Great read!
The story kept me engaged.
The characters are well developed.
There are always things that we do not know about our significant others.

Billie has an almost perfect life with her husband Jonathan and their daughter Olive. The problem is, Billie has always been a free-spirit and she is feeling trapped in her life. She goes hiking alone in Desolation Valley and never comes back down the mountain. The only thing searchers found was one of her hiking boots near the falls. Presumed dead, Jonathan is trying to carry the weight of being a single dad and sole provider for his teenage daughter. Then questions surface and doubts begin to creep in..... is Billie really dead or did she stage her disappearance to escape her confining life? This book will keep you guessing until the very end.

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I really enjoyed this. For once, the plot twists were decent.

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WATCH ME DISAPPEAR begins almost a year after the disappearance of Bille (Sibilla) Flannagan. Through the novel, the lives of her teenage daughter and husband weave the story of their current lives and life before Billie died. Her daughter, Olive, begins having visions of her mom. Her husband, Jonathan, struggles to write a memoir and keep the household together. He knew some details of his wife's past, but not quite enough. When Olive becomes confinces that her mother is still alive, the two, for varied reasons, together and separately, search for the what really happened after Billie hiked off alone for a weekend.

The story line twists and turns, threading into loose ends of their lives, of the present, and of the past. Are Olive's visions a psychic ability, or the result of a brain bruise? Did Jonathan really know his wife? by the end of the book, we know all this and more. Some of the twists were quite obvious, others not as much. All in all an entertaining read.

With thanks to the publisher, Spiegel & Grau, and the author, Janelle Brown, for the advanced Reader Copy.

Honestly, I wasn’t sure what to expect once I started reading. I felt it a little slow at the start and I had already read a book this year surrounding a widower dealing with his teenage daughter and what happened to wife & mom. However, this is one you don’t want to abandon. As I started reading more, Watch Me Disappear takes on a completely different tone than I was expecting. Did she? Didn’t she? Part Gone Girl, part I Liked My Life, Janelle Brown definitely keeps you guessing. And right when you think you know all the answers, she throws you a curveball. Once you get into the suspense of this book, you won’t be able to put it down. You will need to know what happened to Billie Flanagan.

This novel takes a little while to get going, but stick with it, it's worth it! Well defined characters, a strong plot with a few twists and turns and a mystery at its core made this a very good read.

Wonderful read that kept me guessing. I spent the weekend with this book and enjoyed every page!! Can't wait to read more from this author. Five stars!

I absolutely loved this book!! So many feelings come up while you are reading this book that it is scary! I loved it. I can't wait for more from Janelle

I tried and tried to get into this book but it just was not happening for me. The snail's pace made it utterly unenjoyable. Sorry but this was not a good pick for me. Did not finish.

Made it through 2 chapters and abandoned.
Boring story.

Thank you to Net Galley for an ARC of this book. This story asks the question: do we really know the people closest to us? Are there parts of ourselves that we keep hidden from those we love?

This author has a beautifully descriptive writing style. I found this book interesting and the characters deep and relatable. At times the plot seemed to drag for me, but in the end it was enjoyable and definitely worth the read!

A bit slow but full of twists and turns. Just when I thought I had it all figured out something would happen to prove me wrong. The ending was a complete surprise! Loved it!

Do we ever really know the people in our lives or do we see only what they want us to see? Jonathan and Olive are torn apart when Billie, wife and mother, respectively, disappears after she fails to come back from a weekend hike. Jonathan is writing a memoir about his loving marriage, but begins to see that Billie had some secrets that she kept from him. Meanwhile, Olive begins to see visions of Billie. Together, they find things about Billie that maybe would have been better undiscovered. Some of their queries are answered, but do they ever discover the whole truth? Or are they better off not knowing everything? Janelle Brown has told the story of one woman who is many different women, depending on the perceptions of the viewer.

The idea of this book is incredible, but it didn't pan out how it should have. I didn't enjoy the writing style at all.

I expected more from this book. Although the story took some twists and turns at the end, it seemed very slow in getting there. The characters were well rounded and I really liked Olive, a typical teen age girl. The present tense is used through out, whick is quite unusual. Not the kind of book that will keep you up all night.

Thank you to Net Galley and Random House for this ARC in exchange for my honest review. I liked this book. It moved at a bit of a slow pace for my taste, but the characters were well developed. We never really know others as well as we might believe. I'd recommend this one.

For fans of Gone girl and other books in that vein -- compelling and readable

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Great book! Loved the story! Looking forward to reading more by this author! Highly recommend!

This was exceptionally good, one that I easily completed in a weekend. Not a barn-burner book that makes you think about deep and meaningful aspects of life, but a well-written, semi-mystery story about a family with love and secrets and problems and everything in between. I really enjoyed Olive and Jonathan's characters. Billie not so much, but in the grand scheme of things she was more of a bit part, used to form a common thread for Olive and Jonathan to work from. It was a storyline that had me conflicted about what I wanted the ending to be, which is always refreshing- I enjoy not really knowing how I want a book to end until I actually get there and see how it ends. My biggest complaint was the plot line they threw in toward the end involving Olive - without giving anything away, I felt like it was simply a random after thought that didn't add any sort of meaningful detail to the overall story. Even so, I would recommend this one!