ONE YEAR GONE

 

SYNOPSIS

“Sometimes teenagers run away…Give her a few days. She’ll be back.”

That’s what the police tell Jessica Moore when her seventeen-year-old daughter, Wyn, vanishes. All signs point to this being true. But days become weeks. Weeks become months. And Jessica begins to fear the terrible truth—that she may never see her daughter again.

Then, one year later, when all hope seems lost, Jessica gets a flurry of text messages from Wyn that freeze her blood: mom. please help. i think he’s going to kill me. But Wyn’s terrified plea comes with a warning not to call the police. Her kidnapper wears a badge.

As Jessica’s fears are raised again, so are the stakes. Delving into the months leading up to Wyn’s disappearance, Jessica stumbles upon information that could put her own life in danger. With each revelation, the nightmare deepens. Now she must decide just how far she’ll go to bring her daughter home.

Title: One Year Gone
Author: Avery Bishop

Publisher: Lake Union Publishing

Publication date: August 10, 2021

REVIEW

RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Last summer I loved Girl Gone Mad so the moment I saw announced One Year Gone it became one of my most anticipated reads of the year and I’m glad to say it delivered.

Wyn has been missing for a year. When she disappeared everything pointed out to her running away, but when she suddenly texts her mom Jessica in the middle of the night asking for help, she reveals she’s been abducted by a member of law enforcement, sending Jessica on a wild chase trying to find her daughter but…who can she trust?

The story is told from several POVs and timelines and, although at first it was a bit hard to keep them all straight, once I got hooked, I found myself really invested in both timelines.

I really felt for Wyn. Being a teenager isn’t easy, especially when you’re going through what we later found out she was going through, so it was really gut wrenching to read some of her chapters.

I liked Jessica’s determination in finding out what happened to her daughter even when she kept encountering roadblock after roadblock.

As the story progressed my anxiety kept building, cause I was praying for an ending that turned out more improbable as the pages went.

Although I read lots of thrillers/suspense stories, the ending of this one felt like I was punched in the stomach, so vile it was. Even when I thought I could not be more surprised a final twist came that knocked me again. I’ve read some reviews complaining about the ending being OTT and not believable, but you just gotta turn on the news to realize weirder things happen in real life, so I completely bought it.

The only reason this was not a 5 stars read for me was because the middle part dragged along a little bit, but once things started unraveling in the last third it was an absolute rollercoaster.

I will now go wait anxiously for Mr. Bishop’s next release.

Thanks to NetGalley, Lake Union Publishing and, most of all, Avery Bishop for my gifted copy in exchange for an honest review.