Book Review: Gone
Katie 
Gone is the second book in a series. I had not read the first, but it didn’t seem to make a difference. From what I can tell, each book in the series seems to focus on a different set of characters that are all somewhat connected.
In this book, we meet Alec and Raegan at the hospital. A girl has just been found in a park and they think that it may be their daughter, Emma, who was abducted three years earlier. The couple split after the abduction but decide to work together to try and figure out who took Emma, if she is still alive and if other kids being abducted are related. They have found patterns between the other abductions, but Emma doesn’t fit it. Is her abduction related or is Alec right and his biological father is to blame?
There are a lot of twists and turns in this story and I couldn’t put it down once things really started taking off! Definitely a great read if you’re into mystery and thrill!
I received a free e-copy of this book from NetGalley in order to write this review, I was not otherwise compensated.
About the Book
Three years ago, Alec McClane and Raegan Devereaux lived every parent’s worst nightmare: their one-year-old daughter, Emma, was abducted from a park when Alec turned his back for just a moment. Emma was never found, and presumed dead. The crushing trauma, plus Alec’s unbearable guilt, ended the couple’s marriage.
Now a four-year-old girl matching Emma’s profile is found wandering a local park. Alec and Raegan are heartbroken to discover she’s not their daughter but are newly motivated to find closure…and each secretly feels desperate to be in the other’s presence again.
Alec suspects his vengeful biological father is behind Emma’s disappearance. But as Raegan investigates other abductions in the area, she sees a pattern—and begins to wonder if Emma’s kidnapping is actually linked to something more sinister.
As Alec and Raegan race to uncover the truth, a long-burning spark rekindles into smoldering passion, and they realize they need each other now more than ever.
Red-Blooded American Male is a book of photographs taken by Robert Trachtenberg. The opening of the book notes that “American” may be a bit misleading and that it actually means all of North America (since it includes some Canadians) but also some Brits are included as well. As the majority of this book are photos, I’m not sure really how to review it, but the beginning of the book has an interview with Robert and some of the photos have captions which explain how and why the photos and their poses came to be. A very large (and heavy!) coffee table book filled with great photos.
Dream Big is basically my motto in life. So of course I had to check out this children’s book of the same name. There are a lot of animals and they are all making wishes of their wildest dreams. The baboon thinks that these things can never come true, but one by one they start happening for the animals because they are wishing and believing that they can do anything. This is a great message and the animals in the book are really cute 🙂
I don’t think I have ever felt more OLD reading a book. Keke Palmer’s “I Don’t Belong To You” is an autobiography and also an inspirational and potentially “self help” book. However, I couldn’t get past all the use of “lol” and hashtags throughout the text. Maybe if I was about 10 years younger I would find it appropriate – but it was written more like she was writing you an email than an actual book – which maybe was the point, but again, I’m just realizing that at 32 I am old. Watch out, or I may bust out a “kids these days”.