This one had my undivided attention at least the first 20% or so, then I kind of lost interest there for a little bit. I didn’t care much for the romance. Towards the end of the book my interested picked up again, I won’t know if it’s just me, but it felt a little unrealistic. I did enjoy that the story gives us glimpses of the past. I appreciate that in a novel. Overall is an interesting story that has lots of potential, but here and there it fell a little flat for me. Maybe this author just isn’t for me.

3.75 stars

Good Half Gone is a super intriguing and fast paced thriller. I read this SO quickly, it was as if my life depended on it lol. I just had to keep turning the pages to unravel the story.

Told in present and past tense, we see our main character, Iris, witness her twin sister, Piper, kidnapped when they were young teens and then we see what happens right after that.

Now, Iris is an adult and she’s still obsessing over what happened. Specifically, the lack of police investigation. She takes a job at a mental hospital for the criminally insane. There are REALLY REALLY weird vibes at this hospital and it’s super eerie and creepy.

I read this so fast and loved so much of it, but unfortunately the last little bit became so unbelievable to me (which as a thriller reader, takes a lot lol) to the point that it felt a bit like a cop out. It was also really rushed at the end, despite other parts of the book being drawn out.

Overall, I would recommend this one if you like Lucy Foley.

Thank you to Harlequin Trade Publishing and Greydon House for my copy of this!

Really enjoyed this one! Great story, didn’t follow the cookie cutter pattern of most thrillers.
The scene was fantastic, and a great mix of likable and unlikable characters. A few loose ends at the ending, would have liked a more detailed conclusion. Also, some characters just seem to disappear 3/4 through the book and are never mentioned again.
But overall a very good read

What did I just read??? It grips you from page one!! Thanks to NetGalley for letting me read this in exchange for an honest review!

Iris Walsh saw her twin, Piper, get kidnapped when they were both teenagers. As an adult Iris is still looking for proof about what happened to Piper so she decides to intern at Shoal Hospital for the criminally insane (we’re never told what she’s interning as, and she seems to work everywhere…nursing, psychology, but hang on because that’s not the only thing that makes no sense.)

Naturally the hospital is on an island and is in a creepy old Victorian house. The story is told in alternating chapters, then and now.

Ah, Shoal Hospital, where the unethical is apparently all in a day’s work. Iris pressures people for information they have no business giving and she has no cause to ask for. The book is not well written and the author keeps making leaps that don’t quite work. And then, the big finish? Let me just say it’s something that’s been tried before, barely worked then and is absolutely ludicrous this time around. It makes no, zero sense. I can’t recommend this at all.

Good Half Gone by Tarryn Fisher

How do you sit and stew on a book after you read it with a “What in the F$*#k did I just read?!” Mentality …. Like whoa! I like to digest books after I read and this one might take an extra short time to do just that.

Tarryn has always been one of those authors whose stories bend the mind and keep you guessing till the end. But make you feel everything the character is feeling.

Iris Walsh had a twin that was trafficked and she keeps reliving the horror of the event. Struggling with smells from the moment it happened and she can’t get over the fact the authorities have not for. Enough to bring her twin sister Piper home.
This intense story wraps around her struggle with family and the search for her sister. It is twisty, and intense and I could not put it down. What a wicked world we live in and Tarryn depicts the horror in each page!

Seriously??? I want to start by stating that I am a fan of Tarryn Fisher. I requested this book in hopes of the initial vibes I got from The Wives and The Wrong Family. I did feel Never Never was a total let down, but I was willing to write that off as the unfortunate side effects of a collab. But Good Half Gone just didn’t do it!

The novel started off amazingly. I was hooked from the 911 phone call where Iris reports her twin, Piper, was taken. From the past to the present the reader is tracing Iris’s journey as she attempts to piece together what happened to her twin. I found the past to be far more interesting and felt all the feels…anger at the inability of the police to take her abduction seriously, fear of reprisal for Iris, and gut-wrenching terror that Piper was now LOST to her. This is all in the first two-thirds of the book, and then the story goes off the rails.

Iris cues Leo in far too early on her plans. Their relationship happens too quickly, is beyond inappropriate, and totally unbelievable. I don’t get the list of names Iris is looking at in D, when in a later chapter we are just thrown the subject’s name of her focus. The connection and importance of my previous sentences are revealed as a “supposed twist”, but they are woven sloppily. Unfortunately, I felt that the start of the book nowhere near matches the final 1/3. It’s like I was reading two unrelatable plots that should have been separate stories.

I also feel Piper’s story was unjustly completed. There was just so much that could have been done. For example, focusing on the fact that sex trafficking and targeting of at-risk minors is a very real and very serious issue. Also, that local police are overworked in other areas and incapable of following through on these massive trafficking rings without federal intervention. I digress…this one just let me down in the end. However, the beginning is worthy of interest and other readers may disagree with my final review.

Let me start this off by saying I LOVE Tarryn Fisher's books. From the moment I read her first book "I can be a better you"

So let's get into Good Half Gone. The gist of it is, Iris and Piper are twins. As with most twins (at least in books) Iris is more to herself and almost "weird" compared to Piper who is popular etc. Iris watches are Piper is taken away by two boys and then she never sees her again.

The book goes back and forth between the past and the present. Iris is still determined to find out what happen to her sister.

Ok so there was a lot to unload here. There were a lot of different characters that may seem insignificant but wind up being a key to the story. It was easy to follow the back and forth between the timelines. For the first time ever, I had my suspicions about what the twist would be, but I also didn't think I was right because I figured there was no way in hell I could be right (spoiler alert, I was)

My only compliant about the book was that the ending seemed a little too rush and there was a little to much going on.

However, I enjoyed the lead characters. Especially Gran who was a spitfire and reminded me of my own grandmother. All were well written and I especially liked Iris.

