A mom disappears while out on hike by herself, and so begins the is she, or isn't she dead? Has she started a new life? Is her daughter seeing visions? There are just too many plot twists/red herrings that make this more of an exhausting read, and towards the end you feel like if she is alive, then she sure is a selfish woman who created chaos and disasters for those she left behind. I hoped the whole time she would be dead because orchestrating her disappearance would have been too cruel to her family. Ending won't be shared...

Fans of Gone Girl and Girl on a Train will love this great suspenseful read that leaves you guessing until the very end. Billie Flanagan went for a hike a year ago and never came back which tore her family apart. As her husband and daughter try and rebuild their shattered lives by having Billie declared dead they soon discover that they may not have ever really known Billie / Mom at all.

Thank You to Spiegel & Grau for proving me with an advance copy of Janelle Brown's novel, Watch Me Disappear, in exchange for an honest review.

PLOT- Jonathan's wife, Billie, disappeared on a hiking trip nearly a year ago. Her body was never recovered and he is now going through courts to have her death certificate issued, so that he can file an insurance claim. He's running through his savings and falling behind in bills; money is an enormous stress. He'd love to drowned his troubles in alcohol, but he must pull it together for Olive, his teenage daughter. Olive's grief has started manifesting itself in visions, where she believes that she's not only seeing her mother, but that her mother is still alive and needing her help. Jonathan discovers information about Billie's past that leads him to believe that she might not be the person that he thought he had married, and that perhaps, she really is still alive.

LIKE- I'm a fan of Janelle Brown's writing and I was happy to be approved for her latest novel. I admire Brown's ability to write emotionally rich scenarios and compelling characters. Watch Me Disappear has quite a few plot twists and reads like a mystery, but at its core, it's character driven. 

I felt most connected to Jonathan, who has the weight of the world on his shoulders and is really struggling to keep his life together. He's not a perfect parent (who is?), but he sincerely tries to make Olive's life better and the two have a beautiful connection. Watch Me Disappear is told primarily in close third-person that alternatively focuses on Jonathan, Billie, and Olive. However, there is a story device in which Jonathan and Billie's relationship is remembered in first person, through a memoir that Jonathan is writing. I'm not sure that the memoir entries added much to the story. I felt that they slowed the pace. However, they also drew me closer to Jonathan, as I was able to hear his direct voice. I was more interested in Jonathan and Olive's reaction to their predicament, than I was about the character of Billie. 

DISLIKE- There was a confusing element early in the story when I thought that Watch Me Disappear might turn into a fantasy novel. It was the combination of Billie giving Olive books about telepathic kids and then having Olive experience her visions. I spent the first half of the novel expecting it to go an entirely different direction. 

I really disliked the character of Harmony. Harmony is a long-time friend of Billie. She has the hots for Jonathan and now that her friend is dead, she is making her move on him. The scenario of a woman coming on to a grieving widow is bad enough, but the storyline with Harmony with regard to Billie's mysterious past, becomes a muddled mess at the end of the story. I didn't so much dislike the ending, but it was a onslaught of information and characters creating an overly complicated explanation.

RECOMMEND- Maybe. I didn't absolutely love Watch Me Disappear, but I enjoyed it. It's a fast read with unexpected twists; a solid blend of mystery and family drama. I like Brown's writing and I'd recommend her other novels.

It’s been a year since Sybilla “Billie” Flanagan disappeared while on a solo hiking trip. Missing and presumed dead, her grieving husband and teenage daughter have been left to pick up the shattered pieces of their lives. Then one day at school, Billie’s daughter has a vision: her mother is alive, somewhere out there, and needs Olive to come find her. Jonathan, Billie’s husband, initially dismisses the idea that Billie is still alive. After all, he has just recently been able to accept the fact of her death. But then a chance encounter with one of Billie’s friends reveals that his wife has been keeping secrets from him for years. The deeper he digs into his wife’s mysterious past, the more uncertain he becomes about the woman he married, and whether she did actually perish a year ago.

