Gone by Lisa McMann

My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I was super lucky to get ARC copy of this book to read. I've been waiting for months just like the rest of Lisa's fans, patiently. I got the chance to meet her, in one of the readings of her tour. Amazing treat.

Here are my thought about this book. From all 3 books on the trilogy Wake has to be favorite, the plot was really outstanding. Keeps unfolding until it chokes you, and you can't breath until you figure out the puzzle.
But Gone was different. Gone is the story of Janie's final decision. She has two choices with her gift. Reclusion and safety. Or Social life by the hand of becoming a cripple taken over by blindness. This book is not solving a crime, getting the crooks to come clean, or being the narc she was on Wake. This book is about growing. The narrative felt different, more adult, even the tone in some cases sounded more like a grown up Janie. She deals with her mom's alcoholism issues, a new found character that lays on a bed, but has so much in common with her, DNA being biggest one, that makes it hard not to relate to her pain, and her struggle. What can you say to someone that meets her dying father, after 18 years of knowing nothing about him, to find out that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Not far at all.

Janie decides. Takes the biggest decision of her life when everything she's known collapses under her feet, learning a new truth. What is that? You are going to have to pick this book to find out!! I'm not giving anything out.

Even thought this book is the perfect closure to the trilogy, and doesn't leave you hanging at all...as a reader, I was hoping for more. I love Lisa's writing, I'm a HUGE Fan. I guess I wanted more from the plot to self discovery, feel like I was  part of it, finding new things about her relationship with Cabe, her own self rightness, her father, her relationship with the captain, and her mother's struggles. Instead I found myself detach from time to time, like Janie was trying to get away from me too, but maybe is all set on the readers perception, maybe that's something that only happened to me while reading and not others.

Still the Dream Catcher series, is definitely a must read. I think the book is great and fans of the series will be enjoying this read. Gone will be released on February 9th 2010. Enjoy!! View all my reviews >>

From a design perspective, I love the simple take on this books. I was a big taken by surprise, when the first 2 books were on the blue color pallete, and this one was Green. Still I think the Gone refers not to Janie directly but her father being gone from her life... So the different take on the book colors make sense. I guess I'm one of the only people that has those kind of questions in mind right? Maybe?

Cheers. My friends. Later gators.