Gone Tonight

 

“Gone Tonight” by Sarah Pekkaren
Published by St. Martin’s Press
Finished 7/22/23 – 4/5 stars
 
All Ruth ever told her daughter, Catherine, of her past was that she left home as a teenager when pregnant with her, never contacting her family again.  But when Ruth starts showing signs of Alzhimers, Catherine decides now is the time to secretly dig into her mother’s past.  What she finds makes her wonder if she ever really knew her mother at all.  Sometimes it’s best to let the past lay burried in the past.
 
I really enjoyed this book and the way it was written in alternating points of view.  Many chapters would end wanting you to read “just one more chapter”.  You really won’t want to put it down, especially the second half.  The only issue I have is that one small part of the storyline is very similar to another book/movie.  One of the characters does call out the fact that they’d seen it in a movie before but as someone who has seen that movie a couple times, it felt very unoriginal.
 
This book comes out 8/1.  Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for gifting me with an advanced copy to read and provide an honest review.  I really enjoyed it.
 
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