Gone [Mass Market Paperback]

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Gone [Mass Market Paperback]

Product Details

Mass Market Paperback: 480 pages
Publisher: Bantam; First edition (December 26, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0553588079
ISBN-13: 978-0553588071
Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 1.1 x 6.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

By : Lisa Gardner
Price : $7.99

Customer Reviews

Gone is the newest thriller by Lisa Gardner and the first book I have read by this author. The book feels fresh and alive and there is no need to have read previous books to enjoy this book. Rainnie Connor has problems. She had an abusive childhood and currently is haunted by past cases and has a drinking problem.
She disappears while on a latenight drive, and team is formed to find her. Leading the team is Quincy, her estranged husband. The novel cuts back and forth between scenes of the police trying to find suspects, Quincy reaching out to his FBI agent daughter to help him find his wife, and of Rainnie in the hands of the kidnapper.
The are plenty of twists and turns in this fast paced novel. Rainnie is haunted by a past case of a murdered girl and her mother. I don't know if that was from a previous Gardner novel, but just the brief description it got in this book haunted me.
Gone is an exciting kidnapping mystery. The excitement comes from the characters and their situations, not the plot's ultimate outcome.

I, like a few others reviewing this book, was disappointed. I have read most of Ms. Gardner's books and have enjoyed every one of them--greatly. They were "all up all night and miss work the next day" reads. Unfortuately, I found "Gone" to be much less exciting then her previous works. I found myself turning page after page to get to the meat of the story; and even after finding that meat at the end, I still found myself lacking. I acted like Billy Crystal in "When Harry Met Sally" and turned to the end just to see how "Gone" ended. Maybe in her next book, Ms. Gardner will find the old spark. I certainly hope so, because I do plan on buying it.