Review "Here and Gone" by Haylen Beck

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        Welcome Back! You Miss ME? I Miss YOU! Alright, enough with the mussy stuff. Here we have an author I have never heard of, which is always exciting. It's like meeting a new friend. When I was researching this book, I read that "Haylen Beck" is not his real name it's Stuart Neville! Then I researched him and found out he was a known author from Northern Ireland, also here in the U.S.. He has won awards for his best known book The Ghosts of Belfast (American Edition of The Twelve), has a total of 8 Novels out, including Here and Gone. He seems to be doing well for his career! Congratulation!! Now why did he use a pen name for his recent book? Who knows and who cares! As long as he can make a great book, which he did, it shouldn't matter if he's using a pen name! Let me tell you what Here and Gone is about.

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        It deals with a mother, Audra, who escapes from an abusive husbad and tries to start fresh with her 2 children, Sean and Louise. While she drives from New York to California, she's stopped by an Arizona Sheriff in the middle of the desert. While he searches thru their belongings, he finds a bag of drugs, which she has never seen in her trunk. Thinking the worst has come, she didn't know it's just the beginning.

        Let's talk about the PROS & CONS

PROS

• Great story line
• Love Sean & Danny (characters)
• Suspenseful
• Thriller
• Point of View from Mother, both kids and Danny

CONS

• Predictable
• Won't read twice

        Their wasn't much dislike, which is great! If I could give this book a 3.5 stars on Goodreads I would, but sadly it doesn't. So I gave 3 stars. I enjoyed every word in the book. Its a good starter for new thriller readers. I was able to read this book in 3 days and for me that's fast! Is it worth the buy? For me personally, NO. Why? Because $15-$20 is not my range in buying a book. I usually get my books from Dollar Stores or The Salvation Army store or the Public Library (which I have not done in YEARS!). I'm even gotten books as gifts. But since this book is a NEW and only been out since June 20, 2017, YES, it's not a bad price for a new book and theirs other books out their that are way more expensive.

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3. Books-A-Million
4. Powell's
5. Target

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Review: "The Roanoke Girls" by Amy Engel

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       Ever had a book that you just couldn't put down because it's too good? Well...I just  found one and this book is amazing I could NOT put it down for the life of me. Right off the back, it's not for everyone, it may disturb some people. 17/18 years old looks like the right age to read this book. Let's continue. This book is enticing, mysterious, it had you thinking at times, it also made me feel sad, angry, shocked and relief. First off, when I read the title, I thought it was going to be about the Roanoke Colony a.k.a. The Lost Colony. Oh how happy I was wrong. Let's talk about the cover of this book. It has black and white photos in picture frames made out of wood, all girls except for the farmhouse in the middle. Usually when I see black and white photos I think of the dark side; like bad experience or horrible life, excreta.

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      This is Amy's first Adult Novel and I give 5 stars here and on Goodreads! It's an incredible read. You will not be disappointed. I love the little things she had put into it, like her book cover and some writings her character has done. What you see is "carved" words onto any kind of woods in the house. It's a different kind of format from the rest of the book.

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      The story is about Lane Roanoke, 15 years old, lost her mother and she was left alone. So she thought, little did she know she has family from her mother's side. She knew nothing of them and now she's been shipped to Osage Flats, Kansas in the summer time and picked up by the families handy man, Charlie. Takes her to Roanoke Farmhouse, meets the family; Gran (Lillian), Granddad (Yates), Allegra (cousin), Sharon (maid/cook; horrible cook). Later that summer Lane will know the disturbing/dark secret of the family and will leave, away from Roanoke. Only to come back, 11 years later because Allegra has gone missing! She wasn't sure what to think, did she run as well? I won't say more, but I will show you the first sentence.

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      The sentence alone brought you in. You want to know WHY, why would she do that to her kid. Of course, you will find out later on in the book. There's a quote in the book "Roanoke girls never last long around here. In the end, we either run or we die." (page 12) That quote made me think a lot, now why would Allegra say that. Was she just telling Lane scary stories or was their a deeper meaning to it?
      This book definitely had me hooked and it is a well written story. I'm very glad I picked this book over the other options I had. Now if all books can get me just as interested in the story as I did with this I would be set for life. I also love the fact that when someone packed my book for delivery it says how handled my package...SHOUTOUT to D. Hann for taking sure care of the package and the mail man for not destroying my package and the hard work D. Hann had did. Thank-you!

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