I was hooked from page one, but unfortunately that did not last very long. The start of the book was great - thriller, family drama, questions about what happened and why. Who can you trust? But as the book went on, that incredible draw continued to simmer. The character is repetitive. The story line becomes too complicated - too many smaller side stories that take away from the main one. They are mostly unnecessary for the main story line either. That being said, I was taking on an emotional roller coaster through this book. A missing sister, a sick grandmother, a young child and a drug addicted mom. There are some incredibly well done psychological thriller parts, especially early on in the book. Overall, parts were really well done and other parts fell flat for me.

Thank you netgalley for my advanced reader copy.

I normally ready Romance but when I saw Tarryn Fisher after reading her collab with Colleen Hoover, I had to read this. Oh my gosh it had me hooked and playing detective from the beginning. I felt proud of myself when I guessed a few story pieces. The best kind of book…unpredictable!

Iris’s sister was kidnapped 20 years ago. The case went cold and the kidnapper was never found. Iris now has a son and is interning at a hospital for the criminally insane. She is determined to figure out the truth about her sisters disappearance. Overall I enjoyed this book. I did find some parts to move a little slowly but I did want to continue to read to figure out what happened!

Having read and enjoyed The Wives by Tarryn Fisher, I was excited to have the chance to review her upcoming title, Good Half Gone. The beginning of the novel starts off with a bang, and the phone call transcript with 9-1-1 was a great hook. I also liked the Past and Present narration, but soon after the start of the book, I was lost. There were so many alternate plot lines that ultimately contributed - in my opinion - nothing to the story. I can't even make the argument for it being for character development or to understand Iris's motivations, because it didn't do that, either. I'd say about 85% of the book was bogged down by these plot lines and unnecessary events, and there was a distinct lack of suspense, too.

The final 10% of the book made up for that lack of suspense, but it was almost too much. The climax came out of nowhere, and the resolution was just okay. I don't have much else to say about Good Half Gone except it took me a month to finish it, and that I'm a little disappointed with Fisher's newest book.

Thank you to the publisher via NetGalley for providing me with a digital advanced copy of Good Half Gone by Tarryn Fisher in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own and are not influenced by any third parties.

I was completely blown away by this book! The twists came fast and furious during the last half of the book. This book was a real page turner!

As usual, Fisher never fails to disappoint! The mystery and suspense were perfect. I always love the thrill and twists that Fisher gives us and this book was no different! She'll forever be a one click author for me!

Piper and Iris are twins but very different, Piper loves the limelight and being the center of attention and Iris prefers staying in the background. They didn’t have the easiest childhood especially with a mother whose addicted to drugs, they finally find some stability when they live with their grandmother. One day spent at the mall and going to the movies with a couple boys they don’t know very well, Iris watches in horror when Piper is kidnapped, no one besides their grandmother is believing Iris and that includes the police they assume Piper just took off. As time goes by and no clues are found the case goes cold.
Years later Iris feels like now is the perfect time to finally get the answers she’s been desperately searching for. She has gotten an internship for her masters program , at the infamous isolated Shoal Island Hospital for the criminally insane. This is because the monster who she believes has hurt or possibly killed her sister might be one of the violent patients there in area D. Does she really know if he is the criminal or could her plan hurt someone innocent , all she knows is she needs answers. We follow along with Iris as she immerses herself within corridors of the state hospital. The more she’s there Iris soon realizes that something more dark and sinister is beneath the surface of the Shoal, and the ending will shock you! I loved this book the layers and characters grabbed my attention and I couldn’t put the book down!

This book is completely bingeable.

Almost a decade ago, Iris's twin sister, Piper was kidnapped right in front of her. The police don't believe her and consider Piper a runaway. Now, Iris is still determined to find answers. She has worked her way into a prestigious internship at an asylum for the criminally insane, located on a secluded island. She believes that her sister is dead, and the man who killed her is held there.

Thoughts -
I really liked this one a lot. I thought the writing was great and it kept me hooked from start to finish. Usually, I don't like unrealistic police plotlines, but this worked for me. You need to be prepared for the lazy police investigation to just not really make sense. Iris identifies one of the kidnappers but doesn't know the name of his two friends. These are presumably high schoolers, and the police can't seem to get anywhere with the info, which seemed off to me.

I liked that the book is split between the past and present with little mini plot twists as the story unfolds. I don't want to give too much away, but it was done in a way that didn't feel like the narrator was keeping secrets, we just hadn't gotten to that part of the story yet.

