This is what i would call a good page turner. It had all the mystery, action, it was actually a very entertaining read. Thanks to netgalley for giving me the Opportunity to read it. I really enjoyed it and loved the bound between emma and her mom.

What would you do if your child disappeared from her college dorm? Maggie will do whatever it takes to find her daughter, Emma. This is a tense and riveting book that will keep you turning the pages. It is told in the alternating voices of Maggie and Emma and this works very well. The book transitions smoothly from chapter to chapter. Emma is working on a story for the school newspaper when she disappears. All her belongings are gone. Where is Emma? I loved these characters. They are so realistic and believable. I had to know what happened. I could feel the fear and the panic. This is a very quick read because you can't put this book down. Well written with a great storyline. You don't want to miss out on this book. Great read!

It’s a parents worst nightmare. Your only daughter has gone away to college. You spend your day wondering, “Is she ok? Should I text her? Am I worrying to much?” Then a police officer shows up to your place of business to confirm your worst fears. Your child is missing. As the mother of an only child, this book definitely spoke to me. I could completely relate to the unbreakable bound between mother and daughter and the constant worry about letting your baby go free to discover life on their own terms. This book is told from both Maggie’s “present” point of view and as well as Emma’s “past” point of view. The story slowly unfolds until both stories meet in an unusual location. While the mystery in the book was the missing daughter, Emma herself was also chasing a story for her college paper. I would have loved to have had more resolution to this part of the story, only because I was invested and wanted to know how it worked out. Can you please write a second book - I have to know what happens next! If you love a book with a splash of mystery and strong female characters, this is a must read.

This was an intriguing, while very sad. I loved the fact that it was in different points of views, because I feel that you get a more complete picture of the truth. It was very riveting and well written. I think many will enjoy, although children missing and hearing the Mother’s heartache can be tough.
Will make sure to buzz it up!

I enjoyed this book. The back and forth character point of view worked well for this novel. The mother’s perspective was realistic and I cannot imagine what it would feel like to have your daughter disappear. I felt that the ending was a little rushed and abrupt, but overall found the book interesting and engaging.

Thank you to Kelly Simmons, Sourcebooks Landmark, and NetGalley for an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

A shout out to Sourcebooks and Netgalley for an early e-copy of this book. Maggie is a hair dresser and recently lost her husband, who was a cop. Her only child, Emma, is off to college for her freshman year. Maggie thinks everything is a-okay with Emma until the police show up at her door saying she’s missing. What follows is chapters in alternating viewpoints from Emma and Maggie. Maggie’s chapters are in the present while Emma’s start much earlier.

Billed as a domestic thriller, women’s fiction would have been more accurate. I easily identified with both main characters – Emma having trouble adjusting to college and making new friends and Maggie’s “just do it” attitude when it came to finding her daughter.

The beginning grabbed me probably because of the character identification. The middle moved a little slowly for my tastes and I was totally confused by the ending and couldn’t believe I’d read the last page.

Because I just dropped off my last child at college, this was not a book I could read right now. But I did buy it for the library's fiction collection and will recommend it to my readers who enjoy this type of story.

From the moment I started reading “”Where She Went” I couldn’t put it down. Less than 24 hours later I finished the book (not an easy feat with three kids home on summer break). A college aged girl, old enough to be on her own, but young enough for mom to worry, goes chasing down a story that leaves her needing answers and no one knowing “Where She Went”. A fantastic book that ended a little too abruptly leaving me with a longing for more.

Thank you to NetGalley and Sourcebooks Landmark for the eARC of Where She Went.

This book starts off with Maggie, widow of a police officer killed in the line of duty, finding out their only child Emma is missing. Emma is a freshman at Semper University. The whole book is told in alternating POV's between Maggie and Emma. This book had me hooked. I was super intrigued with Emma's chapters, totally sucked in to her story line of horrible roommates, investigative journalism and just trying to navigate her first year of college. Maggie kind of annoyed me a little. I get it, she'd lost her husband and she was having trouble not hovering over her only child in the aftermath of that loss. But she was way over the top and as the wife of a police officer I would have expected her to be less hindering to any and all investigations into where her daughter was. The story was a 5 star read for me until the last few chapters. The ending felt a little anticlimactic. I would have liked a complete resolution to Emma's newspaper article. Overall a good read.

This was good, not great. Not as much of a thriller as I thought it would be and the ending kind of fizzled for me...it was abrupt and really glossed over. Also I felt like there were characters that were either unnecessary or that we needed to know more about. (Also why is Sarah Franco the only character called by her first and last name?) The other thing that struck me as odd was the way the author seemed to project people of Irish heritage as feeling like they’re in a lower class? Is that even a thing for college kids now?

It was an easy read and I liked it. I wish it had ended stronger though. Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for an ARC!

This book wasn’t as good as I was hoping it would be. It had a great concept and plot with a good character development but it wasn’t that engaging to me. I just couldn’t get into this book which is why I am giving it only 2 stars. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing this book for my honest review.

Maggie is a helicopter mom and when her only daughter goes away to college, she needs to learn how to let Emma live her own life. When Emma goes missing, Maggie has to figure out what happened to Emma. This wonderful thriller is told by Maggie in the present and by Emma in the past leading up to her disappearance. This is a story of a mother's love and what a mother will do to keep her child safe. I received an advanced readers copy and all opinions are my own.

