#Macmillan Audio Review- Gone Tonight by Sarah Pekkanen

Today I'm sharing my review of the Macmillan Audio edition of Gone Tonight, Sarah Pekkanen's latest psychological thriller.
Enjoy!

ASIN: B0BK2Z2QTR
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Release Date: 08-01-2023
Length: 10 hours - 9 minutes
Source: Publisher for review
Buy It: Audible/ Chirpbooks

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Overview:

New from the #1 bestselling co-author of The Golden Couple and The Wife Between Us!

"I'm a huge fan of Sarah Pekkanen's books, and GONE TONIGHT is her best yet." ―Colleen Hoover

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.

Listen to an excerpt:

MacmillanAudio · Gone Tonight by Sarah Pekkanen, audiobook excerpt

My Macmillan Audio review:

Gone Tonight
Sara Pekkanen

Gone Tonight was one of the best and one of the strangest thrillers I’ve experienced this year so far, a mother daughter drama that launches into a rollercoaster ride of lies, mysteries and a secret of Pandora’s Box porportion. Told in three parts and two timelines, the present and Ruth’s past the novel starts out at a steady pace but speeds up exponentially as Sara expertly unfolds her bizarre story drip feeding facts until she leads her readers to one heck of an unexpected ending. Ruth and Catherine share the starring role in this unpredictable tale. Ruth is a hard read and an enigma and it will be a long time until readers/listeners will learn her entire twisted tale while Catherine is more of an open book and readers will most likely change their minds about these women often during the story. Fans of cat and mouse, psychological thrillers, strong women protagonists and authors like JT Ellison and Hank Phillipi Ryan and this exceptional author will find this novel impossible to put down.

Narration:
Kate Mara does a bang up job of narrating both mother and daughter and all the other players in the novel.

It’s always been mother and daughter Ruth and Catherine Sterling against the world then as Catherine is just about to start her new life Ruth starts showing signs of dementia and Catherine decides she wants to stay and take care of her mother. But when Catherine stars looking into her mother’s illness it becomes clear that the past Ruth had carefully painted is full of holes and Ruth is keeping secrets leaving Catherine wondering who her mother really is. Ruth’s attempts to keep Catherine in the dark about her past is beginning to unravel and she’ll do anything to keep her secrets buried deep.

 

About the author:
Sarah Pekkanen is the #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of four novels of suspense including THE GOLDEN COUPLE and THE WIFE BETWEEN US, and the solo author of the thriller GONE TONIGHT, will be published Aug. 1, 2023. Colleen Hoover says it is "Riveting, original and powerful. I'm a huge fan of Sarah Pekkanen's books, and GONE TONIGHT is her best yet!"

Sarah is also the author of eight USA Today and internationally-bestselling solo novels: THE OPPOSITE OF ME, SKIPPING A BEAT, THESE GIRLS, THE BEST OF US, CATCHING AIR, THINGS YOU DON'T SAY, THE PERFECT NEIGHBORS and THE EVER AFTER. Her books have been translated into dozens of languages.
In her free time, Sarah is a dedicated volunteer for rescue animals and serves as Ambassador for RRSA India, working hands-on to vaccinate and heal street dogs in Anand, India. She also volunteers weekly for a horse rescue group in Maryland, mucking stalls and helping mistreated horses heal.
Sarah lives just outside of Washington, D.C. with her family. Please follow Sarah on Facebook and Instagram @sarahpekkanen and visit www.sarahpekkanen.com