Review: Gone Tonight

Book: Gone Tonight

Author: Sarah Pekkanenn

Thank you NetGalley and Macmillan for an advanced audio copy.

Gone Tonight started out slow but picked up a lot of speed and had my full attention going towards the conclusion.

Gone Tonight is told from two perspectives, Ruth and her Daughter Catherine. This is where some of my problems started with the audiobook. Narrator Kate Mara does a great job but she narrates both perspectives and does them exactly the same. I often forgot who was who before the book fully sucked me in. After around the 25% mark enough happened that I was fully invested and this stopped being a problem for me.

This was a suspenseful thriller and was excellently crafted. Both Ruth and Catherine have secrets, they share some of these secrets with the reader but not with each other. Catherine is supposed to be moving to start a new job but her mom is suffering from early stages of Alzheimer’s which makes Catherine question her decision to move.n

To figure out what is going on with Ruth in the present Catherine has to figure out her past. It's a wild ride across two timelines filled with suspense and thrills.n

My only complaint was how slow it started. There was a lot of information thrown at us in the beginning and it didn’t all seem relevant to the story. Once the story picked up, I never looked back. Check this one out. n

Final Score 4/5