I was a little unsure if I would enjoy this novel as it seemed there might be a bit of a supernatural aspect to it however I thoroughly enjoyed it and it kept me reading well into the night

After I've Gone by Linda Green.
You have 18 months left to live . . . On a wet Monday in January, Jess Mount checks Facebook and discovers her timeline appears to have skipped forward 18 months, to a day when shocked family and friends are posting heartbreaking tributes to her following her death in an accident. Jess is left scared and confused: is she the target of a cruel online prank or is this a terrifying glimpse of her true fate?
Amongst the posts are photos of a gorgeous son she has not yet conceived. But when new posts suggest her death was deliberate, Jess realises that if she changes the future to save her own life, the baby boy she has fallen in love with may never exist.
I did enjoy this book. I did love Jess. Kept me guessing until the end. 4*.

Sad sad sad this book is a great reading but puts a lump in your throat when your reading it I really enjoyed this book what a great story line

What a strange premise for a book, but one that worked.
Jess meets a stranger on a train platform and this starts off a strange thing that happens on Facebook. She can see her future, and in that future she is dead.
Her best friend doesn't believe her, and she can believe that the man of her dreams could turn out to be someone else entirely 18months from now.

Great read, very different storyline and one that really was intriguing to read. Loved it and hope to see more of this type of storylines in the future. Thanks Linda Green for a great book.

Really enjoyed this book. Social media being a hot topic. Clever idea surrounding the book, well written and a real page turner. Highly recommended
Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC in return for an honest review.

I really enjoyed this book, I found it really hard to put down.
A tense and gripping read that subtly focuses on domestic violence of women and the clever way this can be hidden in relationships.
My first book by this author but not my last.

Thanks for the opportunity to have read quite an entertaining read. The book underlined the biggest problem of our times, we are all glued to social media, everything from Facebook to Instagram. If its not on Facebook, its not true. So what if you are dead on Facebook, it must be true, right? But what if you're not..... not yet anyways. Interesting read and worth your time and effort!

Was really looking forward to reading this but it was archived before I could download it....

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Thrilling read that kept me interested from beginning to end. Jess Mount wakes up to find that her Facebook list her as dead, but also those posts are from 18 months in the future. I loved that the story was told from the past, present and future because it gave a true picture of Jess’ life even though there were different narrators. Jess is left to figure out who killed her and takes the reader along for the ride.

Hooked from the first few lines, I realised this was going to be a fabulous book and I wasn't in the slightest bit disappointed.

In a rather strange turn of events, Jess discovers she can view facebook posts from the future, 18 months time to be precise, of friends and family mourning her death.

As time goes on we see what appears to be a dual time line story as Jess struggles to work out what do do about all the future information she is seeing about herself, while at the same time, setting in motion what appears to be the same chain of events that will lead to her downfall.

If that sounds confusing, then don't worry as it isn't and the author is far more eloquent than Iam and everything just works incredibly well.

This was compulsive unputdownable storytelling at its finest, and a bit different to other books I've read in the genre. It isn't the first book I've read by Linda Green, but it is the first I've read since she changed genres and thankfully she is just as good if not better with this sort of book.

I loved every second of this story and was open mouthed in shock at the end of it. Clearly well researched it deals with tricky topics in a sensitive manner, not overtyl shocking, but in ways that you feel a great deal of sympathy for Jess.

Fantastic book that i would happily recommend to anyone that is even slightly intrigued by the blurb.

Thank you to Quercus and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.

This is such a refreshing take on a thriller and I devoured it! Jess checks her Facebook on an ordinary January day and discovers that the updates are all from 18 months into the future and her friends and family are mourning her death. This grabbed me from the off as I can’t recall another novel told in this way. Jess initially thinks it’s a joke and then begins to question her own sanity. It leads her to make decisions in order to try and get some of the same outcomes she’s reading about but without it leading to her death. Things get really tough for Jess when she realises how she dies and it becomes apparent that she may not be able to get away. There are elements to this book that I wasn’t expecting and the controlling relationship was one of them. It is so well done though and really shows how easy it is for ordinary, intelligent people to become trapped in an awful situation. I was rooting for Jess all the way through this novel and hoping she could re-write her future just enough to get the good and then to escape. This is a really good thriller and one I recommend.

