Thank you NetGalley and St Martins Press for providing me with an ARC. I loved this mother and daughter story. It explores the themes of sacrifice and loyalty and love while engrossing you in a fast paced thriller that I didn’t see coming. It’s a difficult novel to discuss without spoilers- but one that was really enjoyable. It won’t disappoint!

I really loved this book! I love the dual POVs, the plot, the twists. I highly recommend this one to anyone looking for a good thriller!

Another fantastic book by Sarah Pekkanen! This book had me guessing and turning pages well into the night! Definitely an auto read author for me

Wow, I thoroughly enjoyed this book! I’ve always loved Pekkanen’s books and this one was no exception. Catherine and her Mom Ruth are trying to make it day by day, when they discover that Ruth has Alzheimers. So many discoveries happen throughout the book that I don’t want to spoil, but Catherine tries to navigate her way to getting some answers about her and her Mom’s past. It was a wild ride for sure, I finished the book in 2 days. I would definitely recommend it to others because I loved it!

Compared to my bookstagram friends, I’m on outlier island with this one…

While a quick read, this was just a mediocre “thriller” for me. I enjoyed the alternating points of view, when done right, I love this type of story telling. However… I started to feel like we were on a seesaw, going back and forth, with not much happening.

The actual pacing of the story was slow. Nothing really happened for the first half of the story… I was intrigued enough to hang in there for the twist, which wasn’t very thrilling. (Be mindful of trigger warnings)

I would still recommend this read… maybe you will enjoy it more than I did.

I absolutely loved this book!! I really felt the emotions of the characters- sadness, frustration, regret, fear. I couldn't put it down! I absolutely will buy this book for our library and put it in our staff picks section! Thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for the opportunity to read this!

Such a good story! This one is a slow burn that has plenty of twists. It kept me on the edge of my seat. I went into this story blind and had no idea what to expect or where it was going. I enjoyed this one and will be recommending to my friends.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a copy in exchange for an honest review.

Previously have only read the books that Sarah co-authored with Greer but she showed that she can also do a great job on her own with this one!
A mother will do anything to protect their daughter! Ruth is incredibly overprotective of her daughter Catherine even when she is an adult and ready to venture on her own. Ruth will do anything to keep her daughter close. She has a plan and isn’t beyond lying to her daughter! When Catherine begins to see cracks in Ruth’s stories, she becomes more curious and goes digging deeper but doesn’t realize the implications of what she is doing! Ruth has spent her life running from her past and starting a new life all to protect her daughter but will that all be for naught when Catherine can’t let things go!
A look at a mother and daughter’s relationship through growth and secrets and the intense love that comes with all of it! Crazy all of the things revealed at the end and how much you didn’t really know about Ruth!
Thank you netgalley for the ARC in exchange for my honest review!

Gone tonight was a really interesting thriller. Based on the synopsis I had no idea where the story was going and I was very surprised by the twist. I thought the book had really nice pacing and kept me interested for the entire story.

I love getting emails from Netgalley notifying me that I have been sent a new book to review! It is even better when that book is one of my most anticipated releases of the year and is written by an author who's previous release was a 2022 favorite of mine! Naturally, when I stopped what I was doing to download and start this book. Thankfully, I was not disappointed.

Gone Tonight is a thriller written by author, Sarah Pekkanen. It was released in August of this year.
If you would like to purchase Gone Tonight you can find it on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. You can follow the author, Sarah Pekkanen, on Instagram and Goodreads! You can also check out her website!

Before I get into this review, I want to thank St. Martin's Press, the author, and Netgalley for sending me an advanced audiobook copy of this one. As always, all views expressed are my own.

Catherine Sterling thinks she knows her mother. Ruth Sterling is quiet, hardworking, and lives for her daughter. All her life, it's been just the two of them against the world. But now, Catherine is ready to spread her wings, move from home, and begin a new career. And Ruth Sterling will do anything to prevent that from happening.
Ruth Sterling thinks she knows her daughter. Catherine would never rebel, would never question anything about her mother's past or background. But when Ruth's desperate quest to keep her daughter by her side begins to reveal cracks in Ruth's carefully-constructed world, both mother and daughter begin a dance of deception.

I gave this 4.5 stars on Goodreads. I really loved this! I have been itching for a thriller with a new or fresh plot line. I understand that there are only so many directions to go in and that thrillers will often have overlap---and I am okay with that---but because I read so many thrillers, it gets a bit repetitive after a while. This was intriguing from the start and maintained my interest throughout.
I think this brought something new to the table and I can appreciate that!

It is a well known fact here on the blog that I am a dual-POV lover! This book has such a dynamic dual--POV storyline that kept me guessing and really built up the suspense. In addition to the suspense, there is some really interesting commentary on mother-daughter relationships and, my favorite... SHORT CHAPTERS!!! Ugh, I am obsessed with short chapters. I have heard the back and forth on long vs. short chapters. You can call me crazy, but I am sticking with my short chapters!

As I mentioned earlier, I listened to the audiobook. The audiobook was well produced and easy to follow. If you are an audiobook reader or are looking for a good thriller to get you into audiobooks, I think this is a good option for you!