This is a tight, subtle thriller. We know Billie, former wild child turned Berkeley super mom by the holes she left in the lives of those around her. While Olive and Jonathan work in their own ways to find out what happened to Billie, we see her surface persona slowly scraped away, and something different and darker start to show through underneath. Every revelation about who Billie was adds more mystery, rather than less, to her ultimate fate. Through the course of the book, you find yourself very smugly sure that so-and-so knows what happened to Billie, only to have that assumption ripped away a few chapters later, and your focus moved on to a new suspect.

Fans of mysteries and thrillers will probably enjoy this book. The story has several elements in common with Gone Girl. If you’ve enjoyed books in that vein, this is a good pick for you.

An advance copy of this book was provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I will be posting my review on Goodreads on June 14, 2017.

This was a fascinating book that follows the story of Billie, a beautiful supermom living in Berkeley, who disappears into thin air while hiking one Autumn day. She leaves behind a loving husband and teenage daughter who are suffering because of their loss. The book kept you guessing for a long time about who Billie or Sybilla really is and what really happened to her that day since she went missing. Is she really dead or she is held captive somewhere, or worse did she just run off and leave her family behind?The writing was crisp and the author made it look easy to write from the point of view of a man, a woman, and a teenage girl. I found the story believable due to the author's excellent writing though the story was highly not likely to happen in reality. Aside from the unique storyline and fleshed out characters, the Mom and daughter were both fans of Lois Duncan. Aaack.. I loved Lois Duncan books as a pre teen in the 1979:).. Kudos on a fantastic book-I highly recommend.

I really loved this book. At first it seemed a little slow to get going, but then boom! It took off. The writing was superb and kept me wanting more for the entire time I was reading and got better as the story progressed. I kept trying to figure out what happened to Billie, but just when I thought I knew, the story made me think twice. The last chapter before the Epilogue had me feeling like there was something missing, it wasn't the great ending I was expecting, but then I read the Epilogue and OMG! That was what I am talking about. Now, i am just hoping that there will be a second book so that this story can continue because it is clearly not finished. Please please please let there be a second book. Thank you, that is all :)

I really enjoyed this book. It was slow to start but really peaked my interest. I loved the character driven narrative and only wished for more closure for Jonathan. I felt like Jonathan's story line peaked and then speed up to close up the story line. I loved the epilogue so the reader was not left hanging.

Watch Me Disappear was the best book I've read this summer. Twisting, turning, intriguing... you have no idea where it's going to end up, and that's hard to find in a book now. Loved every second of reading it and can't wait for more.

Well looks like I found a new author to stalk this year. First of all thank you for allowing me to read this early, I am honored. Excuse me tho while I "GOOGLE" the author and purchase her other books.

So diving into this one, I could tell from the first mysterious chapter that Billie was going to be one complicated woman. I was right.

What I am finding lately in regards to the mystery/thriller/suspense genre is missing girls or missing women. No matter what happens between Page 1 and the last page, we aren't focusing so much on what each author is trying to tell us. There are hints and clues missed because ultimately we just want to find out what has happened.

This is not that kind of story.

This book quickly sets into a year after Billie has gone missing and focuses on her husband, Jonathan and their daughter, Olive. We do see some grieving still, but it really has a small and well-written supernatural element when Olive questions if she's psychic and seeing Billie. This isn't over the top or a huge buzzkill for me. In fact, I really liked it.

Told between alternate chapters of Olive's life and her journey with trying to find her mother as well as her life as a high school student and a memoir Jonathan is writing about his life with the woman who is presumed dead and never to be seen again, this really kept me on my toes. There wasn't huge cliffhanger endings in the chapters, there weren't constant dead-end clues. There were just two really fantastic characters looking to find their lost loved one and finally get some answers.

As a domestic thriller/fiction novel, I was kind of glad there wasn't a ton of suspense or thriller elements to this one as it was really nice to focus on the two characters and what they are experiencing. Don't get me wrong, Billie is still a huge element to this book but Jonathan and Olive are the ones we really get to take this journey with.

I won't lie, at times during this one I felt like I was given more information than I needed to know and thought this might be some filler pages to get to where we were meant to be with this one. I was wrong. Everything is wrapped up with a neat little bow at the end of this one and the very last page made my jaw drop.

This is definitely a great summer read and it reminded me somewhat of "When She Was Gone" by Gwendolen Gross. I actually would recommend both reads.

