And Then You Were Gone by R.J. Jacobs. I was given an advanced copy by Netgalley for an honest review, which I will now give. I was pleasantly surprised as I read this book to see how much I actually enjoyed it. I wasn't expecting much going in as I haven't read anything from this author before, but I am here to tell you this book grabbed me from the start and never let me go! The main character Emily is fighting her own battle with her own mental health issues at the same time trying to overcome obsticles that keep coming her way. (Sorry I can't tell you The obsticles...I don't want to ruin it for you. ) The writing is very tight and keeps the reader engaged as well as intrigued to what is happening next!!! I highly recommend this book! It's an excellent choice for a.thriller/action-packed read.
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I really enjoyed this book. A main character who isn’t perfect, with so many twists that I could hardly keep up and there was no chance I was going to guess the ending. Actual character development, with all the side characters fleshed out enough that you care about them as well. This is a thoroughly good book that I’ll be recommending to some of my regular customers.

Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review,

This book has a good story line and addresses some mental heath issues. It is a thriller and I don’t believe is supposed to do that but it does. You go through the ups and downs with Emily after they set sail and she finds Pablo murdered. I definitely recommend reading.

And Then You Were Gone kept me guessing until the end. While the beginning is a little slow hold on because the story picks up and is nonstop from there! R.J. Jacobs did an excellent job describing Emily's inner dialogue. As the story progressed I could feel her manic behavior while reading. It was like my own mind was racing along with her.

A couple of side notes: I loved the cover and the epilogue at the end!

Rating-3/5 Stars
Emily has bipolar disorder, but she tends to manage it with medicine and lives a pretty normal life. She has a handsome boyfriend and works as a psychologist with children.
One day, her boyfriend convinces her to sleep on a sailboat with him. When she wakes up, he is gone and no where to be found. The police either think she killed him in a rage or he somehow drowned.
But, Emily does not think he is dead or drowned. What could have happened to him though?
I really love the concept of this book and I thought it had a good start of a foundation for an amazing book. I found this one to run flat though. There was really no anticipation or oh my gosh moments. It felt mundane. I enjoyed reading through Emily’s perspective and seeing her go from great to terrible, back to sane. But, the action and the pacing was just not doing it for me.

When Emily and her boyfriend Paolo decide to spend a night on the lake, things quickly take a turn for the worse when Emily wakes up to find Paolo is missing and she has zero memory of the night before. Even though the police have declared him dead, Emily cannot accept that this is what happened, and she decides to do a little investigating of her own. Due to lack of sleep and dealing with her bipolar, Emily becomes an unreliable narrator leaving the reader to question everything along the way.

This book was a decent read, but I never found myself reaching for it to find out what happens next. The author did a great job of depicting mental illness and it was a good psychological thriller, but I did find myself a little bored at times. It was a good debut from the author, and I will try more of his books in the future.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for providing me with an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

Although a bit slow in the beginning, this book quickly picked up steam into a fast-paced read. The protagonist’s bipolar disorder presented an interesting yet complicated perspective. If you like psychological thrillers, you’ll enjoy this book. Thank you to Net Galley and Crooked Lane Books for this eBook in exchange for my honest review!

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And Then You Were Gone was a great thriller if you are a fan of quick-paced novels with unreliable narrators. The book begins as Emily and her boyfriend, Paolo, go on a romantic overnight sailing trip to get away from the stress of their jobs. Emily is a child psychologist and Paolo is a scientist doing vaccine research. Waking up the next morning and ready to head back to shore, Emily can find Paolo nowhere on board the small boat. She steers the boat back to shore and immediately calls the police, who begin a search and then an investigation with Emily as the person of interest. The rest of the book is a whirlwind of Emily's struggle to cling to her sanity (literally, as she is bipolar) and to find out the truth. We hear Emily's inner dialogue, and it never seems that she wants to prove her innocence so much as she just wants to find out the truth behind Paolo's disappearance and her friend's death.

The author of the book, R.J. Jacobs, is actually a psychologist and has done work with veterans (one of the supporting characters in the book is a vet). I really enjoy and appreciate when authors are actually in the niche of the characters and/or plots that they write about. I feel that it helps the books feel so much more authentic. I think it gave much more to Emily's condition and to Cal's character as well. Plus it fed into the thriller vibes as well. The build and the timing were awesome. Emily was a perfectly unreliable narrator! All of that being said though, there were a couple inconsistencies or repetitions of text throughout the book that are relatively easy fixes I think. Too much about the not taking meds and counting down...I felt like she should have snapped already or whatever ticking timebomb should have happened would have happened. I either needed that to be clarified again, or I needed it to happen. It was just repeated so many timed without anything actually <i>happening</i> that I just got confused. Then her cane being lost and resurfacing then being back at a crime scene? A little oopsie there. If she was on probation, Who's checking in on her? Where did Marty go?

So those are my feelings. I thought the writing was good, the book was exciting, the pacing was pretty quick. Emily wasn't my favorite character but her unreliability was spot-on and was perfect for this book. With just a little more editing, this book could be brilliant.

I don't believe all main characters have to be likable, but as a reader, it's better when I can find something I an also relate to in them. I had a hard time with this main character in doing that. That being said, I did enjoy the read and the MC's issues actually kept me unsteady throughout, which once I got used to, I enjoyed.

And Then You Were Gone by RJ Jacobs was the perfect page turning thriller! I couldn't put this one down and never figured it out until it was revealed. Every twist had me surprised, and the climax was heart thumping and thrilling. I was enlightened by the author's detailed and seemingly educated (see RJ Jacobs' bio/career field) description of a person struggling with and working through her life with bipolar disorder. The little hint of a romantic storyline in this one didn't hurt either.

