Now You See It: A Novel

Rating:
Summary: Now you don't.
Review: Through his wife's disappearance, David displays emotions that any of us would have. But after the first few chapters of the book, we're basically just living inside his head. I don't feel that is compelling enough to write an entire book about. By the end of the book (and thus, finding out the entire story), I was actually miffed that I wasted my time and money on this thing.

I bought this book after reading all the praise for it on Amazon.com (and in People magazine). I just wasn't impressed. I have read many books over the years and though this one had an interesting concept, the execution of it was horrible. After doing some investigating, I noticed that most of the people on Amazon that reviewed the book had reviewed only this book. Makes you wonder if they're somehow connected to the author. (She used to work for People magazine, as well, hence the apparent kudos from them.)

Rating:
Summary: Very engaging
Review: When David's wife disappears, he faces everyone's worst nightmare. His wife is gone without a trace, and all attempts to get to the bottom of the disappearance lead to dead ends. But the real success of Now You See It lies less in the mystery, and more in the psychological portrait of David's desperate uncertainty. David must contemplate many terrible possibilities, ranging from murder to the suggestion that she purposefully vanished. But the harder blow he must absorb is the idea that he will never, ever know what really happened. Lynn's exploration of this kind of bitter confusion and uncertainty is excellent and absorbing. I'll be ordering the next one as soon as it comes out.

Rating:
Summary: A Great Read
Review: When you sit down with a new author, you're never quite sure what to expect. Just a few pages into Allison Lynn's first book, I knew she'd be an author that I would turn to again. Her characters and their relationships are as real any you might know. It's Allison Lynn's ability to bring her characters to life, to make them seem as though you might have met them at a party last week, that makes the disappearance of Jessica all the more captivating. I turned each page with an increasing desire to learn not only more about what happened to the characters but also about the personalities and relationships that caused them to act as they did. Now You See It is a great read and I look forward to more books from the author.