The author did a great job with all the characters working in the asylum. I had an uneasy feeling the entire time I was reading the present timeline, which was exactly how I felt I should feel. The ending was a little bit much and wildly unrealistic, but I enjoyed that there weren't really any plot holes. Typically, I dislike unrealistic endings if they don't make sense. This one isn't believable, but it was all explained and tied up nicely.

Overall, I read this book in two days, and could have done it in one, if I hadn't started reading so late at night when I first started it. I will be looking for more books by this author.

Just like all of Tarryn’s previous books (both romance and thriller), Good Half Gone was entirely bingeable and such a fast paced, quick easy read. I’m not sure how ultra-hardcore thriller fans are going to be with this one, but as someone who enjoys a twisty thriller every once in a while, I absolutely enjoyed it.

The setting of a Pysch Hospital for dangerous criminals set on a remote island in Washington state’s San Juan Islands was so spooky and perfect and I especially loved the dual timelines we had going on from past and present.

I will say the ending wrapped up in a BIG AND DRAMATIC way and it happened so quickly that I almost felt like I got whiplash, but having read all of Tarryn’s previous works, I think it was intentional. I will say I wish the resolution had been explained with a bit more care, but ultimately I still really loved this book and finished it in a day!

While I think this book will be a hit, it was a bit of a miss for me. I didn't find it as quick of a read as I anticipated and wasn't as eager to see "what happened" as I would like to be.
A solid effort, but not my favourite by this author.
Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for the ARC to read and review.

In Good Half Gone, Iris has spent her adult life trying to find proof of what happened to her twin sister years ago. As part of her plan, she accepts a job on a remote island that houses the “criminally insane.”

I loved the descriptions of the island. The author describes it with such detail that makes it easy to feel the creepiness someone would feel as soon as they step off the boat onto the island.

Overall, I struggled to get into this story. Throughout it, multiple characters abuse their positions of power. There is little character development which makes it hard to understand their decision making and choices. Most of the book felt unrealistic. There are pieces of the story that seemed to be missing information or transitions which made it difficult to follow.

Thank you NetGalley and Harlequin Trade for providing this ARC.

Thank you to the publisher for my copy - all opinions are my own.

Oh man, did I want to love this book so much more than I did. On paper this has all the things I really love in a twisty thriller - missing twin, obsessive search for answers, atmospherically claustrophobic setting on an island in a prison for the criminally insane, morally ambiguous characters......all excellent elements for a suspenseful thriller. And I am a fan of Tarryn's work, so I know to expect the unexpected. But in this case, the unexpected was a little much, even for me.

Don't get me wrong there were some well done elements to this story. Unfortunately, there were also some plot holes the size of Russia in this story. Threads of the story that were weighted in the narrative with importance but then fizzle into nothingness. Twists that are not only wild, but absolutely not even remotely plausible. I got to the end of this one and I was just.....confused. Does it, in theory, all tie together with answers? Yes. Do any of the answers make much sense? Very much no.

This is a 2.5, maybe a soft 3 star for me, because I was admittedly entertained right through to the last third where the really wild left turns started hitting hard and fast. I just wish this story had done more with the believable elements of the mystery because there was some fantastic potential here.

One to read if you are willing to go in for the entertainment alone.

Wow by far one of the better books I’ve read of hers in a while!

The mystery and suspense was so enticing. I couldn’t stop listening. There were so many twists this story had. It left me confused and excited.

While I feel like what we learn at the end is so unrealistic I loved the story.

If Tarryn writes a book, I will read it. Iris's twin sister Piper went missing years ago, and she is willing to go to the ends of the earth to figure out what truly happened to her. 8 years later, her plans are falling into place and she is finally going to get to meet the one person that can possibly tell her where her sister went, but first she will have to get through all the secrets and lies.
We go back and forth between past and present trying to understand what happened. This is more of a mystery rather than a thriller to me, so I think everyone should go in expecting that. I didn't feel the "thriller" aspect, but it did keep me in suspense trying to weave together the timelines and different aspects of the book.
I will say that I guessed the twist pretty early and was screaming at Iris most of the book, but that could be because I have read a lot of thrillers and can see twists coming usually. There were a lot of things I enjoyed about this book, namely Iris, her dedication to her sister eventhough she was hit with road block after road block. The police were no help and it just made me feel so sad and frustrated for her and her family.
There were a lot of story lines that I felt didn't pan out though, or have much to do with the story and that did bother me. I think they were thrown in to distract from the twist that was coming, but I just wanted them to have a resolution.
If you love a suspenseful read with lots of twists, this is your book!
Thanks to Graydon House, Netgalley and Tarryn for an early copy.

