Told from multiple points of view, alternating between ‘then’ and ‘now’, I was enthralled as everything was revealed. Apologies for republishing this, but apparently some haters thought it would be funny to report my review and get it taken down because they have nothing better to do. How can we understand that our partner is an ideal candidate for providing mutual love or unconditional love?

It is hard to read the despair and feelings of inadequacies that the family members encounter and at one point it was a little hard for me to continue.

As soon as their relationship become serious and she forms true bounding with Poppy, she surprisingly finds out the birth mother Noelle of Poppy who left her is the same woman who has tutored her daughter Ellie. Upon finishing one chapter it was easy to read the next and then just one more chapter and before I knew it I was finished! All of these devices serve to build palpable tension, but the structure also contributes to how deeply disturbing the story becomes. Even now, after finishing, there are still some questions I have floating around in my head about the events of the novel and the outcome. If a person who beholds the concept of unconditional love falls in love with a Narcissist, then the first person's life will be totally destroyed.

Laurel usually doesn't take chances, but after the last clue in Ellie's case was discovered, Laurel is ready to put her life back on track. But it's fiction and it's part of a story and that's why it worked -- the writing supports it and carries you off into a world you cannot leave. But the author's writing skills, narrative style, and the way Ellie was crafted will compensate for it easily.If you've been active in the book community at all this month then you're sure to have noticed that Then She Was Gone is an April Pick by Book Of The Month, so naturally this is one that's being hyped for a reason-it's just that good! A volcanic eruption is quite another, for, as the journalist who does a framing voice-over narration for Brooks’ latest puts it, when Mount Rainier popped its cork, “it was the psychological aspect, the hyperbole-fueled hysteria that had ended up killing the most people.