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Have You Seen Me?

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Wow this book completely reeled me in at page 1! I have not read a book by Kate White before. I am SO glad I got an ARC of this one. It was non-stop action. Ally is an NYC married business woman who is an expert in personal finances. She has a podcast and is writing a book on the subject. She is very organized and her life is planned down to the minute. At the very beginning of the book, she comes into her office and can't find her key or ID card to get in. Then her old boss comes in and sees her and tells her she hasn't worked there for 5 year which leave Ally is completely confused and lost especially after she faints and winds up the the ER. Trying to remember what her life is now comes back to her slowly after her husband Hugh shows up and brings her home. She realizes she has been gone from her life for two days yet has no idea where she has been or what she has done. She slowly starts piecing her missing 48 together with the help of her therapist and the private detective she hires to try and retrace her steps. Ally's life turns upside down as she digs deeper into her past actions and her psyche. This is a non-stop story of action and mystery. I loved it and definitely will read other books by this author! Thanks so much for the ARC, NG!!

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*Thanks to HarperCollins + NetGalley for the ARC!*

SOLID 4.5 stars from me for this one - if you enjoyed What Alice Forgot or The Wife Between Us, this should be on your to read list for having similar vibes.

The story was really good. Forgotten memories, questionable characters, and several of red herrings <spoiler>(like am I the only one who was left wondering up until the end if Gabby was going to be a backstabbing friend?! Her involvement was justtt weird enough to seem shady!)</spoiler> made this a fast and engaging read.

Will be recommending!

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Well, I mostly enjoyed this one.

While not a fan of present tense storytelling, this was a very readable book. I liked our main character, really liked that she wasn’t an idiot, and was very interested in what had happened to her and why.

Unfortunately, I didn’t love the way our plot and subplots were tied up. While I did figure out the *who* in one subplot, the why was weird and out of left field.

I generally liked the author’s style and would read the author again, I just found myself disappointed in the way everything wrapped up.

*ARC Provided via Net Galley

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What? Is this it? Are there any more pages that I forgot to read? Seriously ! How did book end like this? It is worse than last 15 minutes of Seven’s “What’s in the box”scene!

Sorry but I think the thrilling book I’ve been looking for cannot reach, read at this moment. Beep…. Yep it might have gotten lost at the tunnel.

The book made an intriguing, exciting start: Ally finds herself at her old work place she quit five years ago and she thinks that is her first work day after her short break. Then she bumps into her ex-lover and also her ex-boss. Yes, she just faints and finds herself in the ER with short term amnesia. She slowly starts to remember she is married, she is freelance finance journalist and she has a secret from her childhood which buggers her lately. She keeps some important information about the crime scene she witnessed when she was nine.

Well, at first half of the book bored me so much! I didn’t understand why Ally’s husband treated to her wife as if she is Airbnb renter. Their cold, meaningless, unfriendly, boring relationship made me yawned. I wished I could position toothpicks into my eyes to keep them open.

Roger, brother of Ally also acted so suspicious and his wife was annoyingly noisy and disturbing gossipy element!

I also didn’t understand the unfinished business between Ally and Damien which made me think, I’m reading an angsty romance between two lovers who recently broke up from so many misunderstanding and communication breakdown (in the meantime I’m listening Led Zeppelin to calm my nerves after the damage this book created on me)

So Ally hires a private detective to gather lost pieces of her last two days which connects with the murder she witnessed when she was a child but as soon as I read the conclusion of the story: I said WHAT WHAT WHAT!!!!!! The bad guy was a little bit obvious from the beginning, wearing a sign on his/her head but the revelation part was so tasteless, still boring, meaningless!

And of course there is tons of misleading and blanks at the story needed to be filled! The ending was aimless. I felt like the author has been kidnapped and somebody pulled a nasty prank by writing this ending to torture us!

And Ally seems like blind, deaf and one of the most lost and dumbfounded characters I’ve ever read for so long. If a person pokes her with a gun, she doesn’t find out he is bad guy till she’s bleeding to death! I want to scream at her to open her eyes and stop acting like Snow White who recently poisoned by a tasty apple and waiting for her prince’s awakening kiss.

I kept reading this one because there were too many five starred reviews so I got patient and I think the story would go to some different direction and guess what? It didn’t.

Overall: I’m giving two stars and declaring my shiny place in the minority. I did everything to enjoy this story and look from the brighter side but pacing, story development, characterization and ending with so many blank spots truly disappointed me.

Special thanks to NetGalley and Harper Paperbacks to share this ARC COPY in exchange my honest review. I wish I enjoyed this story but unfortunately it didn’t work for me!

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I’ve never read Kate White before but I will certainly start following her now! What a great book! Totally kept me intrigued! Interesting characters, psychological unrest and mystery with a side of possible romance.... sign me up!

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What is more enticing than a novel about a heroine chasing lost memories? Kate White delivers a whiplash-paced, harrowing and unpredictable thriller which raises questions about memory and culpability which will linger long after the final page.