Tarryn Fisher's Good Half Gone had me turning pages well into the night.

Iris Walsh is a young Psych student who scores her dream placement at the isolated Shoal Island, home for the criminally insane. But Iris is not just there to learn, she is there to find out what happened to her twin sister, Piper, who was kidnapped when they were only 15. Do the dangerous, violent, and haunting criminals in the D ward hold the answers? Iris is determine to find out for herself.

Fisher tells the story from Iris' POV bouncing between the present day and Iris' past. The chapters are so easily consumable that you will find yourself saying, "just one more".

The ending is a bit fantastical and you definitely have to suspend reality a bit to fully enjoy it, but I don't mind a bit of elaborate story telling when the rest of the storyline holds up.

Definitely recommend!

Thank you to NetGalley and Harlequin Trade Publishing for a free copy in exchange for a fair and honest review.

This was so good! I was hooked from the very beginning and read almost all of it in one sitting. The book goes back and forth from Iris in present day, working in a hospital for the criminally insane, to her past when her sister was kidnapped and no one took it seriously. This was infuriating and really, really fun.

Wow! This was my first Tarryn Fisher, and I'll be looking to read more of her books in the future. I gobbled this one up in half a day in a single sitting. I loved Iris' character and her humbling beginnings raised by her grandmother after being abandoned by her mother. That background makes the kidnapping of her twin sister even more tragic, and it makes us root for her even more when she perseveres and lands a coveted internship at an institution for the criminally insane on Shoal Island. That isolated setting enhances the atmosphere and plays into the plot as it unfolds into something much more sinister than Iris can ever imagine. I highly recommend this one.

This was a rare miss for me when it comes to Tarryn Fisher! Don’t get me wrong it was good but I feel like I’ve come to expect a better twist, a deeper felt story. I saw the end coming which is always disappointing but overall it was a pretty good read. Thanks to NetGalley for the chance to review!

Good Half Gone by Tarryn Fisher is a thriller with two timelines following a sister seeking her twin who was abducted in front of her. It is highly recommended.

When they were both fifteen, twin sisters Iris and Piper Walsh went to the movies. As they were leaving a couple young men grabbed Piper, threw her into a car and sped off. Iris contacted the police, but the officers didn't believe her, assuming Piper was just another runaway. By the time they took her seriously, it was too late. The girls were being raised by their loving grandmother who rescued them from their neglectful mother. A decade later after college Iris accepts an internship at Shoal Island Hospital for the criminally insane. She believes her sister's killer is locked up there.

The plot unfolds through two timelines. In the first Iris is a teen looking for Piper, seeking clues about her abductors, and struggling to continue on without her twin. In the second Iris is now in her 20's with a son and she accepts the internship position at the Shoal Island Hospital with ulterior motives. Both plot threads are compelling and add important details to the narrative. They also move at an uneven pace with several distractions along the way.

Iris is a fully realized character. Readers will know what motivates her and drives her to proceed as she does in each time period. Piper, her twin, has a very different personality and that also comes through. Readers will appreciate her grandmother and the love she has for the girls. The depiction of the grief Iris and her grandmother share for the loss of Piper is well done, as is the obsession Iris has in her search for her twin.

The ending requires the reader to accept a colossal dose of disbelief, which I just couldn't do. I can often set aside disbelief and go with the flow, but in this case it was too implausible. I can't ruin the ending by listing all the reasons why, but let's just say it would be paragraphs and lists. However, it can't be denied that it is an entertaining, action-packed ending. Thanks to Graydon House for providing me with an advance reader's copy via NetGalley. My review is voluntary and expresses my honest opinion.

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Twin stories are always tricky, but this one was enjoyable enough for 3 stars. Although this is strictly a mystery I did need more thriller vibes and was left a bit disappointed. Twin sisters Iris and Piper never had it easy, and with an addict mother in the picture their grandmother took them in and raised them. Piper disappears one day leaving Iris and her grandmother searching for answers. The "search" setting takes place at an institution for the criminially insane, which was interesting. There are all these little twists and turns weaved in throughout the book, and that kept me invested till the end to find out what happened. I do feel that Iris's character came across very conflicting. One minute she hates on her sister and the next she can't live on without finding the truth behind Piper's disappearance. I would have liked a solid MC. "Fisher" writes a compelling story, but just a few points shy from her previous awesome works left me wanting more out of this book.

Thank you Netgalley and Harlequin Trade Publishing for awarding me the opportunity to read and review this ARC.