I had trouble connecting with the characters in this book. A woman goes on a solo hike on the Pacific Crest Trail and never comes home. Only her boot is found. Her husband and 16 year old daughter are left to cope as best they can. A year passes. The daughter begins “seeing” her mother in some sort of hallucination/waking dream. The husband begins to discover his wife was telling him lies. No one seems to know who the “real” Billie Flanagan was. The whole premise of the book is how much do we really know those we love.

The writing was decent and there wasn't anything fundamentally wrong with this book. It just never truly grabbed me, although the second half of the book, as the husband begins to investigate Billy’s past, is much more interesting than the first half.

My thanks to netgalley and Random House for an advance copy of this book.

Need a vacation read this summer? Here it is...one day, Billie, wife to Jonathan and mother to Olive, heads out for a hike and does not return. A year later, Jonathan has quit his job to write a memoir of their life, struggling to make ends meet while he fights to obtain a death certificate, never having found a body. Yep, he needs the insurance money to make a few payments. Meanwhile, Olive is having visions of her mother desperate for help, leaving breadcrumbs of clues about her secretive past. We see the husband's struggles as he investigates their finances and the burgeoning relationship with his wife's best friend, as well as Olive's high school issues and her dawning awareness of her own sexual identity. As author Janelle Brown slowly reveals Billie's life, we see the clues that Jonathan needs to follow to find the truth. Admittedly, this began a bit slowly for me; it took me until about 50 pages to really get pulled into the story. Then it was a rockin' ride until the end, with some intriguing twists and turns and a few 'ah-ha' moments. Don't put this book down; the ending will satisfy and amaze you.

4 out of 5 stars to [book:Watch Me Disappear|32740062], a new mystery and suspense thriller, set to be published on July 11, 2017 and written by [author:Janelle Brown|970639]. Many thanks to the author, NetGalley, Random House and Spiegel & Grau for this Advanced Reader Copy (ARC) in exchange for a fair an honest review.

<b><i><u>Why This Book</u></i></b>
I saw this book floating around on Goodreads, which prompted me to read the description. I checked NetGalley to see if it was available and was awarded the request back in April. I had a few other reads to complete before it, but settled in last week to be able to release the review a few weeks before its publication, as part of an effort to promote the book.

<b><i><u>Approach & Style</u></i></b>
The book is told mostly in the present tense, which is not something I have experienced very oftenl however, it worked very well given the suspense and thriller aspects.

I read it via Kindle Reader on my iPad. It is about 5000 lines or 350 pages.

It is mostly told in a third-person point of view and switches focus on a few different characters. There are also 5 chapters which are news articles that one character writes as part of the book he is publishing. These serve to connect different story points and keep the momentum of what's happening behind the scenes.

<b><i><u>Plot, Characters & Setting</u></i></b>
Billie and Jonathan have been married for nearly 20 years and they have a 16-year-old daughter named Olive. They live in the East Bay on the outskirts of San Francisco, California. As the story starts, it's been almost one-year since Billie went missing after she was on a hike, leaving behind her husband and daughter to wonder if she was kidnapped or died somewhere in the forest, as a body was never found.

Billie grew up in a very religious family as an only child. She ran away from home a few times, and after father, a minister, was caught with a teenage girl, Billie left for good. She told her friends that he was an awful father and abused her from time to time. She became a free spirit and helped protect the environment and animals from disasters and corruption. One day, she meets Jonathan and after 6 weeks, they get married and later have a baby. She loves him, but seems to struggle settling down, often needing her free time away from the family life. Jonathan had a sister, but she drowned when they were children, and he's always felt guilt for not being able to save her. Years later, when he meets Billie, he's drawn to her and they quickly settle into a life where it's just the 3 of them.

Harmony, Billie's former best friend shows up at some point, trying to re-build her friendship with Billie. She also later tries to help Olive and Jonathan move on after Billie's death, offering both friendship and an attraction to Jonathan. Olive's best friend, Natalie, also tries to help Olive get over her mother's loss. But one day, Olive has a weird vision where she thinks her mother is trying to be found. Jonathan doesn't want to deal with it, as he believes Billie is dead, and needs the money from her life insurance to be able to afford to pay for their mortgage and raise Olive. But suddenly, as he begins throwing Billie's things away one year later, he finds notes and files that indicate she may not have been as honest with him as he thought. Jonathan begins to believe Olive and they search for Billie, learning various bits of information which cast Billie into a darker shadow.

