Minka Kent is one of my trusted authors that I turn to when I’m in the mood for a fast paced and entertaining thriller. I liked the concept here and it’s told from sisters Celia and Gen’s POV in alternating timelines. It’s pacey and there’s lots of secrets being revealed throughout and I really enjoyed the majority. The ending did fall a little flat for me, I was expecting it to pack more of a punch but overall that aspect didn’t really take away from my enjoyment of the whole thing.

You honestly can’t go wrong when you read a Minka Kent book! I’ve been reading her for awhile now and she’s become one of my favorite authors. Gone Again is the story of Celia Guest. She’s living the perfect life, everything is beautiful, her marriage, her home and she has a whole slew of wonderful friends. But Celia comes from a very strange family. She’s had a really damaged childhood. Since the age of 14 she has been keeping a secret and on her 40th birthday, that secret is about to be exposed. This story was so good, it was sickening and twisted and it kept me reading late into the night. I felt so bad for the way these daughters were raised and astonished at how well they turned out in the end. It’s a story of forgiveness and finding closure by exposing the guilty by speaking the truth. I enjoyed this story so much and thoroughly recommend it to others. I’d like to thank NetGalley and Thomas & Mercer for the arc to read, review and enjoy. This was a very entertaining and enjoyable read and I’m giving it a 5 star rating.

This book was a page turner from beginning to end. I gotta say I thought I had it figured out in the end. I absolutely did not. Highly recommend. I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

I throughly enjoyed this book! Very well written and completely captured my attention. I loved the back and forth from past to current, which I don’t usually enjoy unless it’s easy to follow! I am horrible for DNFing books if they don’t capture my attention right away but I didn’t want to put this one down and read it as quickly as possible. Several twists that I didn’t see coming so it definitely isn’t a cookie cutter psychological thriller!

Like her numerous previous books, Minka Kent’s latest release, Gone Again is a mystery thriller. Having celebrated her fortieth birthday, Celia Guest goes missing and the police aren’t concerned as they determine it’s voluntary. As the days pass by, her estranged sister Genevieve starts to ask questions to try and understand why Celia has once again disappeared. Narrated by the two sisters and with flashbacks to twenty-five years earlier, Celia and Genevieve’s troubled childhood and deeply buried secrets come to life. An engaging tale of a strict religious family upbringing and the hidden secrets that continue to impact their adult lives. The solid psychological basis and depiction of child trauma survivors make this for a believable three and a half stars rating. With thanks to Thomas & Mercer and the author, for an uncorrected advanced review copy for review purposes. As always, the opinions herein are totally my own and freely given.

I LOVED this read. It was so fast pace, and a short length without leaving out any great plot points. I really had no idea where this book was going to lead, but I enjoyed the multiple POV's and flashbacks, it was just enough to break it up and keep it interesting, without being too confusing to keep track of timelines and characters. I enjoyed the look into Genevieve and Celia's childhood, it was heartbreaking and hard to read at times but added to the thriller/dark vibes in a completely different way than the Celia going missing story line. I devoured this book in one saturday! 10/10 recommend!

I have been a huge minka kent fan since I read her first book years ago and she did not disappoint! As I recently turned 40, all the books about women having 40th birthdays that i have read recently make me feel excited and sad lol

I love Minka Kent and was thrilled to get this early copy. The sister storyline is always a go to for my taste. This was just okay to be honest. Loved this authors other books much better

This book was shocking for me. I never read anything from this author. before. I thought this was well written and very intriguing, I thought it was done so well and kept me interested the whole time. Honestly that's pretty hard to do anymore. Will be picking more up from this author..

I’m not exactly sure why, but I was hooked on this book as I had to find out what was happening! It was such a quick and entertaining read, it had me flipping the pages so fast. While I figured out a few of the plot twist, I was still fully satisfied with this enjoyable read. This isn’t my favorite book my Kent, I would recommend this book if you are looking for a domestic suspense/thriller.

***** Many thanks to Thomas & Mercer, Minka Kent, and NetGalley for the #gifted copy as it was provided to me in turn for my honest opinion.

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This was my first book by Minka Kent and I really enjoyed it. Celia and her two sisters have had a very rough childhood, and the story toggles between their adult life and then their childhood and what they had to go through. The events that happened at the end surprised me, and I couldn’t put it down because I had to find out what would happen next. 4/5 stars.

Huge amount of thanks to NetGalley and Thomas and Mercer publishing for an advance copy of this book!
Celia is loved. Her husband throws her a lavish 40th birthday party with all of her friends in attendance. Unable to sleep afterwards, she goes through thoughtful gifts and cards, blissfully unaware that one is not like the others.
‘You don’t deserve any of this’ is the message left for her and it strikes fear into her heart. Celia has secrets, and someone has finally found her out. As she flees the city and life she loves, she wonders who knows her secrets and what’s coming next.
Minka Kent is a favorite of mine. Once again, I am not disappointed! Publication date is March 7. Check it out!

Thanks to NetGalley and Thomas & Mercer for this read. This was not the book for me. When I started it, I said this is quite interesting to read about their past and how they grew to see how it shaped them but as it went further in...just became boring to me and one level. I think I just did not care for how they grew up and how it is going now. I think I need more details for why things went the way they did and that was why I could not get more into the book. I think with more details it would have been more interesting.

In this novel of escalating fear and suspense by Washington Post and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Minka Kent, a secret from a woman’s past unearths a lifetime of lies. How long can she run from the past?