Overall, I highly recommend this book to thriller lovers! Due to the nature of the content in this book and some of the dialogue/language used throughout, I would recommend for readers 17+.
This was the first book that I have read from this author that was written solely by her (not a book that she co-authored with frequent writing partner Greer Hendricks) and I would really love to read her future solo works also. It takes a lot of talent to be able to shift between writing solo and writing as a duo, I am impressed with the consistent quality of the works (written and co-authored by Sarah Pekkanen) that I have read so far. I think this book will be a big hit this year!

Gone Tonight by Sarah Pekkanen is a domestic suspense about Catherine and her mother Ruth. Ruth will do anything to protect her daugher. This story was a bit too much in some parts, but I think the author did a good job showing just how important the mother and daughter relationship is. Thanks to NetGalley for the free digital review copy. All opinions are my own.

A slow burn with many, many twists that i never saw coming! I couldn’t put this one down. The writer slowly unraveled the story and revealed a bit at a time, keeping me hooked and frantically turning pages. Ripe with tension, this was a fun read!

They say mother daughter relationships are complicated Sarah Pekkanen really delves into quite the page turning read on such a relationship between Catherine and Ruth. Honestly I went into reading this one not knowing what to expect since I'm already a fan of the author and Sarah really showed why she is a master at building a suspenseful thriller filled with mystery and great characters in Gone Tonight.

I enjoyed a couple of the author's books she coauthored (The Wife Between Us & You are Note Alone), so I looked forward to reading this book! This story portrays a mother who loves her daughter to the point of over protection, calculating her daughter's every move/choice and manipulating her daughter's experiences all to conceal a secret from her past that is seemingly coming to catch up with her. It places her daughter in danger. The story moves back and forth in points of view and timelines, with some mystery and vagueness that causes the reader to wonder exactly WHO is the most reliable narrator. This caused the book to move a bit too slowly in places and repetitive in others. The twists were apparent to me, but I enjoyed the experience of seeing how these characters' choices and what they'd reveal, until the satisfying ending,

This is a great suspense novel. I liked the dual pov, of a mom and daughter. This book had it all, secrets, lies, suspense. I really enjoyed this book.

This is the first stand alone novel I’ve read by Sarah Pekkanen and it did not disappoint. I really enjoyed The Wife Between Us and The Golden Couple that Pekkanen co-authored with Greer Hendricks- both solid 4 star reads for me. I often recommend The Wife Between Us to friends looking for a good suspense novel that keeps you engaged and makes you think! That’s exactly how I felt about Gone Tonight. It’s not super twisty but there were strategic surprises throughout. The ending, in true thriller fashion, is action packed and intense; it had my heart racing a bit… exactly what I hope for in a book like this! It reminded me a bit of Pieces of Her by Karin Slaughter and I’d recommend both!!

I had all three copies of this book- digital (thank you to @netgalley and @stmartinspress), physical (it was one of my Book of the Month picks for August), and the audiobook from my library which I listened to on Libby. I mostly read my digital and print copies. I love Kate Mara as a narrator but she read both POVs for Catherine and Ruth and I kind of got confused at times because the voice and cadence was much the same for both characters. Still an enjoyable listen, though.

𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚:
🔥 Slow Burn thrillers
🧩 Solving puzzles
🎭 Multiple Perspectives
🤫 Secrets and lies
🏃‍♀️ Escaping a troubled past
👩🏻‍🍼 Complex mother/daughter relationships

Interesting story going from the perspectives of mother and daughter, Ruth and Catherine. Catherine is studying to be a nurse and works army a memory care facility. She finishes school and gets her dream job at John’s Hopkins. Before she’s about to move her mother starts showing signs of Alzheimer’s and Catherine is trying to figure out what to do. Along the way Catherine questions if her moms diagnosis is real and starts to unravel who “Ruth” really is.

Unfortunately this one didn’t really work for me or capture my interest throughout. Here is a story of a mother and daughter, both with secrets to hide. If I was Catherine, I would have started asking my mother questions way before it got to this point. Neither woman is very likeable and I didn’t feel compelled to root for either one. We find out what Ruth is hiding early on, leaving little to surprise. Most of the time we’re waiting for Catherine to uncover what we already know which to me as a reader was a bit boring. Nothing truly shocked me and left me longing for more. The narrator was also not ideal, as she didn’t ever change her voice tone, even for different voices. While the ending was action packed and suspense, overall this one missed the mark for me.

Thank you to St. Martin’s Press, Sarah Pekkanen, and NetGalley for the advance reader copy in exchange for my honest review.

This book was hard for me to find a rating for. (Spoilers Ahead?)
Part one was so engaging and fun! It was a little creepy and I didn't know who I could trust.
Part 2 lost me. It just felt disjointed. I also am not sure how I feel about using the medical illness as a reason for things. I loved the mother/daughter duo.... I HATED the fact that the mom pretended to have dementia to get her daughter to stay in their town. I'm kind of numb to this book.

I've only read books written by Sarah Pekkanen when she teams up with Greer Hendricks, so I wasn't sure what to expect for this thriller. I really liked the dual POV that the book was written in. I found both main characters to be intriguing and likeable for their own reasons. I enjoyed the slow burn unravel of the mystery plot line but when it was all said and done, it felt underwhelming. I expected so much more from this author. The lies and deceipt, sure they were exactly that. But as a reader, they felt quite justified and reasonable. I was expecting some giant plot twist to come out of no where and blow me away. That never happened. When the ending of the book neared, I braced myself for the shock that never came. I liked the story as a whole and felt it was extremely interesting and a very fast and easy read but it didn't wow me by any means.