Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell

204 reviews

sarahbryant717's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.25

Is there such a thing as a true coincidence or is life a series of carefully planned events? 

Ellie Mack seemed to have the perfect life. She was the apple of her mom Laurie’s eye. Smart and beautiful, Ellie had the entire world ahead of her. Then one day, shortly before her school exams, she disappeared. The police chalked Ellie’s disappearance up as a runaway teenager, but Laurie knew her daughter and she knew that Ellie wouldn’t have just ran away without a word to anyone. 

Years later, a chance encounter at a coffee shop causes Laurie to meet Floyd, a single father of two daughters. After years of heartache, Laurie is finally open to the idea of love and embraces the idea of being a mother figure to Floyd’s younger daughter, Poppy, a precocious preteen girl whose own mother abandoned her years before. Laurie’s vision of a perfect blended family is shattered when she meets Poppy, who looks just like Ellie. This meeting causes Laurie to wonder if meeting Floyd and Poppy was a coincidence or is there a sinister connection to Ellie’s disappearance 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Kidnapping, and Grief

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Minor: Miscarriage, Suicide, Murder, and Pregnancy

marinnelilly's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Suicide, Kidnapping, and Murder

monaroe899's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Self harm, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

mysterymom40's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Death, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Kidnapping

Minor: Suicide

someone is unwillingly impregnated; thoughts of a what could be seen as a psychopath; very disturbing thoughts and actions

riereeds's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

Wow. I feel like a lot of stories about “missing kids” can be very easy to predict. They tend to be written the same. I did not feel that way with this book. There are times you think you know. But you don’t. The ending was exactly what it needed to be. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Violence

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Kidnapping, and Murder

Minor: Suicide

baileyridgway's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Kidnapping

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Child death, Confinement, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, and Pregnancy

lez_whale's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

5.0

This book was incredible!!! Definitely broke me out of a reading rut. The end is somewhat controversial as to who likes it, but I loved it. From the beginning, it kept me engaged and interesting and I truly loved it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Torture, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Suicide

mcole18's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

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

4.0

At times I didn’t want to keep going, but felt I had to to figure out the tangles that created this mystery. Although you can kind of see where things are headed, how Jewell tells the story is interesting and pulls you in. I enjoyed how the book did not just center on the missing girl and her mom, but expanded to show the complexities of the entire family & extended family. The ending is bittersweet but I’m glad I finished this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, and Suicide

xbookishlibra's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

3.5

This book was an insane roller coaster. Like… Wow. 

Honestly though? I was right about a lot of it which is something I both love and hate. Since I was right, there wasn’t a whole lot of plot twists for me? But it was a good book nonetheless and a very good thriller. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Suicide, Kidnapping, and Pregnancy

Minor: Medical trauma

cosxshea's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

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

1.0

The premise of this book was good enough for me to pick it up, but it was so predictable that I had to force myself to read it. 

Most of the "twists" are revealed in the first half of the book and the second half is just an in depth look into what happened. I read and read hoping something more would happen, but was sadly disappointed.

Jewell, in her acknowledgements says that this is either "brilliantly bizarre, or just bizarre." And I have to agree. I love thrillers, but this was just an awfully sad story about a girl who is kidnapped.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Stalking, and Murder