Unfortunately I really struggled with this book. I found the characters extremely annoying and wanted to shout at them from my kindle . At times I felt like giving up but I persevered to the end, admittedly skimming pages as I went along . The last 10% of he book was ok but still not one I would recommend.


I will not be leaving any reviews on Amazon for this book .

Omg this book was soooo good. I couldn't put it down. Such an easy and fast read. I would've never guessed it in a million years. It was such a shocking twist at the end. All the revelations that came to light at the end were fantastic. This book had everything. Great characters, content and a shocking ending. What more do you want from a book???

This book started off promising and then lost me in all of its improbability. It did manage to keep my attention from the very beginning and then let me down with the crazy ending.

A good idea for a story but I felt it sadly didn't live up to the description. I couldn't wait to finish it but not for the best reasons

Losing your child is every mothers' worst fear! Do you ever wonder what it would be like to look away for one second and have your child vanish? This is what happens to Erika Rice. Almost the entire story takes place in one building and it is the perfect setting for this tale. There are plenty of unique and interesting characters. Read Erika's story and experience the very real possibility for yourself!

Erika dreads returning to the penthouse home she used to share with her husband Michael. But her primary concern is for her daughter Alice, nicknamed Bunny, and how upset she will be not to have one of her favorite toys with her, left in the last visit with her father. Unfortunately, the elevator malfunctions, leaving Erika and the little girl stuck between floors. Erika manages to pry open the doors, leaving enough space for the girl to get out, but far too small for Erika. When she finally gets the elevator up and running again, she returns to the 7th floor and finds Alice nowhere to be seen. Frantic now, she searches the entire building with the help of the desk clerk, a retired maintenance worker, and the current head of maintenance. As they comb the building from top to bottom and in between, Erika is more and more convinced that her ex Michael has arranged for the kidnapping of his own child and has colluded with the retired worker and his son, an ex-con working also in maintenance there. During the hunt, Erika recalls the change in her husband's attitude toward her both during and after her pregnancy and the sense that he cared nothing at all for her now. A baffling shift from the loving and compassionate man who was working so hard to build an incredible future for them all. When Bunny is finally located, underneath a bed in the retired maintenance man's apartment, all Erika cares about is getting her home. Police remain on the scene to confront Michael's part in this plan......and the truth is revealed. Erika lost her baby at eight and a half months following a panic attack in the elevator when it got stuck. Doctors desperately tried to save her, but it was too late. And Michael finds Erika in the hospital, cradling their stillborn child. Even once taken from her, Erika insists that the child is still alive and she is eventually committed to a psychiatric facility. Sadly, after three and a half years, she is still not able to return to reality, resulting in her escaping while on a day trip from the facility and making her way to her previous home and, seeing the ex-con's daughter, immediately believes that he has been lured into kidnapping Bunny for Michael. A journey fraught with parental panic and guilt. Absolutely fantastic ending. 

My sincere thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for sharing this title with me. This review has also been shared on Pinterest, Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Librarything.

Like any parent of a small child, the premise of this book, a small child who runs off and vanishes from her mother without a trace, is a heart-stopping panicked feeling that I was definitely on board with from the very start of this novel. Erika is a single mother, having had an acrimonious separation from her workaholic controlling ex-partner Michael when her daughter was six months old. While visiting Michael's apartment building to pick up a left-behind toy, Alice, her four year old daughter, runs out of the elevator which opens on the wrong floor, and before she can follow her, Erika winds up stuck behind in the lift. Alice is gone.
Alex Sinclair weaves a tale in the present but flashing back through the relationship of Michael and Erika and her life with Alice (who she calls by her pet name, Bunny). It's got many twists and turns that kept me on my toes, I raced through to the end and nothing prepared me for the twist at the finish - make sure to keep reading to the very last! Looking forward to reading more from this author.

A brilliant read. You can feel Erika’s fear,desperation, and frustration in this claustrophobic setting. Great pace and an amazing ending

Great idea for a book but for me it didn’t keep me captivated. This book was set in an apartment building with one primary character. While there were other smaller characters mentioned, rarely were they involved in the story. The twist at the end was good but the book bored me a little in the middle.

Many thanks to Bookouture for allowing me to review this book

I am sorry to say that this book just didn't do it for me at all. I'm not a huge fan of twilight zone type books. And as this storyline took place in a high rise I just couldn't connect with it. Thanks to Netgalley and Bookouture for allowing me to read this book.

