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One Year Gone by Avery Bishop


In One Year Gone by Avery Bishop, Jessica Moore’s teenage daughter Bronwyn (Wyn to her friends) goes missing shortly after a pep rally at her high school. Jessica is living every mothers worst nightmare and does not believe her daughter ran away from home, which is the conclusion local police have arrived at. When, a year after her disappearance, Jessica’s cell phone goes off in the middle of the night, she never expects it to be a series of text messages from Wyn, but that is exactly what she sees on her screen. Her daughter is reaching out after all this time and lets her mom know she has been abducted and needs help. Jessica launches into action and this time she won't let anyone get in the way of her finding her daughter.


This story is told in alternating timelines and from both Jessica and Wyn’s points of view. I did like the changes between present day and the past, as well as the perspectives of both mother and daughter taking center stage. I thought Avery Bishop wrote her character's dialogue particularly well. The switches between now and then and Jessica and Wyn were well paced and as the book progressed towards its conclusion I found the ramping up of these perspective changes suited to the more frantic pace of the story. 


What I did not care for in this story was the ending. Mysteries with a twist ending are often great, especially when they are truly unexpected but also believable after you think over what you had previously read and see the connections and clues you missed. I found the ending to One Year Gone to be a bridge too far. I just could not get there or find it the least bit believable in the end, and that brought this book down to a three star read for me. 


*** One Year Gone by Avery Bishop will be released on August 10, 2021. I received an ARC from NetGalley and Lake Union Publishing in exchange for my honest review.

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