I've actually had an ARC of this for quite some time but wasn't sure if I'd like it so I kept passing it by in my endless TBR stack. I was afraid I wouldn't buy the whole receiving Facebook posts from the future only to find out that you, will not only be married with child, but also dead in 18 months time.

Our main character Jess lost her Mom when she was just 16 to cancer and she has a bit of a break down after that requires a brief hospitalization.

At 22 Jess is a bit snarky and not all that fancy. She prefers leggings and Doc Martins to silk and heels. Yet at a train station a very handsome man strikes up a conversation with her and from here a relationship instantly develops. After their first date Jess goes home and does what every 22 year old girl would do and logs into Facebook only to see, to her surprise, that she has gotten married to Lee and has had a child. But even more horrifying it appears that Jess has been killed in an accident. When checking the dates of the posts they are 18 months in the future. When she tries to show her best friend they magically disappear. Jess is beginning to wonder if she's having another breakdown.

Lee seems like a dream come true. Fancy dinners, fancy clothes, fancy vacations. What more could a girl ask for? Only Jess always feels like she doesn't quite measure up. Her low self-confidence has her constantly questioning what he see's in her.

She meets Lee's mother, Angela, and while she seems nice there is just something a bit off that Jess can't quite put her finger on. Meanwhile, the Facebook posts keep coming in and they seem to be warning her of her tragic future. Is Lee the knight in shining armor she thought him to be or does he have more sinister intentions?


I'll admit that I enjoyed this far more than I was expecting. I found this to be a very emotional read. I also lost my Mom to cancer and maybe that is why I would find myself weepy at times. Not to mention Jess, her Dad Joe, and her best friend Sadie are amazing characters. I felt an emotional connection to each of them and felt as if I could feel their individual pain.

Highly recommended!

I would like to than NetGalley for providing me with a digital ARC in exchange for my honest review.

I received an ARC from NetGalley to read and review. The below is my honest, unbiased opinion. Thank you, Linda Green, the publisher, and NetGalley, for allowing me to review.

YOU HAVE 18 MONTHS LEFT TO LIVE . . .

On a wet Monday in January, Jess Mount checks Facebook and discovers her timeline appears to have skipped forward 18 months, to a day when shocked family and friends are posting heartbreaking tributes to her following her death in an accident. Jess is left scared and confused: is she the target of a cruel online prank or is this a terrifying glimpse of her true fate?

Amongst the posts are photos of a gorgeous son she has not yet conceived. But when new posts suggest her death was deliberate, Jess realises that if she changes the future to save her own life, the baby boy she has fallen in love with may never exist.

After I've Gone is a truly unique story. It was fast-paced, eerie, thrilling, and I read it in one sitting. The character development was fantastic: I found myself clinging to my book as she investigates her future. I cried with her, laughed with her, and loved with her, as she falls for the baby she has yet to conceive. This is a must read!

In this book Facebook is used as a `media oracle`, which jumps 18 months into the future.
Jess is the only one who can see this in her account and it gets creepy when Jess reads the obituaries intended for her and finds out that she has died. The question is: Will she be able to prevent her death and save her son who isn`t born yet?

The story is interesting and reflects a very serious topic: the abuse of women.

I thoroughly enjoyed this. Well written, great characters, and I could not guess what was going to happen next.
But, there was one loose end that was not tied up (I cannot say what it is without giving a spoiler but it will become evident upon reading the book) and whilst this did not really ruin my experience of reading the book, it just left me frustrated as I wanted an answer! As you can see I still have given the book four stars and therefore it did not spoil my experience that much - I just like a nice tidy ending!

The first couple of chapters of "After I've Gone" present the reader with a nightmare of modern times. Imagine checking your Facebook page and finding posts to your timeline talking about your recent death, all dated 18 months in the future. Your friends and family are clearly devastated at your passing, but you're still here!

At first, Jess, a normal 20 something with a job she enjoys in a cinema along with her best friend Sadie, thinks it's just a bad joke, then perhaps, something a bit more sinister – a stalker perhaps or a disgruntled ex-friend having a mean spirited laugh at her expense. However it soon becomes apparent when she shows the messages to Sadie, that Jess is the only one that can see them. Sadie just sees the normal timeline and so starts to have worries about Jess's mental health – something that has suffered since the loss of her beloved Mum to cancer, several years ago.

