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Unfortunately, I didn't really enjoy this book at all, littered with errors, typos, and missing words also had the words HarperCollins, Copyrighted and Publisher throughout the book in very random places which totally ruined the flow of the book. Kate's husband changed his name a few times from Mark to Matt, none of this helped the flow

Twin sisters have a 40th birthday party, they each have a teenage daughter the same age, one is married, one is a single mum. Kate lives on the family farm with her husband Matt/Mark and Beth lives in a rented property nearby.

The next day, Caily, Kate's daughter is found on the river bank after suffering a terrible fall, was it an accident or was she helped......

Found the writing too descriptive and repetitive, not for me.

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Enjoyed this book which was littered with red herrings. Just who pushed Cailly off the bridge and why. I could not guess until nearly the end who the perpetrator was. Good mystery story full of family secrets and misunderstandings.

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The twins celebrate their 40th birthday, seemingly no worries well Kates performance didn't suggest as the karaoke seems to suggest.

The next day so much changes the twins have a daughter each born close to each other both great dancers Caily that bit better gets the plumb roles Tegan the runner up spot, this doesn't stop them being the closest friends as week as cousins. As stated above things change when Caily falls of a bridge only there is more to it and Owen the Cop who is Kates ex childhood sweetheart had to investigate. She is in a coma and the whole family is distort to state the obvious.

There are lots of twists and a very gripping story the characters are fascinating proving some excellent twists so you can never guess the storyline before it turns again.

I loved it and hope you do as well, I highly recommend it to you and think you'd not go wrong getting it.

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I really enjoyed this book ,a brilliant,clever psycholgical thriller but also a Family saga.A story full of Family secrets which have escalated over the years until they are a frightening nightmare .It seems nearly everyone in the Family has a secret they are hiding from the others .I loved the fact there were several different stories happening but which all tied up nicely in the end.A compelling clever book .Mant thanks to NetGalley for my ARC.

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Kate and Beth are identical twins and both have 15 year old daughters who are very close. The family throw a surprise 40th birthday party for the twins but a happy evening is followed by a tragedy when Caily, Kate's daughter, is found seriously injured after falling from a bridge. As Caily remains in a coma in hospital the family try to piece together what happened to cause her to fall or was she pushed?

This is a twisty tale with many of the characters keeping secrets which are eventually revealed.

I enjoyed this book though the reading experience was somewhat spoiled by the publishers logo being printed several times on each page.

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Twins Kate and Beth both have fifteen year old daughters, Caily and Teagan. The day after Kate and Beth’s joint 40th birthday party, Caily is found seriously injured under a bridge having landed on her back on rocks. While lying in a coma in hospital, questions are being asked as to whether she fell or was pushed. Also, why her and Teagan were not at the dress rehearsal of the school play as they should have been, especially as this is of huge importance to Kate who is playing the leading role and hoping to get a prestigious acting scholarship because of her performance.

We soon find that everyone in the family seems to have money issues and the family farm is in dire financial trouble. More and more family secrets emerge as the plot twists and turns.

It would have been a real page turner but the advanced copy I received was quite hard to read on my Kindle as the four words ‘material, Publishers, Copyrighted and HarperCollins’ appear on around half the pages in random places in a large font. Also, at the end of each chapter a half line that should be at the end of a sentence appears several lines before, often in the middle of a sentence. I found my reading flow constantly interrupted to try and piece together what it should say in case I missed some vital plot detail. There is also a rather gimmicky flow between chapters in that the first line of a chapter reflects the last line of the previous chapter. It made for stilted wording at times and I didn’t like it.

So not my favourite book but mainly due to the formatting issues..

With thanks to NetGalley and HQ for a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

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Just WOW! This one blew me away! Rich and complex plot lines woven seamlessly together. I felt so sure I had even a little part figured out but oh heck no! Some of the best characters I’ve ever read. Fasten your seatbelts for this one. Prepare for hairpin turns, whiplash and lots of jaw drops!
Highly recommend
Thank you NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this book

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I am a fan of Louise Jensen's psychological dramas and was pleased to be able to read and review Gone. But HQ has let her down in both the editing and format of the book, making it a difficult read. Of particular nuisance was the publisher's name on many pages disrupting the flow of the narrative.

Gone is the story of a close family: twins Kate and Beth, Kate's husband Matt, their farmer parents and daughters, 15-year-old cousins Cailey and Tegan. The drama centres around Cailey being pushed from a bridge and left in a coma, but who pushed her and why? There are many twists and turns that unfold throughout this story with an ending I did not foresee. Louise's fans will enjoy Gone. Thanks to NetGalley and HQ for the opportunity to read and review this book.

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Sadly this book was so poorly edited and formatted it was almost impossible to read. I did struggle through to the end. It didn't seem like a bad plot and would have been much more enjoyable had not the publisher's name been written large throughout the pages and various other problems like broken sentences, missed text and rogue words inserted
I have enjoyed this author in the past and this seems a real shame

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I found that this was a holiday read. It is a story about an accident, and a historical accident, both under investigation.
There is an unexpected twist at the end but I felt that the whole story lacked depth focussing on repetitive reflections by several characters.
Eventually the secrets are out and loose ends toiled up.

