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What? Is this it? Are there any more pages that I forgot to read? Seriously ! How did book end like this? It is worse than last 15 minutes of Seven’s “What’s in the box”scene!
Sorry but I think the thrilling book I’ve been looking for cannot reach, read at this moment. Beep…. Yep it might have gotten lost at the tunnel.
The book made an intriguing, exciting start: Ally finds herself at her old work place she quit five years ago and she thinks that is her first work day after her short break. Then she bumps into her ex-lover and also her ex-boss. Yes, she just faints and finds herself in the ER with short term amnesia. She slowly starts to remember she is married, she is freelance finance journalist and she has a secret from her childhood which buggers her lately. She keeps some important information about the crime scene she witnessed when she was nine.
Well, at first half of the book bored me so much! I didn’t understand why Ally’s husband treated to her wife as if she is Airbnb renter. Their cold, meaningless, unfriendly, boring relationship made me yawned. I wished I could position toothpicks into my eyes to keep them open.
Roger, brother of Ally also acted so suspicious and his wife was annoyingly noisy and disturbing gossipy element!
I also didn’t understand the unfinished business between Ally and Damien which made me think, I’m reading an angsty romance between two lovers who recently broke up from so many misunderstanding and communication breakdown (in the meantime I’m listening Led Zeppelin to calm my nerves after the damage this book created on me)
So Ally hires a private detective to gather lost pieces of her last two days which connects with the murder she witnessed when she was a child but as soon as I read the conclusion of the story: I said WHAT WHAT WHAT!!!!!! The bad guy was a little bit obvious from the beginning, wearing a sign on his/her head but the revelation part was so tasteless, still boring, meaningless!
And of course there is tons of misleading and blanks at the story needed to be filled! The ending was aimless. I felt like the author has been kidnapped and somebody pulled a nasty prank by writing this ending to torture us!
And Ally seems like blind, deaf and one of the most lost and dumbfounded characters I’ve ever read for so long. If a person pokes her with a gun, she doesn’t find out he is bad guy till she’s bleeding to death! I want to scream at her to open her eyes and stop acting like Snow White who recently poisoned by a tasty apple and waiting for her prince’s awakening kiss.
I kept reading this one because there were too many five starred reviews so I got patient and I think the story would go to some different direction and guess what? It didn’t.
Overall: I’m giving two stars and declaring my shiny place in the minority. I did everything to enjoy this story and look from the brighter side but pacing, story development, characterization and ending with so many blank spots truly disappointed me.
Special thanks to NetGalley and Harper Paperbacks to share this ARC COPY in exchange my honest review. I wish I enjoyed this story but unfortunately it didn’t work for me!
I’ve never read Kate White before but I will certainly start following her now! What a great book! Totally kept me intrigued! Interesting characters, psychological unrest and mystery with a side of possible romance.... sign me up!
What is more enticing than a novel about a heroine chasing lost memories? Kate White delivers a whiplash-paced, harrowing and unpredictable thriller which raises questions about memory and culpability which will linger long after the final page.
Kate White's newest novel is exciting and draws the reader. Its relly anadventure s . try about one woman, Ally,whose lost her memory and has no idea who she is. The plot fowwls her as she learns more about what happened to her for several days when she was comletely lost. The book is well writtne and easy to read.
I loved this book so much. It was everything I hoped it would be and more.
The pacing is perfect, I never lost interest, even if I had to put the book down for a couple days. I constantly wanted to keep reading and find out what happened next and get to the bottom of the mystery. I had my suspicions of what happened and where the plot was going but I was never 100% sure and in the end, I was completely wrong and didn't see the plot twist coming at all.
The ending was a little bit rushed but it wasn't a big deal to me.
Overall, I have really nothing critical to say about Have You Seen Me. I haven't enjoyed a book this much in awhile and I'd definitely recommend it if you're looking for a good suspenseful mystery to pick up.
Ally shows up for work one morning, only to realize that she hasn't worked in that office for 5 years and has no memory of anything since. I really don't know how to rate this or how to feel about it because the majority of the book was really good but then the ending was kind of absurd. There was a lot I enjoyed about this, but there were some points I could have done without. I'd still give it 4 stars, but I am somewhat disappointed at the ending and how rushed it felt.
I really liked this book. It was a good suspense, thriller, mystery. Allie, the main character, has 2 days missing from her life, She has lost her purse, cell phone, and has a pocket full of bloody tissues. She goes into work, and finds out that she hasn’t worked there for several years and has gotten married and started a different career. Her life is upside down and no one has any clue to what caused the memory loss or what happened during those 48 hours. The author takes you through many twists and turns to discover where Allie has been and what has caused this memory loss. I really couldn’t put this book down once I started reading it. I highly recommend it to those that like a good mystery. Congratulations Kate White, you have a winner!
