daughter, Ellie, was kidnapped at age 15 and later found dead. But also there were times I did feel for her and even warmed up to her the more we go into the book but then she'd do some other stuff that I'd go back to not liking her a whole lot. The blending of multiple genres in each of her books really creates a unique reading experience; readers of every gender and walk of life have been able to connect with her writing and I feel that's a sure sign of the highest quality of writing. Floyd is the second loser in this lovely cast; when he discovers the true origins of his daughter, Poppy, he stalks Laurel, engineers a meeting with her and eventually falls for her. Changing tenses and changing narators the fast pace continued, new discoveries, and the insidious darkness beneath, kept me turning pages.

If a person who beholds the concept of unconditional love falls in love with a Narcissist, then the first person's life will be totally destroyed. When Then She Was Gone showed up on NetGalley last month, I immediately requested it and added it to my reading queue for April. And again with Floyd it seemed like one too many things there that I'm not entirely sure how we should feel about it. 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. After ten long years, her mother, Laurel Mack, finds her new love, Floyd, after divorcing her first husband.

Even now, after finishing, there are still some questions I have floating around in my head about the events of the novel and the outcome. She wore gym gear and had her hair in a ponytail and usually had a small white dog with her that Theo would pick up and kiss on the cheek before placing it gently back down on the pavement; then he would kiss his mum and saunter through the gates. 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. If she could rewind the timeline, untwist it and roll it back the other way like a ball of wool, she’d see the knots in the yarn, the warning signs. Thank you to NetGalley, Atria Books and Lisa Jewell for an ARC to read in exchange for an honest review.