The book is a quest for Olive and Jonathan to move on from Billie's death, but also to determine whether she is indeed alive or if something darker has happened to her when she supposedly went for the hike. It's a psychological thriller, leaving readers to question which information is accurate and which is just a red herring. In the end, Jonathan and Olive find a great deal of answers, learn what Billie had been up to in the last year of her life and figure out how to move on from the entire situation. You also find out exactly what happened to Billie when she went on her hike "to get some space for a few days."

<b><i><u>Strengths</u></i></b>
The story is captivating and draws you in around the 20% mark. You really want to know what happened to Billie. Jonathan and Olive are likable characters whom you want to find answers in order to be able to move on with their lives. Both are written as believable father and daughter. There are tons of personal details about their lives, including when Billie was home with them. You see this from both a parent's and a lover's perspective. The story engages you and pushes you to decide what kind of a person you want Billie to turn out to be.

It's a real-life situation for the most part. How do you move on when someone you love is missing and you don't know if they are dead or alive? All the right questions and emotions come up. It's fantastic that the story starts nearly one year after she's missing so we don't have to live through the initial phases of misery and loss. We see and feel the pain, but it's the kind you've already nursed, and then it's ripped open when evidence shows that she may still be alive.

I did like the character of Billie, but it was because of solid writing. And I'm not saying she's done anything wrong related to the disappearance (no spoilers!). I didn't like her because she seemed selfish to need so much time alone, to seem callous about showing her feelings to Jonathan at times, for treating everything as "that's life, we'll figure it out." I wanted to see the motherly side of her where she cries and yells and wants to help her child. Instead, she seemed too much of a free-spirit who just went with the flow. Sometimes it's good, but Billie took it too far in my opinion. But that means the writer did an awesome job pushing me to feel this way.

<b><i><u>Concerns</u></i></b>
I don't think the character of Harmony was flushed out as much as necessary. As you learn more, she feels a bit deeper, but overall, it was a bit of a missing component.

I know we needed Olive, Jonathan and Billie to seem like the only people around in the family, but where were Jonathan's family and his friends. They seemed AWOL at a time they were likely needed.

When the book ends, there are a few parts left too open for me. I want to know specifically what was true and what was false in regard to Billie's early days of running away. She told one story. Another character told a different story. Seeing the whole picture, I struggled a little in deciding who to believe. Even in the end. But it was just a little bit, nothing to throw the story off.

I wasn't too big a fan of the newspaper articles interspersed throughout the chapters. They didn't seem to serve as strong a plot device as I thought they could or should. It helped me learn more about how Jonathan felt about Billie, but at the same time, I think I'd have preferred a journal entry, a conversation with a psychiatrist or even him just saying things aloud. It wasn't distracting, but I didn't get a lot from it.

<b><i><u>Author & Other Similar Books</u></i></b>
It's the first book I've read by the author, but she's written two other books before this one. I would be interested in reading them as I liked her style. I plan to look them up and read if the plot sounds strong.

This book is not a thriller in that you are scared or afraid of someone being hurt. It's more suspenseful, trying to figure out what is really going on. In that vain, it's like The Girl on the Train or Gone Girl. You wonder for a while if you can trust the narrator. Maybe you can, maybe you can't. I won't say. But you get that feel from the book.

<b><i><u>Questions & Final Thoughts</u></i></b>
The title is super-important, as you'd expect. She disappears. You question the entire time you're reading the book... "Who is saying those words." Is is the mother, the daughter or the father? It could be any one of them. I liked that aspect. It's the perfect title, also because the word "disappear" can mean so many things: physically, emotionally, due to fear, due to memory loss... really engaging for those reasons. It got a 4 of 5 stars from me as there were some concerns and I struggled to stay focused in the first 15%. But once it got into the swing of things, I only put it down one other time, as I was very sleep. But I read the last 50% all in one sitting, so it's definitely got game!

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Watch Me Disappear initially seemed like it was going to be a thriller in the vein of Gone Girl - a woman has gone missing and is presumed dead. As the first anniversary of her disappearance into the wilderness approaches, Billie’s husband and daughter do some investigating to see if she’s actually alive. They find that her life is not all it appears to be, keeping secrets even from her closest family members.