Sending your first child off to college is stressful for any parent. But newly single Maggie is dealing not only with an empty nest, but also her husband’s recent death, her grief complicated by the knowledge of his betrayal. Learning that her daughter, Emma, has disappeared from her dorm transforms her ordinary worries into panic.

A cop’s widow, Maggie knows a lot about investigations, and has no qualms about conducting her own. She has an unlikely ally in the form of Gina, the woman with whom her husband was having an affair.

Alternating between Emma’s and Maggie’s points of view, the story reveals terrifying truths about college and dorm life, along with dark, unimaginable secrets. As Emma closes in on the truth, she puts herself in more danger than Maggie thought possible.

The ending seemed abrupt, with a few loose threads hanging. But the novel is otherwise well-paced, and is as much about women’s relationships (both good and bad) as it is the mystery. #NetGalley #WhereSheWent

An interesting and gripping read - Where She Went kept me reading late into the night. I loved the two POV’s - Maggie, a mother and widow of a police officer and Emma, who is a freshman in college. I liked both characters - but I did enjoy Emma’s perspective more. The author did well to paint a picture of a mother/daughter relationship, and how sometimes it’s difficult to really know somebody, even your own child.

I was gripped from start to finish - although I did find it predictable in some parts. Definitely worth a read if you want something that’s gripping but relatively low key on the darker parts of the thriller genre.

Publisher’s description:
Maggie O’Farrell knows she’s turning into one of those helicopter parents she used to mock. Worrying constantly, texting more than she should, even occasionally dropping by the campus “just to say hi.” But Maggie can’t shake the feeling that something terrible is about to happen to Emma. And then, just as Maggie starts to relax, her daughter disappears.

The clues are disturbing. An empty dorm room where Emma was supposedly living. A mysterious boy described as Future Husband in her phone. Dormmates who seems more sinister than friendly. As Maggie combs over the campus looking for signs of her daughter, she learns more about Emma’s life than she ever thought possible.

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I started out really liking Kelly Simmons’ “Where She Went.” Throughout the book, we get alternating chapters of Emma, a college freshman on a mission to find a story for the school paper, and Maggie, Emma’s hairdresser mother who was widowed when her police officer husband was killed in the line of duty. There are some complications in their family life that create some interesting character elements that I won’t spoil here, but I will admit I was really into this book until about halfway through. The alternating chapters allow the reader to know what Emma was doing leading up to her disappearance and enable us to kind of connect the dots between Emma’s actions and what Maggie and the police discover along the way.

The conclusion of the story, though, was a serious letdown. There are huge gaps in the timeline that never get filled in, and the story never really comes to a conclusion. All through the book, Emma was after this big story that never has a resolution, and Emma was found and nothing seems to happen. We don’t know how she disappeared. We kind of know why but none of the details. It almost felt like there were several chapters of the book completely missing. And then it just ends so abruptly.

Unless there are some chapters miraculously added to this, I recommend skipping this one. You’ll end up more confused at the end and looking for answers that you won’t find.

Thanks to NetGalley and Sourcebooks Landmark for an advance copy in exchange for an honest review. This title is scheduled for publication on October 1, 2019.

While I didn't dislike this book, I found it to be disappointing. It was more of a mystery than a thriller. I liked the dual point of view, but felt the characters were not fully fleshed out, and so I just wasn't that interested in them.

The end was very rushed, in fact, when I went to tap for the next page in my Kindle, and saw that the book had ended, I was like, oh okay - I guess that's it. I was actually very interested in the actual story Emma was pursuing and would have liked to have read more about that.

A good voman fiction. Although not my type of a thriller. Still readable. Good Job.

Thank you NetGalley and Mrs. Simmons for this arc.

Where She Went deals with a very difficult topic these days. Trafficking/Prostitution which unfortunately happens more often than we ever care to hear about. Emma is a college freshman trying desperately to become a part of her school's newspaper team. The editor, Jason, tasks Emma with coming up with a general interest story, something to put her name on the map. She uncovers the truth that some of her dorm mates are engaging in exchanging sexual favors for money to pay for college. They are sugarbabies. Through her research she also comes to discover that some of the professors at the university may also be involved. Emma then goes undercover, deleting her social media presence and opting for a burner phone rather than her cell and takes off away from the dorms to further investigate. Meanwhile her helicopter mom Maggie is not having that her daughter is missing. She pushes the campus staff and local police in any way she can to find her daughter. Emma ends up deep in the world she was trying to investigate and it nearly costs her life. She ends up heavily drugged and wakes up in a psychiatric ward. At times this book can be a little confusing. I am not even quite sure I grasped all of it but overall it was a good read, just not one I would keep on my shelf to read over again

Where She Went is a story filled with an unputdownable story that I highly recommend. The synopsis doesn't do it justice!

Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for the Advance copy. I had a tough time with this book. It wasn't your typical psychological thriller. More of a mystery. There was suspense but just did not quite get fully there. Told in each characters pov. The end was a bit rushed. Maggie was over protective of her daughter Emma. Then Maggie cannot find her once she goes away to college and tries to put the pieces together as she searches.