You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone

Great storyline! Very different suspense book then I've read in awhile.Lots of twists .Starting from the first page you keep thinking you know who is doing the killings but the author sets up the book so you keep questioning who is the killer?! Great book. Very different!

Great read! Highly recommend!

Oh My God!

Get your popcorn ready and be prepared to say ‘Oh my God!’ every couple of chapters or so. The twist and turns in You’ll Miss Me When I’m Gone are simply relentless – and the body count is high.

I’ll tell you that the book’s description gives absolutely no clue of what you’re about to experience as O’Brien starts pounding the suspense, terror, and heartbreak in this incredibly fast-paced book.

Sure, at times you’ll find yourself shaking your head in disbelief - it is outrageous – and you’ll likely find that you figured out the ‘who’ before the big reveal. But it doesn’t matter. You’ll want to read this until you finally get to the end. Then you’ll take a deep breath and realize that you ate the entire bowl of popcorn without realizing it.

So much fun!

This is the story of one young man, Spencer, who was coerced into committing a horrendous act as a child. He has paid his debt to society and is trying to start fresh. People don't want to see Spencer as he is now, they only see the acts he committed as an 11 year old and are quick to blame him for current events.

This also the story about devastating effects bullying have on another young teen, Damon. How a person who has problems to begin with and is mercilessly bullied can reach the breaking point with devastating consequences. There were a lot of characters in this book that you couldn't help disliking, but they didn't deserve what happened to them. I did guess part of what what was going on but still couldn't put the book down. This is a great read, despite the fact I could anticipate some of the events. I would highly recommend this book for a great suspense read. Think you to net galley for an advanced readers copy for a fair and honest review.

You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone is another excellent thriller written by author Kevin O'Brien. He is an absolute master in this genre. Thanks to NetGalley and Kensington/Pinnacle for the advance copy.

A special thank you to Kensington and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Kevin O’Brien returns following No One Needs to Know (2015) with YOU'LL MISS ME WHEN I'M GONE another complex multi-layered mystery, with a highly-charged topic of bullying combined with family secrets, and now murder—keeping readers glued to the pages of this gripping thriller, to the final ending.

Andrea Boyle, age thirty-six years old, (she looked much younger)-- moved from Washington, DC with her seventeen-year-old nephew Spencer. Andrea, was a copywriter, and polished manuscripts for authors before they sent their work off to publishers—from textbooks to thrillers. She could work from anywhere, and met Luke at a party of her one and only Seattle client, a true crime writer.

She had relocated with the hope that she and Spencer could start fresh, where no one knew them. Andrea had her nephew's last name legally changed. He was now Spencer Murray. Everyone thought he was her younger brother. She told people his parents died in an automobile accident when he was eleven and she had been taking care of him since.

No one in Seattle knew the real story, including her dear handsome Luke. She needed to tell him the truth. Would he forgive her? She had been dating him for four months. She and Spencer had moved in with Luke three weeks earlier.

Playwright Luke and Andrea are a couple attempting to start a new life together. Luke has a troubled son named Damon and a soon-to-be-ex-wife who is inappropriately obsessive about Luke, their son, and, increasingly, Andrea. When Luke and Andrea decide to move in together, kids in tow, things get unexpectedly complicated. Damon is bullied at school, with Spencer as witness, and in the aftermath of a bullied teen’s suicide, some of the bullies start to die.

Damon, was his son and spent alternate weekends with them. Damon had a bit of OCD and washed his hands about forty times a day. Damon and Spencer both had been harassed by a few bullies. Evelyn was the ex-wife.

When Damon recorded his own murder suicide on a podcast and outed all of the students and teachers that bullied him- strange things began happening. The people he named started turning up dead. Not only did it seem that someone was murdering these people for his benefit but whoever was behind it seemed determined to frame Spencer in the process. Damon was saying he would be more famous than his dad and his plays.

When Spencer’s dark secret is exposed and Luke learns the truth-- things get complicated. What happened when Spencer was eleven? Who is out to get him now? What is his dark secrets?

Andrea has to prove her nephew’s innocence. Does she believe in his innocence? Who is killing all the bullies? Is Spencer innocent or guilty? Everyone close to him is in danger. What if Damon is not really dead?

A fast-paced complex suspense thriller, with loads of characters, and most, not too nice. Have read many books by O’Brien over the years, and he never disappoints! Pack this one for your summer beach reading! Entertaining.