The book’s perspective jumped between the husband and daughter, Jonathan and Olive. Jonathan is a journalist who has given up his relatively cushy job at a publication, following his wife’s presumed death, to work on a memoir about his life with Billie. Olive is a private school student dealing with some mean girls, feelings for her best friend, and sudden visions of Billie asking for Olive to find her.

I found that I didn’t care for any of the characters in this story. They felt disjointed and it seemed like the author was trying to include too many things at once. Olive’s supernatural visions and visits to a local psychic were a weird inclusion and didn’t fit with the tone of the book.

I’d recommend it to fans of Gone Girl, and while not specifically YA, I feel like the inclusion of Olive’s POV makes it suitable for older YA readers looking for a thriller.

Great suspense...kept me not wanting to put it down. Awesome twist!

Might have been my frame of mind, but I couldn't get into this book and abandoned it after 50 pages or so. Not for me.

Watch Me Disappear is a story about a father, Jonathan, and a daughter, Olive, trying to come to terms with the death of wife/mother, Billie. But as the one year anniversary of Billie's disappearance while hiking approaches, Olive starts having visions of her mom, which her dad initially writes off. But Jonathan and Olive start to both have their own suspicions that maybe Billie isn't dead after all as they start talking to Billie's old friends from her past life as a wild child/eco activist and after Jonathan finds some evidence of Billie's lies over the time before she died.

One of the previous reviews I read called this "the next Gone Girl" but while there are some twists, it doesn't quit have the suspense or the gasps of Gone Girl or Girl on a Train. I did enjoy the story and was curious to keep reading to see what happened with these characters and particularly, what happened to Billie.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for an advanced copy of this book in exchange for a review.

Watch Me Disappear achieves a rare literary feat: it is both tedious and tantalizing, predictable and unexpected, brilliant and boring. These opposing descriptions have nothing to do with the book's length-Ms. Brown could have chopped off one third of the novel without altering the outcome-but rather how she takes a simple premise-the disappearance of a woman while on a solo mountain hike- then throws in so many twists and sub plots the original question of what happened to Billie Flanagan almost becomes an afterthought. You have to be patient to appreciate Watch Me Disappear-while the opening prologue is a dreamlike sequence of a happy family on the beach-there is a sense of doom just waiting to pop out. Unfortunately the plot drags for awhile and the momentum gets lost. It seems like Ms. Brown had several ideas as to how she wanted the story to proceed, but instead of picking one she tries to fit them all in-and the result is a dizzying ride that could have ended several times before it actually does. But the writing is superb, and Watch Me Disappear does keep you guessing until the very end. It just veers off in so many directions it's hard to keep the enthusiasm up for any of them.

First and foremost, a large thank you to NetGalley, Janelle Brown, Random House Publishing Group and Spiegel & Grau for providing me with a copy of this publication, which allows me to provide you with an unbiased review.

Turning to a new author, I wanted to see what Janelle Brown had to offer in this interesting story that explores the family unit and its dynamic when a significant piece is missing. After Sybilla 'Billie' Flanagan goes missing during a solo hike, her immediate family is left to wonder what happen, while never giving up hope. Billie's husband, Jonathan, is left to wonder about his wife, entering a state of numbness as he goes through the motions of a memorial when she is seemingly dead. Adding to his confusion, Jonathan must juggle his teenage daughter, Olive, who is determined not to shut the door on her mother, wondering if she will walk through the door at any moment. When Olive begins having some visions of her mother, she holds out that Billie is alive and just away from them, either by choice or having been kidnapped. This lights a fire under Jonathan, who has been filling his time writing a memoir of life with Billie Flanagan. When Billie finds some information about Billie on her computer, this opens new potential pathways that go back three decades and the breadcrumbs that Jonathan follows leads him to believe this might have been something orchestrated. However, there is nothing to substantiate any of this, save for a gut feeling and a daughter whose focussed seems stronger than ever. Where is Billie Flanagan and was her disappearance something that had been in the works long before that hiking adventure? Brown offers up an interesting spin on a much-used plot, allowing readers to weigh the strength of a family's determination to find what belongs to them. An interesting read for those seeking something more emotion-based than a thriller or crime story.

