Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell

Publication: April 24, 2018

Publisher: Atria Books

Source: Purchased my own copy.

I feel like I have an ache in my heart after reading this book. Hours after I finished it, I keep thinking about that last page over and over again. I thought I knew what I was getting into when I began this story, but apparently I was mistaken. 

What started out as a simple girl gone missing story, turned into a more complex mystery than I had anticipated. Ellie Mack is your typical teenager in London. She is a bright, energetic, and smart girl. She has two loving parents and a brother and sister who adore her as well. At this stage in her life, all she wants is to spend time with her boyfriend Theo and pass her upcoming exams. Everything is going pretty much according to plan until that fateful day when she accepts an offer she shouldn't have and then she is never seen again. Fast forward 10 years later and most of Ellie Mack's family has moved on while her mom, Laurel is going through the motions, but is still dealing with her daughter's disappearance. Then she meets Floyd, a well dressed man who seems so sure of himself. It all seems too good to be true until Laurel meets Poppy, Floyd's daughter and she comes to a startling realization that Poppy looks remarkably like her missing daughter Ellie.  How is that possible??

Then She Was Gone was a very enjoyable read. like I said at the beginning of this review, I thought I knew where everything was going to go but I was wrong on some things. There are things I guessed but there were still some twists in the story that I hadn’t anticipated and I enjoyed that. I liked the different points of view in the story. It went from then to now and I got to see the thought process and actions of several of the main characters in the story. I loved that. I didn't really want to know exactly what happened to Ellie because I was afraid of the outcome, however I could not stop myself from reading page after page. The whole book had a sort of somber tone to it, but it was that last page...that last page that stayed with me. 

RATING: 4 out of 5

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