One Year Gone is narrated from the dual POV of Jessica and her daughter Wyn. There are multiple timelines which begin to weave together as the story progresses which ultimately reveals not only the events that led to Wyn’s disappearance but also the truth about where she is.

Like the majority of books that I read my favourite character turned out to be one that I shouldn’t have liked but he was intriguing so my bad. I was absolutely shocked by how everything turned out so kudos to the author for that one. I loved the ending because it wasn’t what I was expecting but I would have liked to know what more about what happened to those involved.

This is a really exciting thriller that will shake you to your core. Although you may have your suspicions about where the book is heading and you may even guess some of the aspects of what is going to happen, you will not be able to completely guess the ending until you have read it. It is a complete shocker. If you are looking for a little light ultimately uplifting book to read, you may want to skip this one. If you enjoy very unpredictable extremely dark books, you may enjoy it.

This is another one of my favorite reads this summer! Avery Bishop amped up the suspense factor in One Year Gone, and with each turn of the page I was biting my nails with anticipation.

Jessica Moore’s daughter, Wyn, vanished one night, and the police believed it was nothing more than a simple runaway case. But one year later, Jessica starts receiving texts from her daughter asking for help, and to make matters worse, Wyn says her captor wears a badge. Jessica is determined to find her daughter, but as new information is revealed, it becomes apparent that her life may be in danger as well.

This story brings to life every mother’s worst nightmare, and it broke my heart to see the agony Jessica went through. Every truth that came to light was more heart-wrenching than the last, and as the end neared, I wondered if Wyn would ever be found. Highly recommend this book!

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4145141422

Jessica lives a mothers nightmare. Her 17 year old daughter Wyn vanishes and all signs point to her being a runaway teenager. Jessica knows that her daughter wasn't happy and the police finds prove that Wyn wanted to leave home and start over in a new place. That means the police is not investigating in Wyn's disappearance. Then, one year after the disappearance, Jessica gets a message on her phone: It's from Wyn, begging her for help. With this message a cat 'n mouse play begins. Jessica races to her daughters help and when the last horrifying secret is revealed, nothing will ever be the same. Really liked the story and my heart broke several times throughout the book.

One Year Gone is a standalone suspense novel from the bestselling Avery Bishop. 17-year-old high school student Bronwyn "Wyn" Hayden has been missing for a year now from her small hometown of Bowden, Pennsylvania. Unfortunately, there were very few leads, so the police had little to go on and now, nearing the first anniversary, the case is almost stone cold with no one searching for the missing teen. The police refuse to believe any other story than she had merely run away meaning that their desire to search wasn't present from the very first day she disappeared; this mindset is fuelled by the fact that Wyn’s life has been far from a walk in the park in her formative years and that this was the precipitating factor to her "escape". She had dreams of becoming a prominent singer-songwriter and her mother, Jessica, the proprietor of a bar, is now struggling to get through each day and restrain herself from drinking profusely to blot out the fact that she has no idea what happened to her young daughter. The uncertainty of not knowing whether she is alive or dead eats away at her from the inside out and she often ponders whether she will ever see her again, dead or alive; it really is like a form of sadistic torture.

Then late one evening, Jessica receives a frantic-sounding text message claiming to be from Wyn begging for help; this, of course, both terrifies and overjoys Jessica just to hear that her long-lost daughter is still seemingly alive and kicking. But when she visits the police and informs her ex-husband about the recent contact neither of them believes it to be her. They think it is merely a sick joke perpetrated by trolls. The texts keep arriving intermittently stating that Wyn has been in captivity all this time, that she is in grave danger and that the person holding her is a cop. It doesn't take long before Jessica's sanity is called into question, but nothing and no one will stop her from finding out the truth; after all, her precious Wyn may still be reachable. This is a compulsive, enthralling and emotionally fraught thriller with all the elements necessary to make it a real page-turner. Told from the switching perspectives of Wyn on the days leading up to her disappearance and Jessica’s present-day search for answers, this affecting, rapid-fire novel features rocketing levels of suspense and a plethora of possible suspects and motives. There are clues interspersed throughout and an explosive and deviously twisty ending which thoroughly satisfies.

