Then She Was Gone

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This compulsive psychological read from one of our favourite authors will leave you breathless Fabulous Magazine wow. okay. maybe i wont be playing the whole ‘predict what happens based on the synopsis only’ game because it turns out i only got 1 out of 4 guesses right and its not a good look for my ego. lol. You know, how you get to forty and you suddenly stop giving a sh** about all the stupid things you worried about your whole life. Well, nine year old Poppy is already there." Then She Was Gone is, first and foremost, a mystery. Yet many questions are answered quite early on in the book. How soon did you guess what really happened to Ellie, and if you did, did it affect your enjoyment of the book? Did you think Lisa Jewell’s portrayal of Laurel and her journey was realistic? Could you relate to the way she dealt with her grief, or did you find it alienating?

The absence of twists might irritate some of the readers. But the author's writing skills, narrative style, and the way Ellie was crafted will compensate for it easily.Heathcote, Charlotte. “‘Then She Was Gone’ Review: Jewell Writes Lively and Fluid Prose.” Review of Then She Was Gone, by Lisa Jewell. Express, 28 July 2017, www.express.co.uk/entertainment/books/833831/Then-She-Was-Gone-book-review-Lisa-Jewell. Accessed 2 Nov. 2018.

Thank you to Atria Books and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. The reasons behind Ellie’s disappearance come to light through Ellie’s POV. Her mother, Laurel, also has a main voice in the story. I am begrudgingly giving this book 3 stars just because I spent most of the day reading it. 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.Thank you so much to NetGalley, Atria Books, and Lisa Jewell for the opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book.