This year after reading The Wives by Tarryn fisher she quickly rose to the top as one of my favorite authors. Good half gone is the story of a twin whose sister was taken from a movie theater right before her eyes. Iris will go to any length to find her sister Piper but what will it cost her? This is a good read but prepare for it to be a bit of a slow burn

Good Half Gone has a very intriguing plot and I was hooked at the start even though the plot felt scattered at times. I’d hoped that things would become more clear when the twists started getting revealed. While the resolution of the plot felt so incredibly unbelievable, I was still entertained and would say this book is worth a read if you can suspend your belief about certain plot points.

This book was okay. I was initially intrigued by the storyline, Iris’ twin goes missing and eight years later she begins an internship at Shoal Hospital: a private facility for the criminally insane in hopes to get some answers. This is where I thought Good Half Gone was going to suck me in and take me for a ride. Sadly for me the excitement ended there. I just could not get into it. I would get bored and put it down. It felt as though not much happened through the course of the book then I was at the end. The ending though had some twists and turns that I did enjoy and did not predict. Overall I give this book three stars.

Thank you to Harlequin Trade Publishing, Tarryn Fisher and NetGalley for sharing this digital reviewer copy with me in exchange for my honest thoughts.

This book was a roller coaster! Written past and present it does take a minute to get situated in some scenes, but overall good plot and delicious twists.
Iris search for answers about her sister kidnapping keeps you clued to your chair every page.
Topics
- PSTD
- Woman trafficking
- Psychological trauma

Many thanks, NetGalley, for the ARC in exchange for an honest review! I enjoyed this book - I usually always enjoy Tarryn Fisher's books. The concept of this book was really interesting to me. I loved the twin trope, the mystery that surrounded her twin's disappearance and the hospital for the criminally insane. I will recommend this to others. I was hooked the whole way through!

Captivating from start to finish this book was incredibly good. The character and plot development and execution was crazy good. I absolutely loved being able to be given the opportunity to read this book

Iris will find her twin. Piper was taken from her several years ago, the police effort was minimal. It took precious days for them to believe she wasn't just another runaway. Iris knows they, she has made it her mission to find out what happened to Piper at any cost. When pieces start to fall into place, a job at Shoal Island Hospital for the criminally insane, is the next step to the truth. Piper was her twin, the good half. Iris will risk her life to know.

This was a slow burn for the first two hundred pages. There was lots of building and fitting pieces together. The last fifty or so pages was all the action. Some extra information was included that was really necessary, but solid plot line. It fell kind of short though on the twists and turns. Thank you Netgalley for the advanced copy of this book.

Tarryn Fisher is one of my favorite. I recommend her books often to others. This specific book was not my favorite. To be fair, I know ARCs are unedited electronic copies, but this version was very "messy" and hard to tell where the chapters started and ended which matters because the timeline jumps. So my reading of it might have been influenced negatively by that and a hardcover, finished copy could have been a much more enjoyable read. That said...

Positives:
Strong, female main characters-I especially loved the character of the grandma
The premise of a missing twin, a sister who will stop at nothing to find out what happened, and the setting of an insane asylum on a remote island were all very intriguing

Negatives:
There was so many extra details added to this book that I did not feel were necessary or enhanced the plotline
SO many twists-and so many of them incredibly implausible and border-line ridiculous, including a spontaneous romance with the boss of the insane asylum she has dedicated and worked her entire life to get to work at.
A couple of the storylines were left hanging or just didn't matter to the novel's progression
Choppy and condusing (see note above)
I wish it had been more streamline focused on missing Piper and exactly what happened to her.

I will try Tarryn Fisher again, but this one was just not for me.

I loveddd this book. Could not put it down. Blown away by the twists and turns. I have always been a Tarryn Fisher fan and this book is up to par with the rest, 5 stars!!

Good Half Gone is a building climax that never really reaches its boiling point with an ending that is done often and leaves you dissatisfied and questioning what the purpose was of "the twist".

The book is about two sisters.
One of them gets kidnapped and never found again.
Our protagonist, Iris, makes it her mission to find her sister.
The beginning was very strong. Piper getting kidnapped and Iris unable to do something. No one really believes her when she seeks justice and answers. Her support is her grandma - a witty woman with a fierce character.

The whole book you try to figure out what happened to her sister; Piper.
It makes a decent read. It is atmospheric and tense. The protagonist is edgy which I presume is the Tarryn Fisher way.
Somewhere along the way she interns at Shoal Island Hospital, a hospital for the criminally insane and Iris hopes to get her answers and revenge there.

After that the story picks up side story after side story and it's really a decent read thus my 3-star rating, but it isn't great either.
I missed Tarryn's usual pace and the way she uses her words to break your heart, again and again.
I missed the cleverness and the twist that would have blown me away. I think this story could have been so much more, but it remained a decent thriller that you pick up and finish in two days and after that you probably never think about it again....

