Gone by Lisa McMann

Published by Simon Pulse

Ages: Young Adult

Pages: 224

Summary from Goodreads: Janie thought she knew what her future held. And she thought she’d made her peace with it. But she can’t handle dragging Cabel down with her.

She knows he will stay with her, despite what she sees in his dreams. He’s amazing. And she’s a train wreck. Janie sees only one way to give him the life he deserves: She has to disappear. And it’s going to kill them both.

Then a stranger enters her life — and everything unravels. The future Janie once faced now has an ominous twist, and her choices are more dire than she’d ever thought possible. She alone must decide between the lesser of two evils. And time is running out….

“For readers of Lisa McMann’s Wake Triology, Gone was a book we were all anxiously waiting for.  The story of a girl who has an incredible ability to help others in a most unusual way and unfortunately for her, a detrimental side effect. A heart wrenching love story with a devastating choice. And of course, McMann’s writing is another of the many reasons readers fell in love with Janie & Cabel‘s story. For those reasons I actually had my book on pre-order for some time and have been waiting until I could find a solid block of time to read it straight through. Well, I completed it today…

“Where to start? The good…Everything seems to be wrapped up tightly in a nice little package. It’s nice to get to the end of a series and feel some closure and to a certain extent I do. There were also some wonderful additions to this book that you didn’t get in the others, like glimpses into some of the less prominent characters lives and some new to the series. But overall, it was her writing that I really loved again.

“And now, for the not so good…Am I the only person who really gets bugged when about a quarter to a third of a way through the book you already know what’s going to happen? I’d be really surprised if I was. In all honesty I felt like this was written to be written. I know that Lisa McMann has mentioned on her site and on Amazon that it was a grueling process to write this last book. I don’t want to diminish the time and work she put into this, but other than the writing style I was a little disappointed. Where was Cabel? And the plot seemed to just float along, never really peaking with the exception of one major event that had already been eluded to numerous times.

“All in all, it was a decent wrap up to a wonderful beginning. I’m not upset that I took the time to read it, on the contrary, it was nice to spend some time again with Janie’s character and get to know her mom just a bit better. But overall a disappointing end to what started off so well, in my humble opinion.”

The1stdaughter Recommends: Ages 16/17. There’s at least one scene that’s a bit mature for younger audiences.

For the Comments: What do you think? Have you ever read a series where the end fell a little flat? How did you feel about it (torn/ok)? Did you read this one and feel I’m wrong? Let me know! I’d love to hear what you think about it!

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Recommend Me is a weekly event hosted by Kate at The Neverending Shelf. All you have to do to participate is share a book that you loved reading for whatever reason. It can be something you read yesterday or years ago.

My choice for this week:

Wake and Fade by Lisa McMann

Published by Simon Pulse

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Other books you may be interested in:

Gone by Lisa McMann (The 3rd and final book in the series.)

For the comments: If you could walk in and out of other people’s dreams would you and why?

These books were purchased for our home library.
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