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I have to admit that in the beginning, I was not that interested in this book. In fact, I put it down after getting about a third of the way in and not recalling much. I came back to this book and started again. It was like a different side of this book. This time I was invested in the story; especially Maureen's disappearance.

The past kept my interest far greater than the present. It was kind of easy to see where this story was going. I was not wrong to a point. There was this twist that I did not even see coming. The latter half of this book is where it really got intense. Everyone from Allison to Maureen to Tammy; Maureen's best friend were engaging.

If you are looking for a good mystery book to read with good characters and a few twists to a high note ending, you need to ick up a copy of this book today. One Night Gone will have you loosing your night away reading this book.

sleepysamreads's review against another edition

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3.0

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Special thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for providing a free copy in exchange for an honest review.

I picked this up because the cover made me think it would be spooky. It had somewhat spooky elements, but it mostly wasn’t scary at all.

The writing reminded me a lot of a Diane Chamberlain book. It took place in two different times and switched back and forth between the two.

I did love that the main character, Allison, was older. She wasn’t 25, which is unusual in this genre. Allison is still reeling after a bad divorce and she goes to Opal Beach for a quiet winter, not expecting to start a murder investigation.

I liked Maureen, though I wish we had gotten to know a little bit more about her childhood. We know her mom was a drug addict, but that’s pretty much it.

The supernatural aspect felt slightly misplaced in a book like this.

I don’t have a ton to say about this book, it was okay. Not great, not horrible. I don’t think it’s very memorable, but I didn’t hate it.

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4.0

This book is told through two timelines, one in the past and one in the present, which are tied together through Tammy, who appears in both timelines. Tammy desperately wants help finding out what happened to her missing friend, Maureen. There were a few twists in this story, but I found that I was able to predict them ahead of time. Still, I enjoyed reading this and loved the Opal Beach setting, as well as seeing the characters overlapping in both timelines.

blogginboutbooks's review against another edition

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3.0

I had high hopes for this psychological thriller, but it ended up falling really flat for me. I liked the moody, broody beach setting as well as the traveling carnival angle, but the characters in this book almost all came off as cliché and unlikable. This made it difficult to empathize with any of them, even the main characters. The mystery is likewise cliché and predictable. In the end, the whole novel just felt kind of pointless. I did want to know what was going to happen, but the melodramatic finale left me rolling my eyes. All in all, I found this one average at best, disappointing at worst.

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4.0

This book did not disappoint. I loved the two storylines from two different time periods. It kept the list of suspects changing throughout the book. By the end the suspect wasn’t a big surprise but the twists that were taken to get there were fun for reading.

I received an electronic copy of this book from Netgalley and Harlequin - Graydon House Books in exchange for an honest review.

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3.0

I started this one on audio and then finished the book, and I'm still not sure if that helped or not. I felt that there were too many characters, and on audio, I had a hard time keeping track of them all. Overall, I liked the story, told in dual timelines, of Maureen, in 1985, who worked at a traveling carnival and got in over her head... and then disappeared, and Allison, 30 years later, who comes and start investigating the unsolved mystery.

While I did like the storyline, there were so many loose ends that weren't tied up... there was a prologue in the beginning that doesn't really connect to anything (it's a loose connection, at best), there were people that were mentioned or little "hints" that were never really resolved, which bothered me.

Overall, it was interesting enough to keep reading, but too many flaws for a whole-hearted recommendation.

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