A review by kori_krc
Gone by Lisa McMann

2.0

Unfortunately this book did a big backslide for me. As a whole, it felt like a pretty unnecessary addition to the set. At the end of the last book, we left Janie off with her newfound confidence and decision to use her power for good, go to school, and be on the force. Now, she's avoiding Cabel (the one person she trusts the most and loves), she's constantly bottling up her feelings, she refuses to talk to literally anyone about anything and ends up making her own assumptions and conclusions. I understand her mental turmoil between choosing a life of isolation vs. a future of blindness and becoming disabled in her hands. Where I'm finding the problem is, that it feels like all of the character development Janie made in the first two books seems to have vanished. She's bitchy and secretive, she doesn't want to actually work through her issues, and she just get's really whiney and annoying. She almost destroyed the best relationship she had had in her entire life because she came to a conclusion on her own without any regard for her partner's feelings. I just don't think this was necessary to the series.