ARC received by Netgalley in exchange for an honest review

This is the first book I have read by this author and I really enjoyed it! I always love dual timelines, and Good Half Gone executed it perfectly. I did think some of the "twists" were predictable but there were others that were not. That being said the ending, was a little out there. Overall I thought this was a great book, and will be reading more books by Tarryn.

So thankful to have been given a chance to read this ARC.

This is absolutely my all time favorite book of this author. The story unfolds chapter after chapter and the ending will leave you speechless!

If you loved THE WIVES, add this to the top of your TBR immediately. Fisher has done it again, the emotions are high and all-encompassing, the tension is thick, and you're practically stuck on an island, but when things do flood over into Iris' real life, they effect not only her, but her family as well.

As I mentioned, emotion is high but not just one singular; you feel them A.L.L. Fear, anger, despair, love, craving. Through various challenges and moments, Iris is more than a character, she's a person and everything she experiences, the reader experiences, too.

I have been a fan of Tarryn Fisher for a long time. Good Half Gone may just be my favourite book of hers, ever.

Good Half Gone is the story of Iris. Years ago, Iris was out with her twin sister Piper when she was kidnapped right in front of her. From the very beginning, Iris was not believed by the cops. Iris and her grandmother's lives change quickly after the kidnapping. They both try to keep the case open, continue to investigate, and get hit by many challenges along the way. As an adult, Iris continues to investigate her sister's disappearance and eventually gets a job at a high-security hospital for the criminally insane - where she believes Piper's killer is imprisoned.

This book had lots of twists and great characters. It kept me interested and wanting to know what happens next.

I didn't love the ending, but since I enjoyed the book overall, it gets a strong 4 stars.

** Thank you NetGalley and Harlequin Trade Publishing for the ARC. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

When she was 15, Iris’s sister Piper was kidnapped. She tries to convince the police to do something, but sadly they don’t believe Iris. With no honest witnesses, and no cameras, the case grows cold. But Iris will never stop looking for her sister.
Told in the present, and in the past by Iris, this was a sad tale. Iris has managed to figure out what she believes happened to Piper. She has carefully planned to go to school and get an internship at Shoal Island Hospital (a place where the criminally insane are housed). She wants something from someone there,but who? A staff member or a patient perhaps. Only time will tell.
I loved everything about this story until the final twist. Somehow it just didn’t seem realistic and usually I can put that in inner voice aside and remind myself that it’s just fiction that I’m reading. Still overall I enjoyed Good Half Gone. 3.5 stars.

This wasn't my favorite of Fisher's novels. The premise seemed up my alley - it's set in a Victorian-era mental institution on a secluded island and focuses on a sister attempting to get justice for her kidnapped sibling. There's very little suspense, an unnecessary romantic entanglement, and I saw the (icky) twist coming from a mile away. Easy skip.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.

I am not normally one to fault a book for being unbelievable, but this was a tad much. There was SO much going on near the end, it all being over the top, it made it hard to accept the chain of events. The setting was unique and I loved it. Gran is a 10/10 person, she deserves the world.

I honestly have to say that I love Tarryn Fisher. This story centers around Iris, whose sister was taken in front of her eyes when they were 15 years old. We hear the story from the present and what Iris is doing to continue to avenge her sisters' fate and the past, what happened leading up to the kidnap of her sister, Piper.

I love the way that Tarryn Fisher paints in all of her books, but this was a great one for me. I enjoyed the story. I enjoyed the writing. I have to admit that I did guess the ending, which I do like to do, but I think that it was a little unbelievable. I would have given it 5 stars if it wasn't for that.

Thank you to NetGalley, Harlequin Trade Publishing, Graydon House and Tarryn Fisher for the eARC of Good Half Gone in exchange for an honest review. Publication date for Good Half Gone by Tarryn Fisher is set for 19 Mar 2024.

I’m a huge Tarryn Fisher fan so I was so excited to receive an ARC of her upcoming novel. Good Half Gone centers around Iris whose sister was taken when they were fifteen and explores the present day as she continues to look for answers. The chapters alternate from past to present which allows the suspense to grow as we learn more about Piper’s disappearance. There are a lot of little surprises throughout the novel and unpredictable twists that keep the reader wary of trusting anyone. I definitely would recommend!

Thank you to netgalley for an advanced copy of this book, in exchange for an honest review.

This was my first Tarryn Fisher book and it won’t be my last! The story takes us through the kidnapping of piper and its aftermath through the eyes of her sister Iris. Iris cannot let go what happened to Piper and wants revenge for her sisters killer.

The book flashes back and forth to when the girls were 15 and the kidnapping took place, and about 8 years later when Iris is working on an island where the criminally insane are being housed.
**spoiler alert below***
Overall I enjoyed how the story unfolded, however I thought that it was a little bit unbelievable that the killer (Jude) took over as Leo in the hospital and no one noticed. That was the only thing that annoyed me about this book. If it wasn’t for that, I would give it 5 stars. This was a solid 4 for me!