Then Jess meets Lee. Handsome, well to do with a good job, Lee is the consummate gentleman who wants to spoil Jess rotten - and is so good that surely, he can't be true? Jess has her head turned almost immediately and begins to behave differently – missing out on special occasions with her oldest friends to accompany Lee to posh do's – for which he buys her suitable, expensive clothes as her Dr Martens just won't cut it. Sadie is worried for Jess, and all the while Jess is seeing more and more messages on Facebook pertaining to her upcoming death – is she going crazy? Is this a warning? Jess just doesn't know what's happening, but what she does know is that she needs to find out and figure out if it is possible to change the future that seems to be already mapped out for her.

I thought this book had an excellent premise, and started very strongly, however I felt a little like there were some things that you just wouldn't do with the evidence that Jess had in front of her. Ignoring something being pointed out to you with a big neon arrow is, unfortunately, a very real human trait, nonetheless it frustrated me. I also felt it a little unlikely that you'd choose to allow your impending death to race towards you for the sake of a future family that may not even exist - but then I'm not the one seeing scary prophetic messages on Facebook, so who knows what you'd do?

All in all a good read, an excellent premise and a great holiday novel!

I loved Linda Green's previous novel, 'While My Eyes Were Closed,' and was eager to read her latest novel. 'After I've Gone,' is very different but is equally enthralling. When Jess sees Facebook posts from a future where she is dead, she is determined to follow a different path. But how can she change the outcome without sacrificing the life of her baby boy? Told mainly through the perspectives of Jess and her mother in law Angela, the narrative is interspersed with Facebook messages to Jess in the future. The writing is believable, emotional and it is a real page turner. I definitely recommend this book and will look out for more from this author in future.

After I've Gone

by Linda Green

Quercus Books
Mystery & Thrillers

Pub Date 27 Jul 2017

Jess mount checks her Facebook to find that it has skipped eighteen months ahead,and according to that, she will be dead in eighteen months.

She learns how Friends and loved ones will be affected by her death. She reads as her Father shares his grief.

What if while reading these future events, you learn from your best friend, what happened to you may not have been an accident, but something worse, much worse? What if the person she says killed you is the man you thought you had loved, a man who you discover whose child you were bare, being killed when he is only an infant?

If you knew that if you didn't get away your husband would kill you, and the day he killed you, would you be abLe to speak up, and get away from the danger? This is the dilemma Jess faces. Will she be able to make the choice that saves her life?

I give After I've Gone five out of five stars.

Happy Reading!

I loved While My Eyes Were Closed by Linda Green so when I saw she had a new book out I was eager to read it. Jess Mount is a spirited 22 year old, working in a dead end job in a cinema with her best friend, Sadie, when she meets Lee who absolutely sweeps her off her feet. But Jess starts to see updates on her Facebook timeline for 18 months in the future and she is scared by what they say as they indicate that she is going to be dead in 18 months time.

I love books set around social media. It's so current and I love social media myself so I think it makes for an interesting read. Linda Green's concept is clever and I did really enjoy After I've Gone. However, I have to say that I think this book didn't know what genre it wanted to be in. It's billed as a crime or psychological thriller story but I think it reads more like chick lit with an edge. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that, just it wasn't what I was expecting the tone of the story to be.

Another slight bugbear is the cover. I like it but it really doesn't fit with the story.

Despite those little criticisms I found this book to be quite the page turner. Imagine hurtling towards the date of your death and wondering if there's anything you can do to prevent it taking place. Jess is torn because the photos on Facebook show her something amazing that she knows she doesn't want to miss out on. What if changing her own fate means that she does miss out?

There were times I wanted to shake Jess and times I thought she was brilliantly feisty. Ultimately I was rooting for her all the way through and hoping she could do something to change what was about to happen.

I'd say this is a perfect holiday read. It's modern, witty and unique.  The ending left me with more questions than answers but I didn't really mind that.  It's a very easy book to read and despite it being over 400 pages I read it in two days. Overall I enjoyed it a lot.

Thoroughly enjoyed this, quite different to anything I have read before, but would recommend it. A new author for me, but off to find While my Eyes Were Closed, as this was so good.

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