Book Review - GONE

By Lisa McMann

Published by Simon and Schuster

To be released February 9th 2010

224 pages

Source: from Simon and Schuster

5 stars

OPEN YOUR EYES
Janie thought she knew what her future held. And she thought she'd made her peace with it. But she can't handle dragging Cabel down with her.

She knows he will stay with her, despite what she sees in his dreams. He's amazing. And she's a train wreck. Janie sees only one way to give him the life he deserves--she has to disappear. And it's going to kill them both.

Then a stranger enters her life--and everything unravels. The future Janie once faced now has an ominous twist, and her choices are more dire than she'd ever thought possible. She alone must decide between the lesser of two evils. And time is running out...

He reaches toward her, his fingers black and bloody, his eyes deranged, unblinking. Janie is paralyzed. His cold hands reach around her neck, squeezing tight, tighter, until Janie has no breath left. She's unable to move, unable to think. As his grasp tightens further around Janie's neck, his face turns sickly alabaster. He strains harder and begins to shake.

Janie is dying.
She has no fight left in her.
It's over.

I can't believe I didn't have this posted, my apologies. Life was been totally insane this past month and now that I feel it's starting to become normal again, I realize that there's a few important things I've not got done, and my review of GONE is one of them.

I read GONE the day I got the ARC! I enjoyed it so much. Here's my *spoiler free* review. When it gets closer to the release date, I'll write a more in-depth review. Believe me, this book had me going "aw" at the end, as I felt that the trilogy couldn't have been wrapped up more perfectly.

My over all thoughts are I loved it! I think Lisa did a great job with they way the series finished off. And no, that's not giving anything away. All I can say is that those who loved Wake and Fade need to pre-order it now.

GONE is about Janie's journey into figuring out more of who she is as a Dream Catcher and finding more out about herself. She learns about how she inherited her abilities as she finds out more about the man who's dreams she keeps getting sucked into, as he's sitting in a chair *hence the cover of the book* in a room. These dreams are the worst ones she's been sucked into yet. She's the only one who can help him, and though she doesn't know who he is yet, he certainly knows who she is.

Cabe's dreams are becoming more and more frightening and too much for Janie, as they're his fears of what will happen to Janie. His love for her is fierce and never wavering. Janie feels that she's causing him so much pain and she doesn't want to put him through any more pain nor does she want him taking care of her when she's blind and crippled. As she tries to figure out what she should do, Cabe's firm love for Janie becomes stronger than ever as he supports her on her journey of finding herself. What's not to love about Cabe!?!

Captain is the mother figure they both need and I just LOVE her character! She's there for both Janie and Cabel as they go through the difficult times that lie ahead from them in GONE, but be assured the ending is simply perfect for the WAKE trilogy.