“One day, just months after she turns seventeen, your daughter disappears. You’re told by the police that sometimes this happens. Sometimes people just disappear. Especially teenage girls. Then, almost a year later, the first text comes in. Two text messages. The first text says, mom. The second text says, please help.”—from the prologue of One Year Gone

The plot synopsis of One Year Gone sounds so good that I just had to pick it up from Netgalley. Unfortunately, the book itself was a miss for me. Its problem? It was slow, agonizingly slow. Why use one adjective if you can use an entire paragraph (or several) seems to be the author’s mindset. I also didn’t like either of the main characters. 2 stars.

Thanks to Lake Union Publishing and NetGalley for a copy in exchange for my honest review.

One Year Gone is a perfectly paced thriller that gripped my attention from the very first page.

Jessica Moore is a single mother who finds herself consumed in trying to find her 17 year old daughter Wyn. The police label Wyn as a runaway, but one year after she went missing Jessica gets a frantic text from her daughter asking for help.

I enjoyed the style of writing by this author. We have a present day storyline with alternating flashbacks set from different POVs. The author introduces the reader to just enough characters that you start to suspect many different possible motives from each character. I didn’t see the final reveal coming, I was certainly surprised by the twist. I would definitely read more by this author.

Thank you to NetGalley and Lake Union Publishing for an advanced copy.

You all know by now that I struggle with thrillers and YA. While technically not classified as YA, this book definitely has a strong high school vibe. However, I liked this book. Told from dual perspectives and alternating between present day and one year ago, this is the story of a missing teen and her mother’s quest to find out the truth. There were plenty of twists I didn’t see coming. There are a lot of characters and storylines to keep track of but it’s not impossible. I’d say it’s a slow build for the first two-thirds of the but the last third really gets moving.

"One Year Gone" by Avery Bishop is more YA Genre than Women's Fiction.

Jessica Moore's 17 year old daughter, Wyn has disappeared. With no evidence of foul-play, the police have determined that Wyn is a runaway. That happens sometimes with teenagers, right? They just simply run away and disappear...

Then one year later, just as Jessica begins to come to terms with possibly never seeing her daughter again, the chilling text messages from Wyn begin! She is being held captive by an unknown man who plans to kill her. Jessica should not contact the police because Wyn believes her captor is a police officer!

With the threat to Wyn's life increasing how will the authorities handle the fact that Wyn's captor may be one of them? And, what lengths will Jessica pursue to finally find her daughter and bring her home?

Sadly, I didn't come across any likable characters in this story, not even one I could love to hate. The amount of characters seemed OTT perhaps because there were so many teenagers. The 'mean girl' and 'bad boy' character tropes were tired additions to this story, as well. So much about this book screams: 'YA genre'!

I like alternating timelines and POV's but I was confused by the two timelines in this story. This was especially true of the 'A Year Ago' timeline since theses chapters were not in sequential order. This timeline jumped A LOT!

A great premise is what leads to reading this book and I really wanted it to be a winner for me. Unfortunately, there were numerous issues working against it including believability, repetition and length of the story, the OTT descriptive writing and lack of editing. This one just wasn't for me.

Thank you to NetGalley, Lake Union Publishing and Avery Bishop for an ARC of this book. It has been my pleasure to give my honest and voluntary review.

This wasn't a terrible book by any means but it was way too long. It would have read much better with about a hundred pages edited out of it. The story is one of my favourite formats...two points of view and two different timelines...We have Wyn in the past and her mother, Jessica, in the present...but I had a hard time keeping times and characters straight. I found myself flipping back and forth to figure out where I was and who I was reading about. I didn't figure out the ending but by then I was a little bored and frustrated, plus I was asked to suspend belief a little too much.

