Author(s): Holly Goddard Jones
Genre: Fiction/Mystery
Release Date: February 12, 1013
Publisher: Touchstone
Estimated Price: $24.99
I won this copy through a goodreads giveaway.
Thirteen-year-old Emily Houchens doesn’t have many friends. She finds more comfort playing make-believe in the woods near her house in Roma, Kentucky, than with her classmates, who find her strange and awkward. When she happens upon a dead body hidden in the woods one day, she decides not to tell anyone about her discovery—a choice that begins to haunt her.
Susanna Mitchell has always been a good girl, the dutiful daughter and wife. While her older sister Ronnie trolled bars for men and often drove home at sunrise, Susanna kept a neat house, a respectable job, a young daughter. But when Ronnie goes missing, and Susanna realizes that she’s the only person in Roma who truly cares about her sister’s fate, she starts to question her quiet life and its value.
The Next Time You See Me is the story of how one woman’s disappearance exposes the ambitions, prejudices, and anxieties of a small southern town and its residents, who are all connected, sometimes in unexpected ways. Emily; Susannah; Tony, a failed baseball star-turned-detective, aspiring to be the county’s first black sheriff; and Wyatt, a fifty-five-year-old factory worker tormented by a past he can’t change and by a love he doesn’t think he deserves. Their stories converge in a violent climax that reveals not just the mystery of what happened to Ronnie but all of their secret selves.
My Thoughts: It took forever for me to get into this book, and by the time I did I still had no connection to the characters. It just wasn't my cup of tea. Holly Goddard Jones is a good writer, this just wasn't a book I particularly liked. It was not awful in any way shape or form. I know lots of people who enjoy this genre and would adore this book.
The cover is beautiful, though confused me in the sense of season the story takes place. The cover shows fall but they talk about snow? It's not unheard of where I am from so I don't know why it slightly bugged me.
I can see why people would enjoy this book, so for you mystery lovers I think it is a Read It.
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