Then She Was Gone

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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. When she meets his teenage daughter, she can’t shake the feeling of how much she reminds her of her beloved Ellie.

Brooks is a pro at building suspense even if it plays out in some rather spectacularly yucky episodes, one involving a short spear that takes its name from “the sucking sound of pulling it out of the dead man’s heart and lungs. And now, their two remaining children are leaving home at the first chance they get - anxious to live their own lives, away from the oppressive tension within their home. 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.If the author can find just the right combination of these things, then I will be right there ready to throw more stars their way. This is the second Lisa Jewell novel I’ve read (I Found You, being the first) and I can’t wait to read more of Ms. I usually really dislike predictable books and I usually figure out most mysteries which annoys me; not with this book though. 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! A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy.

I wished for another outcome for her because my heart broke for her truly (and the weird ending does not make up for that).Now ten years later, Laurel is willing to take a shot at having a life and love again a series of events will send her reeling. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Then Laurel is introduced to his little girl: Poppy, and she is dumbfounded to discover that Poppy bears a striking resemblance to Ellie, her Ellie. But, finally, after years of just going through the motions of life, Laurel meets Floyd, a single dad with a young daughter named Poppy.

While it was at times intriguing and I needed to know how things were gonna end, by the end of the book I just found myself annoyed, even now as I'm writing this review I am annoyed lol. If she could unwind 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.This was a quick read but unlikable and ridiculous, hard to believe characters made it difficult for me to believe a word. A very suspenseful story, with an underlying sense of creepiness, and a novel way of telling a story. I was so intrigued in finding out what happened to Ellie Mack that I was racing through those pages as fast as I could! The years went by and although Laurel kept pushing the police to do more…there was only so much they could or would do. latest thriller moves at a brisk pace even as she plays with narrative structure: The book is split into three sections, including a first one which alternates chapters between the time of Ellie’s disappearance and the present and a second section that begins as Laurel and Floyd meet.

If the author leans on hateable characters (like The Girl on the Train) or other thriller tropes (alcoholism, mental illness, etc.Lisa Jewell is a brilliant storyteller and I will be recommending this book for an emotional, suspenseful, and captivating read. Brooks places the epicenter of the Bigfoot war in a high-tech hideaway populated by the kind of people you might find in a Jurassic Park franchise: the schmo who doesn’t know how to do much of anything but tries anyway, the well-intentioned bleeding heart, the know-it-all intellectual who turns out to know the wrong things, the immigrant with a tough backstory and an instinct for survival. Then She Was Gone references in an excerpt from Ellie’s diary, Alice Sebold’s novel The Lovely Bones, another story about a young teenager who goes missing and the fallout of her unsolved disappearance on her family. The police’s investigation never turned up any clues to what happened to her, but believe she ran away.