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Gone by Lisa McMann

Gone

by Lisa McMann

Release Date: February 9, 2010
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Age Group: Young Adult
Pages: 214
Source: Publisher
Interest: Series
Challenge: None
Other Titles in the Series: Wake & Fade

Janie thought she knew what her future held. And she thought she’d made her peace with it. But she can’t handle dragging Cabel down with her.

She knows he will stay with her, despite what she sees in his dreams. He’s amazing. And she’s a train wreck. Janie sees only one way to give him the life he deserves: She has to disappear. And it’s going to kill them both.

Then a stranger enters her life — and everything unravels. The future Janie once faced now has an ominous twist, and her choices are more dire than she’d ever thought possible. She alone must decide between the lesser of two evils. And time is running out...
I'm a big fan of this series. I'd never read an author that has quite the writing style as Lisa McMann. The first time I read Wake, I seriously thought... "wow can you really write a book like that?" McMann's writing is raw, it's sporadic, but at the same time it's intensely vivid... even though she doesn't use that many words to depcit her scenes. Don't ask me how it works, it just does. But on to Gone.

Gone is the last book in the series, and I have to admit I was a little disappointed. There was something missing... it just didn't have that edge that the first two books had. It was more of a personal quest, instead of an external one, as it had been in the previous two novels. This was more about the aftermath, what Janie has to deal with when the party is over.

Gone tackled a lot of serious issues. I appreciated McMann addressing Janie's family life, showing that a teen coping with an alcoholic parent doesn't have to feel or deal alone.

I was satisfied with the ending. McMann wrapped it up nicely left a few loose ends, but she didn't need to spell everything out for us... it was poignant.

Overall, this is a great series, I absolutely recommend it as a whole.