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A review by kitsuneheart
Gone by Lisa McMann
3.0
This book actually annoys me a bit. Why? Because the entire book is about the touch choice Janie must make, between using her powers to help others, though it causes her body to degrade in her twenties, or isolating herself from every human in the world, and living to a normal age. That's a good conflict. That I was up for and interested in.
And then the end of the book comes.
And the book goes "nope, that second one is false, it's actually this," at which point the decision is clear to ANYONE, no matter if they're in a relationship as close as Janie's or just living on their own. And it's still put forth as some kind of hard decision.
The book was saved somewhat by the resolution of Janie's past, and her own decision to focus on self-care. After an entire series of her helping her drunk mother, having an adult Janie who decides to be invested in her own survival over others is good.
But, in the end, this entire series is very meh, for me, and the final conflict is just an eye-roll. If McMann hadn't thrown in the final details about Janie's condition, I'd definitely have pushed this up a star.
And then the end of the book comes.
And the book goes "nope, that second one is false, it's actually this," at which point the decision is clear to ANYONE, no matter if they're in a relationship as close as Janie's or just living on their own. And it's still put forth as some kind of hard decision.
The book was saved somewhat by the resolution of Janie's past, and her own decision to focus on self-care. After an entire series of her helping her drunk mother, having an adult Janie who decides to be invested in her own survival over others is good.
But, in the end, this entire series is very meh, for me, and the final conflict is just an eye-roll. If McMann hadn't thrown in the final details about Janie's condition, I'd definitely have pushed this up a star.