Thank you so much to #NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read and review this book.

Good Half Gone by Tarryn Fisher is a psychological thriller full of twists and turns.

Iris's twin sister has been kidnapped, and no one but her Grandma believes her. A decade later, she is still trying to get justice....what lengths will she go to to finally get the answers she needs?????

Told in past/present timelines that this novel gives off major eerie vibes, especially the mental hospital on an island.

Tarryn Fisher always delivers a well written masterpiece, and this books start seems to be no different. Was given an arc of the first couple of chapters and now I am impatiently awaiting the rest of the book to see where the characters go.

When Iris and Piper were fifteen, Piper was kidnapped; trafficked and gone long before the cops cared to investigate.

Iris only wants proof of what happened to her. In order to get it, she gets a job at a remote hospital where she thinks Piper’s killer is detained. However, Iris soon realizes that something sinister is lurking at the hospital, and the patients aren’t the only ones being observed.

This book was entertaining. I enjoyed that there were several twists, but it was just the perfect amount. Not too few that I got bored, or too many that I got overwhelmed. Iris was an interesting character and very likeable. I particularly enjoyed the past and present timelines, though I felt that the past didn’t exactly give me the answers into what happened to Piper that I was looking for. I just think that it should have been handled slightly differently than it was. I did enjoy the reveals once they started coming. The first reveal wasn’t a stretch based on what we knew and while I was surprised, I wasn’t shocked. The reveals at the end were my favorite and a lot of fun where I was on the edge of my seat. The pacing in this book was uneven with the beginning being rather slow, then the ending being almost too fast. I wish that it would have been more even throughout.

This book does wrap up all the loose ends, and the ending was satisfactory. The journey was a little rocky and I wish a few things were different. I did enjoy this read, but it wasn’t a top read for me.

Thank you to the publisher, Harlequin Trade Publishing, Graydon House, and Netgalley for this e-arc in exchange for an honest review.

Tarryn Fisher is quickly becoming an author that I must read her books as soon as published! I loved this story for many reasons. A story about sisterly bonds and the desperation to know what happened to her. The obsessive need to know what happened to her. Throw in the mix and institution with "crazy" murderers and I'm all in. This book was great and will highly recommend.

I've read one or two novels by this author and could t wait to dive in to this one.

This was a gripping story and there were definitely some twists I did not see coming! Thai did not disappoint and I can't wait to tell my reader friends about it!

Piper and Iris are twins but they couldn’t be more different. When Piper, the pretty and popular twin, is kidnapped the local police assume it’s a simple runaway case resulting in a cold case. Now as an adult, Iris will stop at nothing to get answers. Iris takes an internship at Shoal Island Hospital for the criminally insane in order to get next to the one man she believes can give her answers but she quickly realizes that she might have just made herself a target for a murderer.

Good Half Gone is a twisty mystery thriller in which a twin searches for answers on her sister disappearance years earlier. What initially appears as a woman trying to move on after trauma quickly becomes a woman with a plan..only her plan isn’t working out exactly as she had hoped. I really wanted to love this one but I kind of guessed most of the plot twists along the way so I wasn’t very surprised by the ending. This was still an enjoyable weekend read to cozy up with.

This book was a miss for me. I found the entire book confusing, boring and at one point I wanted to just give up on it. The ending was rushed and completely ridiculous. Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

First off, I want to thank NetGalley for the ARC of this book. Secondly, I absolutely hate leaving less than stellar reviews, especially for a book that has been gifted to me. If someone is generous enough to let me have it for free, I almost feel obligated to write something good. I just can’t. This absolutely did not work for me. The entire time I was reading it I got Freida McFadden Ward D vibes. That book didn’t work for me either. The timelines don’t connect giving the whole book a very disjointed feeling. Multiple random characters are introduced that serve no purpose in the story. Add to that, plot holes galore and the absolute impossibility of the entire ending of the book. I can suspend my belief in reality for a good ghost story. I cannot suspend my belief in reality for what is supposed to be a psychological thriller. Nothing that happened on the island (or in most of the rest of the book for that matter) would ever happen in a real life hospital for the criminally insane. I wanted to love it… I really did. Unfortunately it all fell short for me.

Wow. What a great suspenseful thriller. I was hooked from page one. As a mom of two girls, this book really tore me up. Was not expecting the ending at all. What a great twist. Great story. I would definitely recommend this to anybody into thrillers. Tarryn never disappoints.

Iris’s twin sister Piper was kidnapped when they were teenagers. Iris saw it happen but the cops assumed she was a runaway. Iris spends her life trying to find out what really happened to her sister that day.

Wow. This one was a fast-paced, couldn’t put down book! There was so much going on, I just had to keep reading! Part of it is set in a creepy prison for the criminally insane, that you have to take a boat to reach. The characters are well written and likeable. So much happens at the last part of the book I’m still trying to absorb it!

I loved this book! Tarryn Fisher never disappoints! I love how all her books have insane twists. This one kept me guessing and the ending was wild! Highly recommend!

After loving The Wives, I was super excited to get an arc of Good Half Gone. And it started SO strong! It opens with twins Piper and Iris going to the movies with some guys they meet and Piper being kidnapped. I was immediately intrigued and the alternating timelines of when the kidnapping happened and present day made for a very quick pace.

Up until about 75%, I was interested and curious about where it was going. Then I encountered the plot twist. It was so insane and not in a mind blowing way. Just actually completely unbelievable and so far fetched that it ruined the entire thing for me. I struggled to rate it because for most of the book it felt like a 4 but the plot twist was a 1.

Overall, I do think the author is a good writer and she keeps the reader engaged. So I am rounding my 2.5 up to a 3.

Thank you Netgalley for the arc in exchange for my honest review.