Sunday, September 12, 2021

Lisa Jewell

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“NO ONE EVER JUST DISAPPEARS.

Ellie Mack was the perfect daughter. And then she was gone.

Ten years after Ellie’s disappearance, her mother, Laurel Mack, is trying to put her life back together when she meets an unexpectedly charming man in a cafe. Before she knows it, she’s meeting Floyd’s daughters – and his youngest, Poppy, takes Laurel’s breath away.

Because the eerily precocious Poppy is the spitting image of Ellie.

And now, the unanswered questions she’s tried so hard to put to rest begin haunting Laurel anew. Where did Ellie go? Did she run away from home, as the police have long suspected, or did something more sinister happen? A haunting page-turner of “sheer perfection" (Booklist, starred review), Then She Was Gone is a gripping and emotionally resonant tale of one mother’s quest to uncover the clues she failed to recognize and finally discover the truth of what happened to her daughter.

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I can’t say whether I like this book. So I gave it three stars.

I like this book. I quite enjoyed reading it.

And I don’t like this book. I don’t like to read the part about what happened to Ellie. I skipped most of it. It was horrible!!

Usually, I don’t like the kind of novel when the author tells the story in two parts, what happened in the past and what is happening at the present. For many times, I’ll just flip through the part about the past, because they are mostly very sad.