Now I have to actually write that review, and that is the hard part. It’s going to be hard because, frankly, I was just so in the middle about this book. Nothing was horrible, but nothing was particularly good, either.
One Night Gone is going to be a hard one for me to review, simply because I feel really ambivalent about it. I liked it. It was a fast, easy read, which—lets be honest—is what you want out of a mystery. The multiple perspectives format seems to be almost the norm in a thriller these days, so that was almost expected. The storyline itself was fine.
One Night Gone is the story of Allison, a recently divorced meteorologist who takes a job as a house sitter in a beach town while contemplating her next move. While there, she meets Tammy, a local, and is quickly embroiled in a decades old disappearing person mystery. There are all the basic themes that we’ve all come to associate with small beach towns: class issues, family secrets, and lots and lots of infidelity.
I don’t really have any problems with One Night Gone except that there was a lot of what felt familiar and kind of cliched and everything interesting and different fell flat. We have these characters with rich potential: Allison has some mental health issues, Maureen is a carnie, Tammy has an ailing mother that she is responsible for. All this great potential to deepen the story, but instead we have mostly interchangeable characters with little that sets them apart. Like the rest of the story, it was just fine. To me, this is a book I could recommend to someone who sees it in stock at the library, but wouldn’t recommend buying. It’s a quick read, the story is very easy to get into, and it’s entertaining. It’s just nothing to write home about.
3/5
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