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What I managed to read was tense and gripping. However the editing was so annoying, with the Publisher's name on every page often in the middle of the page content. Scraps of sentences were disjointed and in the wrong place. I couldnt finish it though would have liked to. Thank you for giving me the chance to read and review whatI'm sure is a very interesting novel.

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I have read books by this author before and enjoyed them, this one did not disappoint.
The story centres around Kate, and her daughter Caily. Caily is fifteen, and Kate thought she was at school when she was found under a bridge with severe injuries, and is in hospital in a coma. The police don't think it was accidental, and are interviewing all family members who were in the vicinity when Caily fell, or was pushed off the bridge. Someone has a secret that they didn't want Caily to tell, but once the investigating starts, it turns out that every family member has a secret! But which of them would/could kill to protect it?
There are lots of twists and turns in the book, and it is easy to suspect first one family member, then another. The ending was one I didn't see coming at all.

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I never would have guessed who did it or how this book would end, though I did shed a couple of tears. The book was written so well I started to get invested in the lives of the family. It caught the cost of living crisis and the struggles people face affording everyday items. That part was so relatable and made the characters even more real to me. The plot itself had plenty of twists and introduced various suspects into the mix, but I'm not risking spoilers so I will recommend reading it instead!

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Absolutely brilliant.
An ordinary family living a very relatable life until everything goes wrong and wow, it certainly all spirals!
I couldn't put this down and even in the parts where I thought I had it all figured out, it quickly changed course and left me wanting more!
Brilliant! Definitely recommend

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This is really rewarding read. Beth and Kate are twins each with a daughter of similar age. Kate’s husband Matt has run the family farm since her father was disabled. Beth’s husband is in gaol for offences he may not have committed. The family is in financial difficulties. The girls, Tegan and Caily, are aspiring performers. All of this gives reasons for family problems but the obvious ones are not what causes Caily’s fall and near death. Who pushed her.? The obvious suspects are ruled out one by one. That is what makes a reader desperate to reach the unpredictable ending! This is a really gripping read. I recommend it.

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This book was SO twisted! There was a lot going on, so much so that at one point I felt overwhelmed. But in a good way. Because that’s what Louise Jensen is absolutely fantastic at doing. Building a thriller that gathers momentum and builds up and up until you almost believe that there’s no way to unravel everything. And then she does. Spectacularly, she does what she’s so good at, unwinding all of the secrets and the lies to bring a satisfying conclusion to a dark, fast-paced novel.

The only slightly off-putting bit was the chapter endings – each has a worded line that is then linked in at the start of the next one. But when a book is this good, those little bits very quickly become small and insignificant.

Full of drama, struggles, some relateable and topical issues and of course, those twists, Louise Jensen has done it again. Another fantastic book!

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What a busy, fast paced book this is!
I was slightly concerned when I first started this book as I thought the formatting of it would really distract as it was quite bad all the way through the book (It’s an ARC from Netgalley), but thankfully due to the pace, the content, and the characters within this story, it actually didn’t put me off too much.
I initially thought this would be a fairly easy book to read when I first picked it up, but due to so much going on in it, I soon realised there was much more to this story than it appears.
There’s quite a few surprises throughout this story which are fabulously written and really make you wonder how it will all end.
I did find that ending a chapter with almost the same sentence/wording for the beginning of the next one was too much for me and when it came to the shorter chapters, it did feel quite repetitive and was slightly off putting too.
Overall, I really enjoyed the story and how it all panned out so I give this book 4 stars.

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The family at the farm seem very close there are twins Kate and Beth who both have daughters of their own Cally and Teagan one of them has a fall and left in a coma but who was responsible there are so many secrets it definitely wasn’t an accident and everything is not how it seems I preferred the second half of the book and couldn’t turn the pages quick enough.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for an ARC

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Everyone knows how much I love Louise Jensen’s books and every new one gets me excited to read it.

The prologue starts out with plenty of intrigue which certainly had me hooked from the beginning. The characters are all interesting in their own right and this often throws plenty of suspicions and chaos into who the culprit is. There are so many veins of direction where storylines could lead that it really could have been any of them. This is what I love about a Jensen novel. The intrigue I had of where the book was leading, was certainly pulling me to think about it when I wasn’t reading and the various theories I had I kept swapping what I thought was right but still got it wrong which is unusual for me as it’s becoming rarer for me not to get the twist! Louise Jensen certainly got me this time multiple times!

The book in general was excellent, the storytelling was both gripping and beautifully written and was full of tension and pace throughout which gave it a crime thriller feel rather than the psychological thriller I’d expected.

Fabulous novel once again and can’t wait for the next!

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This book is packed with tension
Did not want to put it down
There are plenty of twists and turns which are just at the right pace
This is a must read

I did struggle with reading this copy due to having HARPER COLLINS and COPYRIGHTED PUBLISHER running through the sentences

Thank you netgalley, Louise Jenson and HQ

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