This book took a little while to warm up, but was most intriguing once it did. I think the most gripping thing was the fact the main character and narrator of the story is bipolar and doubts her own take on reality and the way her mind is processing information.
Emily is a psychologist battling her own demons who is asked on a boating holiday by her boyfriend Paolo, she reluctantly agrees even though unable to swim and being petrified of water. A sequence of events then takes place that has everyone including Emily doubting her sanity. As her fear grows so does her mania as she forgets her medication and sets about trying to find out what happened on the boat.
Who can she trust if she can't even trust herself?
A great read, thank you Crooked Lane Books and Netgalley for the opportunity to read and review this book.

And Then You Were Gone is a gripping psychological thriller filled with suspenseful twists and turns. Worth the read!

Thank you to Crooked Lane Books and Netgalley for a free copy of this upcoming book!
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When Emily wakes up on a boat alone, she knows something is wrong. Her boyfriend Paolo is missing. Being bipolar and the lack of evidence aboard, Emily is an automatic suspect. Not believing this is happening, Emily goes on her own private investigation of what happened to Paolo. But when other murders start happening, Emily knows she cannot stop until she knows the truth.
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What I loved: The plot line in general was well done. Not that the premise was new, but it was well written. Bipolar is not a mental disease usually done well in books. But not here. I felt that Jacobs wrote about a stereotyped disease well and though you may not like Emily, you could understand her angst. Because everything was an absolute battle for her.
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What I didn't: There is about 10% of the book that drags a bit. Keep it moving. Also, the twist wasn't a twist. It was totally guessable and that's coming a lot from me because I don't figure out many.
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Overall, this was a well written debut and I look forward to future books by R.A. Jacobs.

A bit disappointed with this title when I read what it’s about I was intrigued by it. It started off good but then went a bit boring talking about vaccines etc.. around the middle. But towards the end it picked back up, I was rather surprised with all the twists and turns that happened, I could never guess correctly.. The main character Emily was a bit annoying with the way she acted throughout. But If you don’t mind reading thrillers about bio terroism then give this book a try, but it wasn’t for me

A good book which I read in a almost a day and a half. To be honest I didn't like the lead character, Emily, but I liked the story. I would definitely classify this as a page-turner and it honestly had me hooked. I did not see the ending coming and even though I like to guess the ending as I'm reading the book, I struggled to make the correct guess this time around. I enjoyed this book and wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to anyone. And a big thank you to NetGalley and Crooked Lane Books for giving me the opportunity to read this ARC in exchange of my honest review.

When I saw that And Then You Were Gone was described as for fans of B. A. Paris and Mary Kubica, I knew I had to read it and it did not disappoint! This novel is intense and compelling and a well-written blend of fascinating characters with a deeply layered story, which unwinds with intensity. It will grip your imagination and have you guessing until the very last astonishing twist.

This book was hard to put down! I wanted to keep reading to find out what would happen next and I was constantly changing my mind about who I thought was behind everything. I think I suspected every character at some point in the story, and to me, that's what makes an amazing thriller.

The characters were believable and the setting was well described so the reader could easily follow what was happening. With a Bachelor in Psychology, I absolutely loved the incorporation of bipolar disorder and the fact that the main character is a therapist and her ability to recognize when her thoughts were misleading her as well as turning her symptoms as strength.

Buckle up because you won't be able to put this one down! I look forward to reading future work from the author

First, thanks to #NetGalley for the opportunity to read an e-galley of this book. I love a good suspense story. This is it! I couldn't put this book down!

Emily and Paolo are in love. They go to the lake, just for a quick, overnight trip on a boat, even though Emily is afraid of the water and can't swim. Time together, some wine, spend the night, no problem. Except, when Emily wakes in the morning, the boat is adrift and Paolo is nowhere to be found!

After getting the boat back to the marina, Emily's world spins out of control. Trying to keep her bipolar disorder in check, her world seems to be spinning out of control as Emily tries to figure out what happened to Paolo.

I couldn't read fast enough, and loved every minute of it!

This psychological thriller started out as a slow burner and I didn't really know what to think of it.

But then the pace picks up and had me gripped with all the twists and secrets being revealed. Lots of the twists were really unpredictable and what an ending that was. I would recommend this novel to anyone who enjoys a good suspenseful thriller, and would definetly read more more this author.

I voluntarily reviewed this book via #Netgalley, and thanks to the author and the publisher for this chance.

Nope, this book is definitely not for me.

A few things that have already irritated me within the first 20 pages:

One moment she can't see his eyes behind his tinted sunglasses and the next moment he's winking at her - I thought she couldn't see his eyes behind the lenses?

She is car sick when they arrive and vomiting. When she appears reluctant to get on the boat Paolo insists everything will be better because she's on a boat now and not in a car? I don't think that's how motion sickness operates.

He's shocked that she can't swim at all even though she has expressed her fear of water. Is it really all that surprising that she can't swim? I would guess that any one with a fear of water likely doesn't enjoy swimming for fun.

A friends review mentions that this story ultimately becomes about bio-terrorism which I know, for a fact, isn't going to be for me but maybe it will be for you!

DNF!

Thank you Netgalley and crooked lane for an early copy for an honest review .
AND THEN YOU WERE GONE was a gripping thriller, it's main character Emily has bipolar so not always reliable, you keep reading to find out just want happened to her boyfriend on that boat, pretty good read