Reviews

The Leaving by Tara Altebrando

viviandss's review against another edition

5.0

I read this book months ago and it’s stuck with me, the reveal at least, that’s why I gave it a five star review. In the ending it mentions how basically life needs tragedies, there’s no way to protect oneself from the bad completely, it’s a part of life and that’s what I go back and think about often.

jazmyny_miny_moe's review against another edition

3.0

Pretty solid premise of crime, poor character development

steiann48's review against another edition

3.0

Honestly maybe a 3.25 stars. I think the whole concept was interesting but the figuring out what happened and all was kinda anticlimactic

ckeith's review against another edition

5.0

The concept of this book was so original and thought provoking. It was a great book and kept me guessing. if you get a chance you should read this!

aljakatuin's review against another edition

2.0

Reminded me of the 4400 (show)
Felt really cheesy and cliché

wattsyareading's review against another edition

4.0

Love the concept.. and the POV story telling was very well done.

bophelia29's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

The ending was a let down. There was a lot of build up and not a epic end like i expected.

mkb1227's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

gillygild2342's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

This wasn’t good. It wasn’t bad. It was just very mid. I was expecting a lot more from the story because the premise was incredibly interesting and once they started to hint at the reason that the kids went missing, I was expecting a more twisty and diabolical or intricate reason . We ended up with just kind of a mealy-mouthed reason and a very unbelievable scenario of how the kids were able to grow up for 11 years and not be noticed. And it’s sort of imply that you were gonna get a lot of interaction between all five kids who came back but once they came back, they just separated, and there were some limited interactions, but it just didn’t satisfy the reader.

the impetus being the attempt to remove the memory of the school shooting that the children witnessed so that they wouldn’t be traumatized was interesting enough, but they didn’t really focus on it. And then Max not making it back with the rest of them was just a tragic twist of fate. It didn’t have a deeper darker meeting, which is what I was hoping for. The love triangle between Scarlet Lucas and Avery was weird because for the longest time I thought we were heading towards Avery just going crazy but then all of a sudden Lucas was into her too. I clocked Miranda as shady pretty early and I thought that Scarlett’s mom was also gonna be some type of plant because she was just 10 bags of crazy. The Principal twist wasn’t that interesting and I don’t really understand how they thought he had committed to suicide and who was buried in his backyard, was it Max?

overall interesting idea poorly executed

lpraus's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective fast-paced

3.5