A review by smiley7245
Gone by Lisa McMann

3.0

Meh. This book is very angsty. We finally meet Janie's dad, Henry, who is dying. We struggle with Janie as she tries to decide to leave the police force and break up with Cabel all while dealing with her new found father and her still drunk mother. Janie realizes that this whole dream catcher thing is hereditary and decides that she wants to live an isolated life like her father so she doesn't have to go blind or lose the function of her hand. She finally talks to her father, while he's in a coma and then he visits her in a dream. Her mom is crazy at the funeral; the police force shows up and Cabel is amazing. Janie moves into the house her dad was living in and decides she's going to live like he did, and she dreams about him again. She realizes that what she originally thought was the decision she had to make: blind and crippled v. isolation is really blind and crippled v. isolation and eventual brain explosion. She decides to live her life as it is, taking things day by day with Cable. I get that she was struggling with what to do, but she was so angsty about it that I found myself being more frustrated with her than with her situation. However, the end was as good as could be expected. She finally talked to Captain about everything, and realized that she didn't have to carry the world on her shoulders. I liked that Captain gave her the flier for Al-Anon so she could go and get some more support because of her mother. I was not happy with how things ended with Cabel, but they ended the way they had to because they both had so many issues and things to deal with. I have decided that since it is so open ended that they live happily ever after. They are the only ones who really understand the horrors of the other and they support each other, so they live happily ever after, without any kids.