I really enjoyed this fast paced thriller. It keeps you at the edge of your seat with all the twists and turns. I never saw the ending coming. This is an excellent recommendation for weekend lounging.

Thanks to @netgalley, @lakeunionauthors and @averybishopbooks for this E-Arc in exchange for an unbiased review.

🄿🅁🄴🄼🄸🅂🄴

Jessica Moore’s daughter Wyn vanishes. They say she ran away & she’ll be back. But days become weeks. Weeks become months. And Jessica begins to fear the terrible truth—that she may never see her daughter again. Then, one year later, when all hope seems lost, Jessica gets a flurry of text messages from Wyn that freezes her blood: “mom. please help. i think he’s going to kill me.” But Wyn’s terrified plea comes with a warning not to call the police. Her kidnapper wears a badge. Now she must decide just how far she’ll go to bring her daughter home.

🄼🅈 🅃🄷🄾🅄🄶🄷🅃🅂

What if I just said this book was ok. Would that suffice? No? Well fine. Long story short I got the jest of what the author wrote. I really had high hopes for this book. The premise sounded so great. However, there's just too much that I wasn't feeling. The story is told with numerous timelines and with many characters. There are reveals/twists one after another, you can't keep track of them all, especially when you're trying to keep track of all the characters, all of their timelines and how everyone was involved. I felt like the author was trying a bit too hard to surprise us. Twist after surprise after twist after surprise.

Then to my heartbreaking surprise I finally have been revealed one surprise that I was 𝗡𝗢𝗧 okay with and I wanted to 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐎𝐖 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊 𝐀𝐂𝐑𝐎𝐒𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐑𝐎𝐎𝐌!! So yeah, although the book may be a fast read, it isn't easy to follow and you may be a little disappointed in the end.

But, like I always say. - "On To The Next" 😉

"Nobody just disappears. Not like in movies. Or on TV. Or in books. People can't just one day up and vanish. Life isn't an elaborate magic trick. There is no magician standing in the wings whose fingertips are so powerful they can make a person disappear with one simple snap."
─ Avery Bishop, 𝑶𝒏𝒆 𝒀𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝑮𝒐𝒏𝒆

This book starts pretty strongly and really sets the scene well. However, the disjointedness of the timeframes between past and present felt jerky and unbalanced. I was expecting a murder-mystery type thriller and instead it read like a teenage high school drama unfortunately. But thank you for the opportunity to read it.

One Year Gone is a roller coaster of a ride with so many twists and turns your head will spin.

One year ago Jessica's 17 year old daughter goes missing and it is widely believed she ran away.

Her mom never stops looking for her.

Suddenly Wynn's phone beeps with a text: help me Mom.

I didn't know who to trust, who to believe .

The pages turn themselves as I raced to the ending which I did not see coming at all.

Pick up your copy of One Year Gone, you wont be sorry.

Thanks to NetGalley and Lake Union Publishing for an edge of your seat thriller.

One Year Gone was a rollercoaster of a story, it was fast paced with so many twists and turns it did tend to be a bit unrealistic in places. I enjoyed it but not as much as I thought I would.

Thank you to NetGalley and Lake Union Publishing for my ARC.

One Year Gone by Avery Bishop is a mystery/thriller read. The story in this novel is told in dual timelines from different points of view. The story in the present follows the mother after her daughter has been missing a year and the past flashes back to the daughter leading up to the disappearance.

Jessica Moore has been barely coping the last year since her seventeen year old daughter, Wyn, went missing. Turning to the bottle to console her grief Jessica hasn’t totally lost hope that she will see Wyn again as the days turn into weeks, then months and now a year.

When Wyn didn’t come home the police were called but they came to the conclusion that Wyn had simply run away from home. Jessica has always felt that weren’t true though so when she gets a text from Wyn’s phone that indicates she may have been kidnapped and is being held Jessica is sure that her daughter will come home.

