This month we are reviewing the book He’s Gone by Deb Caletti
He’s Gone by Deb Caletti
The Sunday morning starts like any other, aside from the slight hangover. Dani Keller wakes up on her Seattle houseboat, a headache building behind her eyes from the wine she drank at a party the night before. But on this particular Sunday morning, she’s surprised to see that her husband, Ian, is not home. As the hours pass, Dani fills her day with small things. But still, Ian does not return. Irritation shifts to worry, worry slides almost imperceptibly into panic. And then, like a relentless blackness, the terrible realization hits Dani: He’s gone.
As the police work methodically through all the logical explanations – he’s hurt, he’s run off, he’s been killed – Dani searches frantically for a clue as to whether Ian is in fact dead or alive. And, slowly, she unpacks their relationship, holding each moment up to the light: from its intense, adulterous beginning, to the grandeur of their new love, to the difficulties of forever. She examines all the sins she can – and cannot – remember. As the days pass, Dani will plumb the depths of her conscience, turning over and revealing the darkest of her secrets in order to discover the hard truth – about herself, her husband, and their lives together.
Reviews
“I found this book to be very emotional. I connected and identified with Dani from the very beginning. I wasn’t expecting such a page turner. Probably because I could not figure out how it was going to end. Just when I thought I did, something happened to steer it in another direction. It’s one of those books that stays in your mind long after you put it down, so you can’t wait to get back into it again to find out what actually happened. It was eloquently written and thought provoking.” – Review by Susie
“This book started with a really great idea and in general had a good storyline but I found the main character, Dani, a bit frustrating. I kept wishing I could shake some sense into her. I didn’t like that she spends a lot of time either feeling sorry for herself or making excuses for the people that are treating her poorly. I wasn’t sure if she really missed him or if she was more concerned about how his disappearance reflected on her. I finished it because I wanted to know how it would end, but it turned out I had predicted it correctly in the first chapter. A good read but I just wasn’t a fan of the character.” – Review by Kelly
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