On her fortieth birthday, Celia Guest has reason to celebrate. She has a loving marriage, a beautiful Connecticut home, and treasured friends. Celia has everything she’s ever wanted. But among the cards and well-wishes, she discovers a disturbing note: You don’t deserve any of this.

Who could be so cruel, so resentful, so…knowing? Then, in the early morning hours, Celia vanishes without a trace.

As suspicions and concerns rise among Celia’s friends, her sister Genevieve, with whom she shares a fractured and troubling bond, starts to piece together a shattered life that Celia fled from once before. As a foundation of lies begins to crumble, a terrifying childhood secret Celia thought was dead and buried comes to light.

And this time, there’s no getting away from the truth.



I have been a fan of Minka Kent for awhile. So of course I wanted to read her newest book and man did she not disappoint! Easy to read chapters that left you with unanswered questions!

"Sisterhood is a messy, beautiful, complex kaleidoscope of emotions."

Happily married with a beautiful home, surrounded by friends at her 40th birthday party, Celia seems to have it all. But she receives a cryptic note saying that she doesn't deserve any of it. And then she goes missing.

Gone Again, the latest Minka Kent thriller, is told from the dual perspective of Celia and her sister, Genevieve, alternating between past and present, as Genevieve tries to solve the mystery behind Celia's disappearance. Everyone is a suspect as secrets and lies, manipulation and deceit rise to the surface. The reader learns about Celia's tortured past, including her family's religious fanaticism and her need to run away from it all.

"If there’s anything I’ve learned over the years, it’s that grown-ups wear personalities like masks, switching them out when the moment calls for it."

Minka Kent always pulls me in with her books and she's the author who got me back into reading a few years back. At first, this story reminded me of The Thinnest Air but it later became something else entirely. That being said, the characters in this book were highly unlikable and I found it quite difficult to empathize with either Celia or Genevieve. The alternating timeline was linear in the present but the past jumped around through the years and disrupted the flow of the story. However, short and quick moving chapters drew my attention and interest as did some surprising and disturbing twists.

"How many years did I spend in emotional anguish, mourning the relationship we didn’t get a chance to have, only to have her wave it all away like it didn’t matter?"

Who or what do you believe? How do you decide who to trust? Celia's husband, Rob, who seemed to bring out her light or her estranged sister, Genevieve, who she barely knew anymore? This was a tangle of emotions within a fractured family trying to make themselves whole again. It was a story about jealousy and betrayal, regrets and resentment, wrapped up in the tenuous bonds of sisterhood. Instead of the mystery/thriller aspect, that was the best part of the story, that of connecting with the people in your life who truly belong there. I did like the ending but it left me with too many unanswered threads and questions that I would have liked to see resolved. I'm still not even sure exactly what happened to Celia when she went missing. The book is still worth reading especially for mystery and domestic thriller fans looking for something a little different.

"It’s terrifying the things we’ll do in the name of those we love— and in the name of those who love us."

** Special thanks to author Minka Kent, Thomas & Mercer and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this ARC. All thoughts and opinions expressed are my own. Quotes subject to change at time of publication. Available March 7, 2023. **

Finally got out of my reading slump! I have read other books by this author and Gone Again did not disappoint, I read this book in just a few days, what a page turner, this story goes back and forth, between the past and present and with a few twists and turns throughout the book. Thank you NetGalley for the advanced copy.

Minka Kent is a highly underrated suspense author - she writes seriously engaging, compelling novels and I am here for it. Gone Again ultimately left me feeling a little... off about the title? Something about the title, synopsis, and actual plot didn't fit quite right for me - weird but true, and I can't put my finger on it.

That said, I am more than willing to get over the title not matching the content for me, because this was seriously twisted and bizarre. The relationships between Celia and her sisters are so well portrayed, and they make so much sense. Plus, the slow release of details and alternating perspectives pack a huge punch with this one. Super enjoyed it, as always!

I truly enjoyed this book. The plot, the characters, the unknown of what happened that night, Genevieve meddling in Celia's life, everything just had me reading non-stop. Loved it!

I'm definitely recommending this book to all my friends! Thank you to Minka Kent for writing it, Thomas & Mercer for publishing it, and to NetGalley for providing the platform.

It's the night of Celia's 40th birthday party and she can't sleep. As she starts opening the gifts her friends gave her, she also receives a disturbing note and then decides to hop a train into NYC to clear her mind. A little extreme IMO, but apparently Celia has a habit of disappearing for awhile when things get rough... especially in her childhood. In duel timelines, Celia is one of the daughters of extremely religious parents, and Celia finds ways to rebel any way she can. This leaves her sister Genevieve to pick up the pieces and take care of their younger sister Celeste.

This was a fast-paced story, and I didn't expect the twist because I thought something else was going to be revealed. I felt like the story built and built, and was suspenseful, but then things wrapped up pretty quickly at the end with a few loose ends. Overall, it was a good mystery that kept me reading.

Another perfectly fine but unremarkable novel from this author. I have never loved, nor have I ever disliked, anything I've read by her. Gone Again is a decent way to spend an afternoon: it's brisk and mostly interesting, and the writing is good. The ending was too easy and abrupt, I thought, but Kent is adept at predicting what we think, as readers of these kinds of domestic thrillers/white girl missing books, is coming and giving it a bit of a twist without completely upending the genre or pulling stuff out of left field.