This is the first piece of Brown's work that I have tried, which has left me a little on the fence. I was expecting a high-powered mystery, with characters that sought truth and sifted through lies. Brown works hard to create these characters: the lost and drifting Jonathan, his eager and determined Olive who is suffering the loss and her teenage epiphany, and the ever-elusive Billie, who comes to life in the stories that are told and through the other two characters. Brown serves to deliver the Billie persona through the ever-winding memoir on which Jonathan has been working and the increasingly vivid images that Olive develops. With a story that could have delved deep into mystery, Brown presents something that is more worthy of an emotional journey and one in which all the characters find and lose themselves at the same time. I found myself begging to find something on which I could grasp during the first portion, but by the end, the twists had me highly impressed as the narrative took me in directions I was not sure I would have originally liked. A journey full of mystery after all!

Kudos, Madam Brown for an great book. I think I may come back to see what else you have to offer sooner than later.

Most of us are familiar with the ancient Vedic fable of the blind men and the elephant, each of whom touches a different part of the elephant and describes the elephants as being like a rope, a tree, or fan, depending on their perspective. When Billie, Jonathan’s wife and Olive’s mother, disappears and is presumed dead, they learn that she was much like that fabled elephant–a very different person depending on where you stand when looking at her. In Janelle Brown’s Watch Me Disappear, the idea that we never know anyone fully, our understanding shaped by our needs and desires, is explored by this husband and daughter who come to believe that perhaps Billie is still alive.

Billie disappeared while hiking alone. After a long search, her body has not been found though one boot was. Nonetheless, there is certainty she could not have survived. Jonathan is writing a memoir about his marriage to Billie after his eulogy at her funeral went viral. This gives him the opportunity to quit the job that consumed his life and put pressure on their marriage. Olive is experiencing what she believes are psychic communications from her mother asking her to look for her. The hearing that will declare Billie officially dead is looming and they are conflicted. Jonathan knows they need the money to keep afloat and Olive does not want to give up hope. Certain inconsistencies arise that leads Jonathan to think Olive may be right.

There are many secrets in Billie’s past, though none of them seem, in the end, a justification for abandoning her husband and daughter. In fact, there is a bit of much ado about not-so-much when we get down to it. If Billie disappeared, it’s because she did not have faith in those who loved her and did not trust their love to accommodate her secrets. I think it would be devastating to learn your mother or spouse did not believe your love was strong enough to accept a more complicated history. After all, if someone disappears on purpose, there has to be a reason…and so they search for reasons. Olive is not nearly so conflicted as Jonathan who cannot conceive of any reason for Billie to disappear unless she fell in love with someone else, a painful idea to contemplate.

Watch Me Disappear is an engaging mystery in many ways. The slow discovery of Billie’s secrets is well done and credible with one caveat. Given that Jonathan was a journalist for a tech magazine, he does seem strangely unaware of the possibilities of online investigation and has to rely on others to explain to him. That seems a bit strange and does not speak well for his professional competence, but it does make a more interesting story than a guy in front of a screen searching online databases. Brown does an excellent job of pacing the revelations. She also creates interesting characters, not just Jonathan and Olive, but Billie’s best friend Harmony, Olive’s friend Natalie are also interesting and complex characters.

Brown does push one of my personal buttons, referring to one of the characters as an ecoterrorist. Sabotage and vandalism are not terrorism. Somehow we cannot call white supremacists who slaughter people of color terrorists, even when they kill nine people in a church or attack three people on light-rail, but thoughtlessly call people who sabotage and vandalize property terrorists. This is a socio-political hypocrisy that Brown is not responsible for, but I am always disappointed when people whose work is all about words use them without thinking.

This is an interesting story and most of the time Brown avoids telling us what to think and how to feel. However, sometimes there is just too much self-awareness in our character’s thoughts. For example, Olive thinks how being psychic would make her special. That’s the kind of thing people may think subconsciously, but it sounds silly as conscious thought. At the end, too, Olive seems to be handing us the moral of the story, just like at the end of a fable. It made me roll my eyes. However, these are minor flaws in a well-paced and intriguing story.

Watch Me Disappear will be released July 11th. I received an e-galley from the publisher through NetGalley.