The one obituary you never want to read – is your own.Laura Swallow is dead. A life cut tragically short, says the newspaper obituary.But that’s a lie. Estate agent Laura did not die in a car accident. She is alive and well.At first, Laura thinks it’s a sick joke. But multiple announcements of her death are followed by increasingly sinister real-life events. Already fragile, struggling to recover … events. Already fragile, struggling to recover from a recent divorce, Laura is plunged into a living nightmare.
Who can she trust? Her new lover? Her clients and work colleagues? What about her ex-husband and his smug fiancée? Can Laura even rely on her best friends? And why is it that Laura’s present troubles are so tied up with her sister’s sudden death all those years ago?
But one thing Laura is sure of – someone out there wants her to suffer. Wants her gone.
Forever.
What readers are saying about I Want You Gone:
‘WOW is all I have to say! I was hooked from the start! A real page turner!It’s the kind of things that can happen in real life, it’s scary!’ – Goodreads Reviewer, Five Stars
‘This book pulled me in from the moment I started reading it! I could not put it down. Definitely giving it 5 stars!! I will be recommending it to everyone that I know.’ – NetGalley Reviewer
‘A really gripping, involving story with moments that made me wince in horror at the things done to Laura, this introduces a major new talent in psychological thriller writing.’ – RachelReadIt.co.uk
‘The blurb of this caught my attention straight away so as soon as it landed on my kindle I jumped right in. I barely put my kindle down as I pretty much inhaled this in one sitting. It truly was that good.’ – CheekyPeeReadsAndReviews.com
‘Wow, what a read!’ – FeedTheCrime.Wordpress.com
‘I cannot believe how quickly this book pulled me in. I was just going to read the first chapter but simply could not put it down. The main character was well drawn and likeable. The plot moved quickly… Great weekend read.’ – FayesWordbasket.blogspot.com
‘This was a twisty and unsettling story which saw lead character, Laura Swallow, put through an emotional wringer…. add I Want You Gone to your reading list immediately.’ – GrabThisBook.net
‘Overall, a really excellent read that kept me gripped right to the end (literally)! I will be seeking out other books by this author!’ – PinkAndDizzy.com
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3.5 Stars
First it’s an obituary printed in the local newspaper. Then it appears on her facebook account. Her car is vandalized. She has a night out and doesn’t remember what happened. Her boss receives an email along with a ‘private’ picture attached.
Laura Swallow is alive and well. She has no idea who would be doing these things to do … or why. At first, Laura believes maybe she’s been mixed up with someone else with the same name…. but there are too many details to accept that.
Just getting divorced and hit with the knowledge that her ex is getting remarried and his fiancee is pregnant, her thought processes are already all over the place. What she’s experiencing now is a living nightmare.
There are lots of people in her lives …. a gentleman friend she has just met … a man she once attended school with and wasn’t very kind to him …. a new gal friend … who was actually her sister’s friend before she died ….. the lady who helped her get her job as a real estate agent … her ex-husband … his wife? …..
Who can she trust? Who would want her to suffer like this? Who wants to ruin her life? Someone definitely wants her gone.
This is a well-written psychological thriller that gave me the willies. It goes to show that in the modern world of computers and internet, all kinds of people can maneuver around and you’d never know it … until something strange happens. The characters are finely drawn and quite memorable. The suspense starts with the very first page and continues to the explosive, nail-biting finale.
Many thanks to the author / Inkubator Books / Netgalley for the digital copy of this psychological thriller. Read and reviewed voluntarily, opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.
so this one started off pretty strong and sucked me in pretty quickly and held my interest pretty much the whole time with all the twists and turns. At first you trust noone and not even the main character and start to think maybe she is just going crazy and noones out to get her.Laura wakes up one morning from a phone call from her daughter saying there was a fb post about her being pronounced dead and Laura shakes it off as some misunderatanding until more crazy things start to happen. Laura’s life quickly starts to fall apart after meeting her new boyfriend Ben and she coulnd’t help but think maybe he has something go do with it. So this story had lost of potential but there were some parts of the story that just weren’t believable and some of the characters weren’t very beleiveable and didn’t react to situations the way normal people would. Also the main character was so dense and oblivious to everything around her whole ignoring all the obvious signs and I didn’t find her to be very likable. I didn’t figure if out until the last few hours of the book and by then I had basically figured out the way it would end. It was every lifetime movie like but the story was interesting enough for me to finish but I feel like the ending could had been a bit better instead just kind of ending so abruptly. I did find the story itself to be a good one and enjoyed how the author kept the reader at the edge of their seat with all crazy things the main character was experiencing.
Excellent read! I was a little apprehensive in the beginning because it is written in British English. I had to look up a few terms, but not even close to being enough to spoil the book! I would highly suggest this one if you want a wonderful, thrill of a ride!
3.5 stars
This was a really great book for the most part. The heroine Laura is a little naive and desperately dramatic. If she would have slowed down with accusations some and just thought about it she would have realized a lot sooner who was behind it. I knew who it was about 1/2 way through but it was fun finding out the why. Will definitely be reading more by this author.
I received this arc from Netgalley for an honest review.
On its Amazon page, the logline for Miranda Rijks’s suspense novel says, “The one obituary you never want to read is your own.” Sure enough, the novel begins with Laura Swallow reading her own obituary in a local newspaper.
Thus the story begins with the hero’s problem. And the problem gets worse. As Rijks says in her description of the book, “multiple announcements of her death are followed by increasingly sinister real-life events.”
So Rijks had me hooked from the beginning. And I stayed hooked because the book is written in clear, simple prose.
And, it is an interesting problem. I really wanted to find out who wrote that fake obituary and staged those “increasingly sinister real-life events,” and why.