Thank you to NetGalley and Sarah Pekkanen for this ARC in exchange for my honest feedback and review.

Ruth and her daughter Catherine have always only had each other. Now that Ruth has developed early onset Alzheimer's Catherine knows she must put her plans of moving away on hold to help her mother. When things with Ruth's diagnosis don't start to add up Catherine begins to question and delve into her mother's past to find the truth. Who is her mother?

I found this story to be a slow pace burn. It took awhile for me to get into it. I did end up getting approved for the advance audiobook version of this and it went much better as an audiobook for me. I personally loved how the narrator gave a voice to the characters. The second half of the story was much better than the first. Without giving it away we really get into things in the second half. For those who love slow burns this will definitely be the one for you. I am a huge fan of Sarah Pekkanen and Greer Hendricks so I absolutely recommend this one!

I have loved a few others written by Sarah Pekkanen but this was so different. This thriller follows a mother and daughter who have a contentious relationship due to the web of lies the mother has woven and the secrets she has kept. As her secrets are slowly uncovered and her former life is revealed, this ramped up in drama and had me on the edge of my seat. I really liked the backstory of the mother and found that to be very interesting. I wish there had been even more of it because it was giving me Ginny & Georgia vibes. I do think the ending was a bit lackluster and not dramatic enough for my liking, but I didn't hate it. I just wish that the ending had been more shocking and not as neatly wrapped up in a bow. I thought it was justified and the epilogue was a nice added bonus though.

Sarah Pekkanen has once again demonstrated her mastery of the thriller genre with her latest novel, Gone Tonight. This gripping tale weaves a complex web of secrets, lies, and suspense, keeping readers on the edge of their seats from start to finish.
In Gone Tonight we have a mother, Ruth, who is willing to do anything for her daughter, Catherine. Catherine is now an adult and is ready to leave the nest but her mother has other plans for her and her life.

Gone Tonight is a captivating and suspenseful read that will leave you eagerly turning the pages. Sarah Pekkanen's writing is fluid and engaging, and her ability to keep readers guessing is truly impressive. Fans of psychological thrillers and mystery novels will find much to enjoy in this well-crafted tale of suspense.

Gone Tonight is a highly recommended thriller that showcases Sarah Pekkanen's talent for crafting compelling narratives. With its compelling characters, intricate plot, and unrelenting suspense, this novel is sure to captivate fans of the genre and leave them eagerly awaiting Pekkanen's next literary offering.

Where to start this review??
The book grabbed my attention right away. By the end of the book I was wondering if telling the daughter the truth right away or soon would have be better but by the end of the book the mother choose the right answer.

I loved the way the book played out and was constantly wondering how it was going to end. Very well written!!

Thank you to #netgalley for this #arc
I usually like books by this author, but this story line had too many plot holes for me.
Ruth is on the run with her daughter Catherine trying to escape her old life, while keeping the real reason from her. She only tells Catherine minimal details about her past so that she can't put any clues together about her old life. When Catherine starts getting suspicious is when some of the plot becomes unrealistic to me.
I know this was an early version, however-I got lost at one point in the story when Catherine was talking to her mother Ruth in their living room, and the next sentence places them in the same scene driving past their old apartment in their car. I get what the author was trying to do, and it may even make a good lifetime movie, but this was just an ok story to me.

Catherine lives with her mother Ruth and they are very close, but now Catherine wants to start living a life away from her mother. She has a great opportunity awaiting her, but just as she is finalizing her plans to move away, she finds out that her mother has early Alzheimers. She wants to be with her mother during this confusing time of her mother's life, but slowly she realizes that maybe her mother has an ulterior motive for keeping Catherine close.
I thank the author, publisher and Netgalley for my ARC in exchange for my honest review.

4.5 stars

This was an excellent slow-burn, literary thriller. Catherine Sterling thinks she has a strong sense of who her mother is. Ruth is stoic, hardworking, and fiercely loyal and protective of her daughter. As Catherine prepares to move away and attend graduate school, though, Ruth will go to great lengths to make sure that doesn't happen. So begins a "dance of deception" that will keep you guessing from beginning to end.

Read if you like
-Cat-mouse stories
-Mother-daughter relationships
-Secret pasts
-Deception

I liked this but not as much as previous books by this author. This was a good plot, something different and kept me reading but a little bit all over the place with the alzeheimers plot. The characters were ok. It was a fast read.

This was a very enticing, addicting book that hooked me quickly. This story is told between alternating points of view; Ruth, a mother, and Catherine, her daughter. They have pretty much only had each other and depended on each other their whole life. Ruth has always been protective and obsessive in her relationship with her daughter.

