jenleah's review against another edition
3.0
This book is one giant trigger warning. Child endangerment (understatement of the year), rape, miscarriage, abortion...it's hard to say I enjoyed this book. I did find the story compelling enough to want to see it through to the end. I had figured out the gist of what was to come, but that didn't keep me from gasping out loud at one of the big reveals. Just beware with this one, it's tough material.
notesonbookmarks's review against another edition
3.0
this was a quick and interesting, if predictable, read. I enjoyed the way the author worked from front to back AND back to front simultaneously. Julie has been missing for 8 years, with her younger sister Jane as the only witness to her kidnapping. Jane comes home from her first year at college and Julie shows up at the door.
debi_g's review against another edition
4.0
How did Julie have Janie's number when no one knew Julie had a cell phone? Why didn't Anna give Julie her number?
Aside from those two holes, this book is plotted and written quite well. The chronology and character zigzags orchestrated by the author provide some great scenery on a road I expected to be familiar.
Aside from those two holes, this book is plotted and written quite well. The chronology and character zigzags orchestrated by the author provide some great scenery on a road I expected to be familiar.
julia3998's review against another edition
2.25
I really wanted to like this book and the overall plot was there but I was so confused so often I genuinely don’t think I would’ve been able to keep up without Kindle’s x-ray feature
jackierobinson's review against another edition
3.0
This book started off really well and had me gripped from page one.
As the story progressed, my attention waned and I got a little less interested with each page.
I think this story had a wonderfully intriguing concept - I did enjoy the multiple view points - but overall I think I ended up feeling a little underwhelmed.
This book was an easy read but I'm going to have to give it a 3 star rating.
As the story progressed, my attention waned and I got a little less interested with each page.
I think this story had a wonderfully intriguing concept - I did enjoy the multiple view points - but overall I think I ended up feeling a little underwhelmed.
This book was an easy read but I'm going to have to give it a 3 star rating.
cloudedsulphur's review against another edition
4.0
I enjoyed the twists and turns of the book. It was a little difficult to follow along with the name changes of the characters, but it was interesting to read.
tawnsolo's review against another edition
4.0
If you can get past the extreme overuse of similes, this was a really good book.
alliepeduto's review against another edition
3.0
Wow, that was totally unexpected. Loved the way the story was told, I'm not sure if I've ever read anything like that before. The story was good, but how it was told was better
novelesque_life's review against another edition
4.0
GOOD AS GONE
Written by Amy Gentry
JULY 26, 2016; 288 Pages
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Genre: suspense, mystery, missing person, fiction
(I received an ARC from the NETGALLEY in exchange for an honest review.)
★★★
When Jane was a young child she watched a man kidnap her thirteen year old sister, Julie at knife point. She had watched all this through the crack of the closet door to stun to move. It took her a few hours to raise the alarm to her parents. From that day on the Whitaker family changed both physically and emotionally. Then many years later a stranger appears at the door - it is Jane's older sister, Julie - alive.
Anna - their mother - feels like there is something not right about everything that is unfolding with Julie. As Jane and her father are over the moon about Julie's return, Anna cannot help but doubt her story. She tries to bury her uncertainty, but then a private investigator contacts her with his own suspicions, Anna knows she must find out the truth even if it breaks her family again.
This novel kept me interested enough to see how it unfolded. We see all this through Anna, Jane and Julie's point of view. I was not wowed by the twists and turns of this novel but I found all the characters (but Julie) very realistic. This novel has the tag of being like Gone Girl which was a suspense novel I did not care for...so maybe this kind of suspense is not my cup of tea.
k (My Novelesque Life)
http://mynovelesquelife.blogspot.ca/2016/07/mystery-monday-good-as-gone.html
Written by Amy Gentry
JULY 26, 2016; 288 Pages
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Genre: suspense, mystery, missing person, fiction
(I received an ARC from the NETGALLEY in exchange for an honest review.)
★★★
When Jane was a young child she watched a man kidnap her thirteen year old sister, Julie at knife point. She had watched all this through the crack of the closet door to stun to move. It took her a few hours to raise the alarm to her parents. From that day on the Whitaker family changed both physically and emotionally. Then many years later a stranger appears at the door - it is Jane's older sister, Julie - alive.
Anna - their mother - feels like there is something not right about everything that is unfolding with Julie. As Jane and her father are over the moon about Julie's return, Anna cannot help but doubt her story. She tries to bury her uncertainty, but then a private investigator contacts her with his own suspicions, Anna knows she must find out the truth even if it breaks her family again.
This novel kept me interested enough to see how it unfolded. We see all this through Anna, Jane and Julie's point of view. I was not wowed by the twists and turns of this novel but I found all the characters (but Julie) very realistic. This novel has the tag of being like Gone Girl which was a suspense novel I did not care for...so maybe this kind of suspense is not my cup of tea.
k (My Novelesque Life)
http://mynovelesquelife.blogspot.ca/2016/07/mystery-monday-good-as-gone.html