Lisa McMann

Things should be great for Janie—she has graduated from high school and is spending her summer with Cabel, the guy she’s totally in love with. But deep down she’s panicking about how she’s going to survive her future when getting sucked into other people’s dreams is really starting to take its toll. Things get even more complicated when she meets her father for the very first time—and he’s in a coma. As Janie uncovers his secret past, she begins to realize that the choice thought she had has more dire consequences than she ever imagined.

Gone

Briar's Reviews

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           I initially loved this series, but when I got to this book I found myself severely bored with everything going on. I love Janie and Cabe, but most of the novel I had no clue what was going on and I didn't understand why things happened and the background to why they happened.

Janie learning about her father was a wonderful plot twist, but she barely interacts with him or anything involving his life. It felt as if he was just thrown in for a plot twist and not used to the full potential. 

There was no action, adventure or romance in this novel that made me feel like I should continue reading the book. Overall, it felt like a cheap final book in the series. I had high hopes for the book finale, and I was sadly let down.

I did love the first two books in the series and I hope Lisa continues to write books as good as the first two. This book was a let down for me.

I especially did not understand Janie getting handed an envelope near the end. I have so many questions about this book that were left unanswered, and without another book in the series, it's very disappointing.

Manda

In Gone, we meet for the final time with Janie, main character from Lisa Mcmann's Wake Trilogy. Like in the first two novels, Janie continues to find herself pulled into other people's dreams. She has to finally make a decision, stay with Cabel and meet her fate head on, or isolate herself and escape from her gift. Things take an interesting turn, when a stranger enters Janie's life, and she learns that things aren't as simple as she thought. She must decide between two lives that both have unsatisfactory futures and she must decide soon.

I read this whole trilogy and I feel in love with it from the beginning. The ideas in the Wake series are new and exciting, and I have never read anything quite like them. Gone is just as great as the rest of the series, and I think Lisa McMann ended the story well. I did not feel like there were tons of loose ends to be tied up and I felt a closure that you don't get with many trilogies. The pain and struggles that McMann presented with Janie and her gift were very well written and realistic. I also enjoyed the fact that Janie had more going on in her life than just her gifts and she was a real girl going through real life things. This trilogy as a whole is amazing and Gone definitely did not disappoint. You will find a quick and easy read with these books, but a story that is deep and breathtaking. I feel that making these books any longer than they were would have just drawn out the story and not have made it what it was. I highly recommend these books and I know almost all audiences will enjoy them. 

Review originally posted on my blog Draw A Blank

Disclosure of Material Connection: I got this book from my local public library! I can say whatever I want. :)

Talia Dominguez 

wow! I can not believe i finished this trilogy in less than a month!!! I really am content with this series in how it turned out! I also liked the ending how the author did not concluded with "a happily ever after" note nor a "I hate my life" note ! I like to think that janie will survive and she will end up liking the decision she made!

Izza

I think this was my favorite out of the three..

Barbara Rosas

I love this book.
One of the best ends ever.

Lisa Gardner

When his partner and lover, Rainie Conner, vanishes during her investigation into the case of a missing foster child, private detective Pierce Quincy enlists the aid of his daughter Kimberly, a rookie FBI agent, to uncover the truth.

Megan Leprich

Another great Lisa Gardner novel, I swear this woman can never write anything bad. I have loved every book written by her and I loved this one as well. I love that it focuses more on Quincy this time and I love the relationship between Quincy and Rainie. Great great book!

Jessica 

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Oh, I so wanted this one to work out for me. Lisa McMann really hit her stride with Fade and I had such high hopes for Gone. Yet, once again, I'm left feeling drastically underwhelmed and maybe even a little bit lost. Because, to be perfectly honest with you guys I felt like very little happened in Gone; and mostly all of it is listed, or alluded to, in the synopsis alone.

Gone is, of course, the conclusion to the Wake trilogy. Yet, nothing about it screamed 'conclusion'. It felt half-written and painfully so. While the intrigue and mystery is there, there's still that massive gap in the world-building and even, to a degree, some of the character development. McMann, however, makes up for some of the lesser qualities of Gone by dishing up some solidly emotional moments and her signature snark.

Which is just... blah. You know something isn't your cup of tea when it had so few traits I'd deem as its saving grace. Throughout the entirety of Gone, I felt myself asking so many questions and not receiving much in terms of answers. Much like with Wake, we're thrust into something with very little to build off of and it gets confusing. The context gets muddled and, to be blunt, the story never really comes into focus.

Here's what I know: Janie's father makes his first, and only, appearance. And he is basically dead, so it's not as though there are many compelling moments between the two. Gone could have been so much more, had we seen more pieces put together when it comes to the powers and connections made throughout the series.

Although there's a lot of gaps in this conclusion, McMann captures the mixed bag of emotions that Janie slips into beautifully. Grief, resentment, fear, love, hope and defeat, are just me scraping the surface when it comes to what emotions can be found within Gone. Overall, this installment felt intensely underdeveloped and so open-ended, it made me feel as though it wasn't meant to be merely a trilogy.