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A review by spow
Gone Tonight by Sarah Pekkanen
3.0
What happens when you learn the person you trust the most has been lying to you? What happens when you realize those lies go further than you could imagine?
“Gone Tonight” explores a close-knit mother/daughter relationship that starts to unravel because of a lie. The story starts off with promise, as Catherine and Ruth deal with horrible health diagnosis that will change both their lives. However slowly and because of this diagnosis, Catherine starts to uncover cracks in the stories Ruth has told her daughter her whole life. As more and more cracks surface, Catherine becomes determined to find out the truth while Ruth is determined to keep her past hidden.
A thriller in it’s purest form, this story provides the twists and turns that I expected, but I wish they weren’t as predictable as they were. I’m not usually the type of reader that guesses the twists in the story, so when the unusual happens, I can’t help but be disappointed a bit. The detail the author sprinkles through the story to make the ending conceivable is also what makes it foreseeable. By the time I got the end, it wasn’t a matter of what would happen, but when it would happen.
The start and buildup were well written and enjoyable, so I don’t think a thriller lover will be disappointed in giving this book a try, whether its an ok read or a great read will depend on how much they can guess as they read along.
**Thank you so much to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for the advanced copy of this book in exchange for this review. All thoughts expressed here are my own. I appreciate the opportunity**
“Gone Tonight” explores a close-knit mother/daughter relationship that starts to unravel because of a lie. The story starts off with promise, as Catherine and Ruth deal with horrible health diagnosis that will change both their lives. However slowly and because of this diagnosis, Catherine starts to uncover cracks in the stories Ruth has told her daughter her whole life. As more and more cracks surface, Catherine becomes determined to find out the truth while Ruth is determined to keep her past hidden.
A thriller in it’s purest form, this story provides the twists and turns that I expected, but I wish they weren’t as predictable as they were. I’m not usually the type of reader that guesses the twists in the story, so when the unusual happens, I can’t help but be disappointed a bit. The detail the author sprinkles through the story to make the ending conceivable is also what makes it foreseeable. By the time I got the end, it wasn’t a matter of what would happen, but when it would happen.
The start and buildup were well written and enjoyable, so I don’t think a thriller lover will be disappointed in giving this book a try, whether its an ok read or a great read will depend on how much they can guess as they read along.
**Thank you so much to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for the advanced copy of this book in exchange for this review. All thoughts expressed here are my own. I appreciate the opportunity**