A disturbingly creepy storyline with an impressive writing. The pace seems consistent with the plot, and there’s fear conveyed through every word of the book.

Erika is taking her 4-year-old daughter to her estranged husband's top floor apartment on the 14th floor of an upscale building when they get trapped inside a stuck elevator. When it moves a little and the doors open slightly at mid floor, little Alice squeezes through the small opening onto the 7th floor. Erika, already anxious, can't get through and the doors close again taking her down to the lobby. Frantic, she asks the young man at the reception desk, Henry, to help her find Alice. She enlists the help of another resident, Alan, to come with her when Henry seems loathe to take any action. When they get back up to the 7th floor, Alice is nowhere to be found. A door-to-door search is fruitless. What could have happened and where is Alice? And does Alice's disappearance have something to do with Erika's ex, Michael, or has someone in this building kidnapped her? NO SPOILERS.

I read this short book in a little over an hour. Not because it was so compelling, but because I was having such a hard time making sense of the story given how I found it all so utterly unbelievable. That's how I knew something was really off. Yes, it would be entirely normal for a mother to be hysterical if she had lost her child but Erika seemed bat-crap crazy and her madcap actions had me shaking my head. I just had to get to the end of this so that I could find out if my instincts were correct. Yes. There was a twist at the end and it sort of explained some of the day's events as Erika, Alan and several others race up and down and around the building. Definitely different sort of missing child book to what I expected.

Thank you to Bookouture and NetGalley for the e-book ARC to read and review.

First got to say this, the 4 year old in question who goes missing in the book has a nickname ‘Bunny’ ( there is a valid reason why ) and so there are frequent ‘Bunny Bunny where are you’ and ‘Oh my Bunny’......a more irritating nickname couldnt have been chosen.....
Also, I think for the first time ever since reviewing I messaged the author to check the ending as thought had it right but wasnt 100% sure, to his credit he answered straight away and explained....
The premise for the book is good, a Mum (Erica) takes her daughter (Alice) to see her estranged hubby/Dad and as they are in the lift going to the Penthouses it gets stuck!!! Alice escapes through a gap and when Erica is released goes on the hunt for her....the description of the lift breaking down and them being stuck is very good, claustrophobic and tense....
The story then goes on and Erica becomes increasingly annoying as she searches( with the help of others ) for Alice and she has panic attacks at the slightest thing ( I know I should sympathise but she got on my nerves having them every 2 minutes!!! 😃)
The book takes a few turns and it seems to be going to an ending you expect, in fact it cleverly lulled you into thinking you knew the outcome all the way through it but then it all changes and there is a brilliant twist ( yep twist!!) and as say I had to write and check I had it right
I didnt feel I ever got to know the characters and found them aloof and not ‘reader friendly’ or likeable, some of the situations in the book as they looked for Alice where frustrating and repetitive but did make more sense at the end
An enjoyable quick read with as say a great start and great end
7/ 10 3 stars

Erika goes to her ex- husband's luxury apartment building with Alice to get her daughter's favourite doll that she left after a visit. Erika is planning to move away so wants to get the doll before they leave.

The apartment building is fairly deserted. When the elevator sticks Alice panics and manages to squeeze through a gap to the next floor. By the time Erika gets out of the elevator there is no sign of her daughter.

For the next few hours Erika frantically searches for her 'Bunny' (I found this way of referring to her daughter increasingly irritating!!) She does not know where to turn or who to trust & becomes convinced this has all been planned by by her ex to snatch their daughter.

The story really captures the claustrophobic feel of them all being caught in the building. It captures Erika's panic. I didn't see the later part coming at all.

This was an enthralling read with some irritations that stopped it being a 5* read. It is however a solid 4. Thanks to Netgalley & the publisher for letting me read & review this book.

I really struggled with this book. The synopsis sounded so promising but I felt it just didn’t measure up. It was so long winded and the writing was very repetitive and monotonous. I didn’t feel the actions of the characters was believable and I struggled to stay engaged throughout the book and had no affinity with any of the characters.

I just can’t resist an interesting premise. I knew that I had to read The Day I Lost You by Alex Sinclair, the minute that I saw the cover and read the book’s blurb. I have read books about children being taken from their homes, getting lost in a park, school, a mall. However, I have never read anything about a kid getting lost like this. I mean, Alice and her mum were in an elevator when it got stuck. The little girl ran out the elevator the second the doors opened but Erika was stuck when the lift suddenly moved again. Sounds easy enough though, right? I thought she would just get back to the floor where Alice got off and get her. That might have happened in a normal building but this was anything but normal.

