~*Good as Gone by Amy Gentry*~

Have you ever read a book that you thought was good but, you didn't enjoy? That is how I felt about "Good as Gone". Last year I read a few books about girls that had been kidnapped and return home. Some were good and some were just okay. This book was good but, I didn't care for the way this was written. There was something about the characters and the whole feel of the novel that was off-putting. 

I don't think I would call it a suspense novel though. I think of it more as a character study. Thirteen year old Julie disappears in the middle of the night, taken by a bearded man and the only witness to the kidnapping is her younger sister Jane. Eight years later on the same day that Jane comes home from college for a visit there is a knock on the door and there stands Julie. The girl's mother Anna has her doubts though, is this her sweet daughter or an opportunist? Anna also has had a hard time forgiving her youngest daughter for not coming to alert her parents that her sister had been taken. The already crumbling family begins to fall apart even more with the arrival of Julie. I did want to like this more than I did but, it is still worth a read for most people despite my review I do not regret reading it. I think I just had higher hopes.