Catherine wants to move away from her mother for a new job opportunity. That causes problems when her mom shows signs of Alzheimers. This story deals with families and things that hold them together. What would you do to protect your mother or child?

Pekkanen weaves a psychological thriller that you cannot put down! She sets the stage in Act One and when Act Two starts she does t let you go!! Fantastic book!!

I’m a huge fan of Sarah Pekkanen, especially her earlier books. Unfortunately this one felt a little flat to me. When Catherine‘s mother Ruth is diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s, Catherine is determined to know her mom better. But it quickly seems that Ruth isn’t who she says she is. As Catherine digs deeper into Ruth’s past, she puts herself and her mother in terrible danger.
I didn’t find this to be Pekkanen’s best work, I prefer her prior writing style.

I really enjoyed the dual POVs in this book. While you’re reading act one, you think the story is going one way, and then as act two comes around, you discover a whole new set of twists and turns that continue until the end of the book. I would recommend it!

Gone Tonight is told from the voices of Catherine Sterling and her mother Ruth along with flashbacks from Ruth’s troubled youth.
Catherine is a twenty-four year old nurse and ready to start her new job and begin her life In Baltimore. Upon learning her mother Ruth has Alzheimer’s, Catherine’s plans for her future abruptly changes. She must now immediately stop everything and care for her mother.
Her mother explains there there is a history of Alzheimer’s in the family. Catherine’s grandmother struggled with the disease until her death.

Catherine’s mother has told her little of her past so she starts researching, longing to know who she is, other than Ruth’s only child. She has concerns that her mother is deliberately keeping things from her. Could her mother be protecting from something dangerous about her past?

Well, she’s got that right because Ruth has bern running and looking over her shoulder since she was sixteen years old. That’s why they are constantly moving and never are allowed to get close to anyone.

The book is tense, twisty, jaw dropping and you won’t want to put it down.

I loved the author’s style here with the alternating chapters as Ruth and Catherine tell the story. Just when you get to a really tense point from Ruth’s life the chapter ends as Catherine tells her side of things. I couldn’t wait to read more and more.

I highly recommend this one for mystery/thriller readers

This one was just okay. Maybe slightly more so, because I still managed to finish in under 24 hours. Nothing really seemed to hook me about this one though. It was simply just okay. Not sure if I would recommend.

I have read all of the books by coauthors Sarah Pekkanen and Greer Hendricks. I usually enjoy their thrillers so even though this was a solo book by Pekkanen I wanted to give her a try!

This book had two points of view, one from the mother and one from the daughter. And my main complaint is that their voices sounded too similar. Each section felt like I was reading the same person and I couldn’t help but think if Hendricks would have written one that they would have been more distinct. Regardless of who authored what, the tone of the two characters was too similar, which was weird when it started out because nothing had happened yet. We start with Catherine’s mother Ruth being diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s but they are acting as if a murder mystery has already started. It just didn’t make sense to me.

Once things start rolling and secrets begin to be revealed my interest definitely picked up and the tone makes sense, but it just didn’t fit for the whole book. I started to like it a bit more when the action starts but in the end I still just wasn’t super happy with how it all ended up. It was still a decent thriller just not my favorite.

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for an ARC of this book.

Thank you NetGalley & St. Martin’s Press for this advance copy. I was really intrigued by the synopsis for this book, and it started strong with the dual POV and a strong sense of suspense. But then it just stalled for me. The pacing was too drawn out to keep me pulled into the story. I liked Ruth’s journal entries, but I wish they revealed information at a faster pace. I think I expected a thriller, but this read more like a family drama.

"Gone Tonight" by Sarah Pekkanen is a well written, compelling book. Catherine and her mother Ruth had always been each other's entire world. Ruth had struggled as a young single mother after her family disowned her. Yet she had managed to create a family for the two of them and was always able to provide usually by waiting tables. Catherine graduated from nursing school and had scored a job at prestigious Johns Hopkins Hospital and was looking forward to beginning her adult life. But then her mother's health began failing and the symptoms pointed to early onset Alzheimer's disease. Catherine prepared to change her plans. Ruth had shared virtually nothing about her life before her baby was born and Catherine became determined to find out as many details as she could before her mother's memory was gone. The more she learned ,the more confused and frightened she became.

Thanks to St Marten's Press and NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for an honest review.

This was a story with many layers. It was engrossing, however none of the characters were likeable and it was not an easy read.

Gone Tonight
Thriller
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I really enjoyed this book! It had a great storyline that was slow burning with a tension building. The further I read on the harder it was to set down. I loved the character building in this! It was full of surprises all the way up until the end!

This was a great read! I really enjoyed the characters and the plot. Though sometimes the characters made me mad!! It held my attention and kept me on my toes! A sold 4 star read!!