No Time for Goodbye by Linwood Barclay Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of No Time for Goodbye
Book Review: Now one of my favorite authors!
Summary: 5 Stars
I read ALOT and I am always looking for new great authors and books that will keep me interested. I tend to get bored very easily and the way a book is written along with the plot evolution are very important to me. I can normally tell a few chapters in if the book will hold my interest long enough to continue. I like simple writing styles and authors who are especially good at creating suspense and keeping me reading. I came across author Linwood Barclay when searching for more authors like Brian Freeman (another of my favorites). I am so happy Linwood Barclay's name came up. I started with his first suspense thriller "No Time For Goodbye" and literally read it in two days because I could not stop. I just HAD to find out what happened. It is hard to find books this good and after I finished it, I promptly went on Amazon and purchased all of this authors other thrillers. None of his books have disappointed me. In fact, I am only saddened by the fact that there are not more of them!Book Review: Ok read
Summary: 3 Stars
I read all the great reviews and decided to read this book, while there where parts where I could not put this down... I think I would describe it as a Danielle Steele of mysteries, it's ok to read, but a totally silly and unbelievable plot..that said..an ok read
Book Review: One of the best thrillers I have read!
Summary: 4 Stars
I don't read thrillers that much. Mainly this is because most of them seem to provide just senseless excitement and lack actual plotline. No Time for goodbye not only raises the bar for thrillers, its also an intelligently written book. Its not just about momentary adrenaline rush, its very well-written too. The robotic quality that so many thrillers have is lacking here, its very human.
The novel is gripping and intriguing. It proceeds at breakneck speed. When I had started reading it, I had not slept properly for 2 days. But once I started on it, I didn't need caffeine to stay awake. The plot served as caffeine for me! No Time for Goodbye deals with the most terrifying thing that can happen to any human. "What If .." - we are so scared of these two words. Linwood Barclay has delved deep into one of the most common fears of the human psyche. What if one day everyone whom you love just disappears, like they had never existed? What if you are left all alone , with so many questions unanswered? The "not knowing" is worse than the "knowing" itself. "What if.."...scary, huh?
Fourteen years old, Cynthia, causes her parents much trouble staying out late at night, disobeying and fighting. One night, there's a huge fight after Cynthia's father discovers her in a car with her boyfriend who is another troublemaker. Cynthia storms into her bedroom, shuts the door and drifts off to sleep. Next morning when she comes downstairs, there is noone there. She tries to convince herself that there must be some other rational explanation but the realization dawns soon...her father, mother and brother have gone without a trace.... 25 years later, their disappearance is still a mystery and it haunts Cynthia's every waking hour. Married with an 8 year old daughter, she is an overprotective mother, a worrier. She still yearns to know what happened to her family. As a last resort, she decides to appear on a reality show called Deadline in a desperate attempt to find her family.
What follows is complete chaos, as shocking truths are discovered which turn Cynthia's world upside down. I felt that Cynthia's trauma, the effect of her family's disappearance has been well-described. We feel for her and sympathize with her. Its stuff of nightmares - all our loved ones vanishing and leaving us behind.... No Time for goodbye was exciting, engrossing and edge-of-the-seat. But it was also an emotional ride. Somewhere while reading the novel, we all will say to ourselves- "what if something similar happens to me?" The very prospect is frightening!
The character development was great too. The author did not compromise with the characters just to add to the action. The readers will genuinely care about the characters. We feel what they are feeling - grief, love, loss, fear and so on. We become involved with the characters. As the novel twists and turns , it sucks you right in and you are hooked until the last page.
Overall:
Intense suspense and brilliant writing.
Recommended?
Yes! Especially if you are bored with thrillers that just provide momentary adrenaline rush.
Book Review: Page Turner!
Summary: 5 Stars
I thought this book was amazing, I couldn't put it down! What a suspenseful mystery, right til the end. Read it!Book Review: Picking Up The Pieces
Summary: 4 Stars
NO TIME FOR GOODBYE starts as the average teenager's dream come true - a 14-year-old girl wakes up after a fight with her family to find that they've disappeared without a trace. The next 300 pages consists of her attempts, 25 years later, to determine what happened and her husband's attempts to help her deal with her past.
Refreshingly for a mystery, this story unspools in surprising, interesting ways. I wasn't able to guess what would happen 100 pages, or even 50 pages, ahead. While Linwood Barclay is a somewhat repetitive and formulaic author, the story told is so intricate that literary flaws can be forgiven. The characters are interesting, varied and well-drawn, and you're never quite sure whom to trust or what to believe.