That all said, Lisa Jewell’s writing is on par or better than your average mystery-thriller writer, I think. It’s not a knock on the book, really, but I’m glad she skipped over the details on that part. I won’t ruin it for anyone who hasn’t read it yet, but, ummm, yuck.

There’s also the “ick” factor in a major component of the plot, which if you’ve read it I’m guessing you know what I’m talking about. When it turns out it’s exactly what you think it sounds like, that’s a little disappointing. There’s a few instances of plot points where seems like the book is pointing in a specific direction, but since it’s a mystery, I kept expecting to be wrong about it. While there are a few key plot twists, there weren’t any that really caught me off guard. While the mystery and suspense of what happened to Ellie is absolutely at the forefront of the book throughout the entire novel, the resolution of Ellie’s disappearance is more straightforward than I had been hoping for. I don’t know that it says anything really groundbreaking, but it gave the characters more dimension.Īt the same time the actual mystery component to it was less satisfying than I was expecting as well. Jewell sincerely tries to tackle the subject of the family struggling from the weight of their loss, and it gives the book a little more heft. Then She Was Gone has a clear family drama element to it, which I wasn’t expecting, but was pleasantly surprised by.

I think I was expecting something similar to the other recent mystery bestsellers like The Wife Between Us or something like that. I didn’t have a ton of expectations going into Then She Was Gone.

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