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Kate White's newest novel is exciting and draws the reader. Its relly anadventure s . try about one woman, Ally,whose lost her memory and has no idea who she is. The plot fowwls her as she learns more about what happened to her for several days when she was comletely lost. The book is well writtne and easy to read.

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I loved this book so much. It was everything I hoped it would be and more.
The pacing is perfect, I never lost interest, even if I had to put the book down for a couple days. I constantly wanted to keep reading and find out what happened next and get to the bottom of the mystery. I had my suspicions of what happened and where the plot was going but I was never 100% sure and in the end, I was completely wrong and didn't see the plot twist coming at all.
The ending was a little bit rushed but it wasn't a big deal to me.
Overall, I have really nothing critical to say about Have You Seen Me. I haven't enjoyed a book this much in awhile and I'd definitely recommend it if you're looking for a good suspenseful mystery to pick up.

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Ally shows up for work one morning, only to realize that she hasn't worked in that office for 5 years and has no memory of anything since. I really don't know how to rate this or how to feel about it because the majority of the book was really good but then the ending was kind of absurd. There was a lot I enjoyed about this, but there were some points I could have done without. I'd still give it 4 stars, but I am somewhat disappointed at the ending and how rushed it felt.

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I really liked this book. It was a good suspense, thriller, mystery. Allie, the main character, has 2 days missing from her life, She has lost her purse, cell phone, and has a pocket full of bloody tissues. She goes into work, and finds out that she hasn’t worked there for several years and has gotten married and started a different career. Her life is upside down and no one has any clue to what caused the memory loss or what happened during those 48 hours. The author takes you through many twists and turns to discover where Allie has been and what has caused this memory loss. I really couldn’t put this book down once I started reading it. I highly recommend it to those that like a good mystery. Congratulations Kate White, you have a winner!

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I really wanted to love this one. But I had to DNF it after the Asian stereotyping at the beginning. It’s 2020 and there is no place nor excuse for that.

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This book grabbed me from the beginning and had me turning pages long after I should have been asleep. Ally finds herself unable to remember two full days of her life. No one seems to know where she was or what she was doing. And where did that blood come from? Soon, Ally is in fear for her life, and I was well and truly riveted.

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I received a copy of Have You Seen Me by Kate White , free, from Net Gallery in exchange for an honest review,
Kate White is a fantastic writer and this book might just be her breakout novel.
Ally Linden goes to work one morning and seems to have forgotten everything about her life.
She has been missing for 48 hours and doesn’t have a clue what she did during that time.
Needless to say, in order to u ravel what happened in that time, the story takes more twists and turns than a roller coaster.
Unisex is a very harrowing book that will keep you up late in the night
A great book that will linger with you after the final pages

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I keep seeing this book cover circulating around so I requested it without reading the description. Unfortunately I feel like this a thriller I’ve already read a hundred times (and I’m not a big fan).

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Have You Seen Me? is so good. I have loved Kate White's Bailey Wiggins series, but this is completely new and a stand alone novel. I loved having Ally's point of view throughout so we could see how she was deciphering all the missing events. It also helped to see all of her relationships through her eyes so there weren't a ton of assumptions to be made. I highly recommend Have You Seen Me? to anyone looking for a mystery that is a bit different than other books our there. 5 stars

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Kate White....what an incredible author! Her books just grab you from the start and never let you go!
Have You Seen Me takes you on the most intriguing roller coaster ride of suspense and mystery! You are kept guessing right up the end. But, I do have to say, the ending did leave me just a bit perplexed.....
Many thanks to NetGalley, the publisher and author for the opportunity to read and review this book. This is my true and honest review.

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Well, I do enjoy a good suspense novel, and this fit the bill. The narrator is inherently unreliable because she has a few days missing from her memory due to a dissociative state. Everyone in her life seems slightly suspicious as well, which adds to the suspense. A few twisty turns that I saw coming (because I suspect everyone) and a few that I didn't. I would read another book by this author. Recommended to fans of The Girl on the Train.

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Another solid thriller by Kate White! I generally enjoy her characters and her writing style. A few slow spots in this particular novel (and the scenes with her brother and the earlier murder seemed to subtract instead of adding). But a good twist at the end.

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Suspenseful, good character development. I have enjoyed some of Kate White's other books more. Not that this one was bad just maybe not for me.

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So what do you get when you read a Kate White Novel?

I began reading Kate when she first began the “Bailey Weggins” series and my love for her writing style only continued. She makes you feel as though you’re right there with the character, living out what they’re doing. If they’re walking the streets of East Village, and you’ve never been there (me!) then you know exactly what you’re looking at and how it feels, how it smells, how it sounds.

This story was no different and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I looked at my kindle and saw I was at 80% and thought, oh I’ll just hold off until tomorrow…and that’s when she comes in and says nope you have to finish tonight! The way she puts in those high points, the climaxes age the right spots to keep you going. She’s truly a master storyteller and I’m so glad I had the chance to read this one early.

Thank you NetGalley and HarperCollins! This gem arrives April 28 and y’all better get it, you’ll be hard pressed to find another great story like it!

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