Alright, I’m not sure what it is lately with picking up thrillers that I can’t even decide how I feel about them once I get to the end. One Year Gone was yet another book that I flew through reading and while it had some flaws (one point I almost threw my Kindle in frustration) I still thought I was going to finish with a flurry and end up in the plus side of the ratings. However, the ending. I just can’t. I honestly thought wow, way to go BIG on this one. But uh, yeah I’m left with a why?? feeling that I can’t shake with so many things I keep picking at with the ending now that I think back. So this one is just getting the old three stars I don’t really hate it because I was engrossed as I read but I’m not sure I even liked it that much when I’m done either.

I received an advance copy from the publisher via NetGalley.

Thank you NetGalley and Lake Union Publishing for the advanced copy!

Have you ever finished a book and immediately wanted to throw it across the room? No? Just me?

One Year Gone follows Jessica Moore’s journey to find her missing 17-year-old daughter, Wyn. The police, along with everyone else, believe she simply ran away. Late one night Jessica startles awake to a text from Wyn saying she’s being held captive. And with that, the race to find her daughter jumps into overdrive.

I had SUCH high hopes for this one and maybe that was my problem. For starters, the story is told from both Jessica and Wyn’s points of view, but it also flashes back and forth in time and I found that *so* hard to follow.

While I respect the hell out of the big twist that I NEVER saw coming, I really REALLY did not like it. It made me hella mad.

“Sometimes people just disappear. Especially teenage girls.”

Enjoyed this story and the two mysteries within. The first has to do with the mysterious disappearance of Jessica Moore’s 17-year old daughter Wynn one year ago who all of a sudden begins texting her mother with cryptic messages beginning with ‘I think he’s going to kill me’. That got my attention!

The second mystery is a long buildup related to a ‘pep rally’, the likely catalyst for Wynn’s disappearance. It is where things get a bit twisty. It was hard to resist flipping ahead. I really disliked Jessica’s character and in general there were too many peripheral characters but a solid 3-star read.

Jessica Moore returns home one morning, to find her seventeen year old daughter Wyn isn't in her room, she hasn't left a note, and her clothes, guitar and car are all gone. Jessica knows something is seriously wrong, it's very out of character for her daughter Bronwyn to leave home and not tell her. The local police inform her teenagers run away all the time and she will come home when she's ready? No one has heard from Wyn, Jessica visits the supermarket where her daughter works, checks with the high school principal, her teacher's, asks her ex-boyfriend Aaron, and they know nothing!

Weeks go by, then months and it’s a year since Jessica last had any contact with her daughter and maybe she will never see Wyn again? Unexpectedly she receives a couple of text messages from Wyn, she’s being held captive, she needs help and the man who abducted her wears a badge.

Jessica contacts the local police, they bring in extra help and a special agent. Jessica also starts delving into the time prior to her daughter going missing, her ex-partner Wyn’s father Joe Hayden and his wife Emma have been supporting her, they live in a small town and someone must have seen something? When things don’t add up, little inconsistencies in people's stories and Jessica has no idea what she’s about to uncover, who’s involved, how many people have been lying to her, she’s putting her own life in danger, who can she trust and most importantly where's Wyn?

One Year Gone is a story about a missing teenage girl, the plot has so many twists and turns and it keeps you guessing until the very end. I received a copy of this book from NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review, I was totally hooked by the end of the first chapter, well done to Avery Bishop and five stars from me.

DNF

I was very excited about this book as I had heard great things about Avery Bishop's first book, but once starting it I quickly realized this was not for me. At least right now. It had nothing to do with the writing and there are promises of twisty thriller here, but it was putting me into a mood that was not healthy. I find myself anxious when reading the POV of a mom who has lost a child. As a relatively new mom myself, it just sends me into a tailspin to contemplate this and it was just bothering me too much to be healthy for my mental state right now.

So, all that to say, I think this could most likely be a good thriller, but I do not think it is the thriller for me. I am going to rate it on its promise and just move on for my mental health. Thank you for the opportunity to read it.