I really wanted to love this one. But I had to DNF it after the Asian stereotyping at the beginning. It’s 2020 and there is no place nor excuse for that.
This book grabbed me from the beginning and had me turning pages long after I should have been asleep. Ally finds herself unable to remember two full days of her life. No one seems to know where she was or what she was doing. And where did that blood come from? Soon, Ally is in fear for her life, and I was well and truly riveted.
I keep seeing this book cover circulating around so I requested it without reading the description. Unfortunately I feel like this a thriller I’ve already read a hundred times (and I’m not a big fan).
Have You Seen Me? is so good. I have loved Kate White's Bailey Wiggins series, but this is completely new and a stand alone novel. I loved having Ally's point of view throughout so we could see how she was deciphering all the missing events. It also helped to see all of her relationships through her eyes so there weren't a ton of assumptions to be made. I highly recommend Have You Seen Me? to anyone looking for a mystery that is a bit different than other books our there. 5 stars
Kate White....what an incredible author! Her books just grab you from the start and never let you go!
Have You Seen Me takes you on the most intriguing roller coaster ride of suspense and mystery! You are kept guessing right up the end. But, I do have to say, the ending did leave me just a bit perplexed.....
Many thanks to NetGalley, the publisher and author for the opportunity to read and review this book. This is my true and honest review.
Well, I do enjoy a good suspense novel, and this fit the bill. The narrator is inherently unreliable because she has a few days missing from her memory due to a dissociative state. Everyone in her life seems slightly suspicious as well, which adds to the suspense. A few twisty turns that I saw coming (because I suspect everyone) and a few that I didn't. I would read another book by this author. Recommended to fans of The Girl on the Train.
Another solid thriller by Kate White! I generally enjoy her characters and her writing style. A few slow spots in this particular novel (and the scenes with her brother and the earlier murder seemed to subtract instead of adding). But a good twist at the end.
Suspenseful, good character development. I have enjoyed some of Kate White's other books more. Not that this one was bad just maybe not for me.
So what do you get when you read a Kate White Novel?
I began reading Kate when she first began the “Bailey Weggins” series and my love for her writing style only continued. She makes you feel as though you’re right there with the character, living out what they’re doing. If they’re walking the streets of East Village, and you’ve never been there (me!) then you know exactly what you’re looking at and how it feels, how it smells, how it sounds.
This story was no different and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I looked at my kindle and saw I was at 80% and thought, oh I’ll just hold off until tomorrow…and that’s when she comes in and says nope you have to finish tonight! The way she puts in those high points, the climaxes age the right spots to keep you going. She’s truly a master storyteller and I’m so glad I had the chance to read this one early.
Thank you NetGalley and HarperCollins! This gem arrives April 28 and y’all better get it, you’ll be hard pressed to find another great story like it!
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I absolutely loved “Have You Seen Me”. This book was akin to an onion, each time I thought I had the plot figured out - Kate White threw me for a loop and made me keep asking, “so what actually happened?!” I adore a novel that keeps you guessing, and this book did just that. The attention to detail while weaving together a complicated story did not go unnoticed.
I love Kate White and this book did not disappoint! The novel follows the story of a woman who cannot remember three days of her life. We retrace her steps to put the pieces together while also weaving in a traumatic event from her childhood. This is a quick read that will keep you guessing all the way through. Great job, Ms. White, on another stellar project!
When Ally shows up at work one morning, she doesn’t notice anything amiss. Until, that is, she finds out she hasn’t worked there in a very long time. After passing out in shock, and then waking up in a psychiatric hold at the hospital, she discovers that she’s lost two full days. Two days of not knowing where she was, who she was with, what she did. Everyone tells her to let it go and to give her brain time to recover. Of course she can’t...could you? So she hires a private investigator to help her uncover those missing days. The more they dig, however, the more sinister things become.
This was a good mystery, starting out with Ally's discovery of her missing time and ending in a dramatic fashion. There were a couple of odds and ends that weren’t part of the main story, but they weren’t
I was given this book by NetGalley for an honest review -
Imagine arriving at the office you used to work at thinking you still worked there-
Imagine - you can't remember your last two days, where you were, what you were doing?
You hire a private detective to help you recover your memory of the last two days.
You had been seeing a therapist for a murder you witness as a child.
Are you ready to know about the last two days - what you find may shock you!!!