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Whatchareadin (174 KP) rated Then She Was Gone in Books

May 23, 2018  
Then She Was Gone
Then She Was Gone
Lisa Jewell | 2017 | Thriller
10
8.1 (21 Ratings)
Book Rating
I Loved This Book
Ten years ago, Ellie Mack went missing. The police think she is just another teenage runaway, but her mother, Laurel, doesn't believe that for a second. Ellie's disappearance destroyed the family and now that her remains have been found, Laurel will finally have some closure. When she meets Floyd, it's like she's getting a second chance at life. But when she meets his daughter, Poppy, life comes to an alarming halt. Poppy looks so much like Ellie, but why? Of course people look like other people all the time, but there is just something about this child that keeps Ellie at the forefront. When Laurel discovers a connection between Floyd and her family, she embarks on a journey to find out exactly what happened to her daughter and who did it.



Thank you to NetGalley and Atria Books for the opportunity to read and review this book.



After the first few chapters of this book, I figured out a few things about this story that I think most readers will discover as well. But the thing that made this book so hard to put down was how it was all going to come together, it's an incredible journey.



Losing a child is the most painful experience. When Laurel loses Ellis, her whole world is turned upside down and she can no longer function as she once did. She stops cooking for her family, her relationships become strained and eventually she and her husband divorce. Once they find the body of her daughter, the pain becomes a little less since she now has some closure. But why does this young girl look so much like her dead daughter. Did Floyd have something to do with Ellie's disappearance and death? Her family doesn't get a good vibe from this man, but Laurel feels as if she needs to stay with him until the whole truth is revealed.
  
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Whatchareadin (174 KP) rated The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in Books

May 10, 2018  
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson, Martin Wenner | 2015 | Fiction & Poetry
4
8.1 (76 Ratings)
Book Rating
This book started off really slow for me. I felt as though this was going to be a page turner from what I had heard from other people but that was not the case for me. I'm the kind of girl who likes to dive right into a book and get to the juicy stuff. This book did not do that for me. I'm not sure if it was because I had to decipher most of the names in the book, or if it was just that slow. The two main characters of the book are Lisbeth Salander and Mikeal Blomkvist. They end up working together to solve the disappearance of a one Harriet Vanger. This quest sends them all over the country of Sweden and to lands beyond. What they discover on the way is incredible. I just wish that some of this had come up closer to the beginning of the book, instead of at the last few chapters.
  
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Bookapotamus (289 KP) rated The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in Books

May 25, 2018  
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson, Martin Wenner | 2015 | Fiction & Poetry
10
8.1 (76 Ratings)
Book Rating
I really enjoyed The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the story disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, hired to investigate a prominent Swedish family, the Vangers, and the mysterious disappearance/death of a little girl, Harriet Vanger, 40 years ago.

He ends up working with a young female hacker-extroardinaire who has SERIOUS emotional baggage, and together they uncover clues that the police missed all those years ago, and find out some pretty damning family secrets.

Lisbeth Salander is badass. I loved her in this - she is now a favorite female lead character of mine. Larsson developed her character so much that I'll be surely reading the other two books in this series to see how she progresses and comes out of her dark, exterior shell... but hopefully doesn't lose her edginess and fearlessness in the process.

Steig Larsson is pretty twisted and disturbed, and I'm pretty sure he was a misogynist. But, this book is genius and I think it deserves 5 Stars.