I liked the characters in the story. They were an interesting mix. Erika was so determined to get her baby back and I liked how she wasn’t letting anyone getting in the way. As for the residents in the apartments, now that’s an entirely different story. There were some really creepy people in the building. First of all, the building was huge with 14 floors. Then, the floor where Alice went missing is actually filled with unoccupied apartments and some creepy characters.

The story began on a fast-pace. Following Erika’s narration, my heart was racing as I tried to guess where Alice was. However, the pace slowed down in the middle of the story. Granted, the fact that there were only a handful characters and the entire story is set in one building meant that not much, outside the incident, was going on. However, I liked the sections with flashbacks. They helped in moving the story along and provided some background information on the key characters.

The final twist was unpredictable, interesting and definitely one that I am still thinking about. It’s the kind of twist that makes you want to go back to the first page and re-read the story.

Interesting characters, compelling story line and an apartment building that was a character in itself, this was a good read.

Released for purchase earlier this month, The Day I Lost You by Alex Sinclair is a thriller/suspense novel of the "missing child" variety. In a semi-believable scene, Erika loses her daughter Alice (affectionately referred to as Bunny) when an elevator malfunctions and stops between two floors while trying to retrieve something from her ex-husband's apartment; Bunny was able to get off safely, while Erika was stuck in the elevator and forced to use the stairs to get back to her daughter. Of course, when she reaches the seventh floor, there's no sign of Bunny. The Day I Lost You is told using dual time periods, one while Erika frantically searches the 14-floor apartment building and one that details Erika's pregnancy with Bunny and the demise of her marriage several years earlier. The people in the apartment complex seem less than helpful, almost suspicious, of Erika and no one can get in touch with Erika's ex-husband, Michael. Using her motherly instincts, Erika begins a frantic search of the apartment building and is determined to get her daughter back.!

Well as all these reviews on the blog blitz raved about how they didn't see the ending coming, I had mostly figured it out about halfway through the book. I obviously didn't have all the details--but knew the general premise...and was right about it. It was a bit of a struggle for me to remain engaged, only because so much of the book happens in one location--the ex-husband's apartment building--but the dual time periods help to break that up a bit. And, since I had mostly figured out the ending, I felt like I was just waiting for the other shoe to drop, so to speak. Despite the predictability (for me, anyways), it was a short, easy read that I finished in less than a day--without too much effort or time. So, if you need something short and fast-paced, The Day I Lost You may be a great pick for you!

Erica Rice and her 4 year old daughter Alice, go to her ex husbands apartment to pick up Alice’s princess doll that she left there when she last visited.

Whilst in the lift going up to the 11th floor the lift stop in between floors and Alice squeezes out leaving Erica in a descending lift on her own and Alice on the 7th floor.

The story is told in 2 timelines before and after Alice’s disappearance. Erica and Michael are excited about being pregnant after trying for 2 years,but now Michael seems more worried about the forth coming baby then her.

I seemed to have read a lot of books about missing children recently and yes some are better than others!! But for me this was chilling because it was set in a creepy apartment block where people’s reactions to a missing child were bizarre.Wouldn’t you be ringing the Police and desperately trying to find the little girl?

At times it was a bit unbelievable but I definitely didn’t see that ending coming.

Thank you to Netgalley for my copy of this book in exchange for a review.

This book had just a middle of the road feel. There have been some great thrillers recently, while this one was not a 5 star, it also wasn't a 1 star. The description got me so excited for this book. But it just kind of fell flat for me. I needed more action, less repeating and maybe change of scenery.

The Day I Lost You is a parents worse nightmare come true.
Erica has had to come and visit her ex-husbands apartment to pick up her daughters toy she has left there. Whilst in the lift it comes to an unexpected halt between floors, Alice being small manages to squeeze out of the narrow gap in the doors leaving Erica behind. The doors shut and takes Erica back down to the ground floor leaving Alice behind. I was totally with Erica throughout this awful journey and prayed she would be reunited with her daughter. The characters that lived in this huge building all seemed very unhelpful and I wasn’t sure who to trust and who not to.
It seemed to get stuck about halfway but the paced picked up again afterwards nicely and the ending was very unexpected and although it was believable i never thought it would end like this. Definitely worth reading if just for the ending.
I would like to thank Netgalley and Bookouture for this ARC I received in exchange for an honest review.