{"id":131237,"date":"2025-10-19T02:22:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T02:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/131237\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T02:22:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T02:22:19","slug":"gone-before-goodbye-review-purewow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/131237\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Gone Before Goodbye’ Review – PureWow"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I learned that Harlan Coben was teaming up with Witherspoon to write Gone Before Goodbye<\/a>, my interest was immediately pique. As a kid, I devoured Coben’s Mickey Bolitar series as well as some of his adult fiction before one particularly violent scene had me creeped out. I’m glad I decided to pick this book up, though. As a reader, my one weakness I try to hide behind my wall of classic literature is a love for murder mysteries. My guiltiest pleasure is not a Netflix<\/a> binge but starting a thriller at 9 p.m., snuggled in bed, and turning the last page at 3 a.m.<\/p>\n

Gone Before Goodbye<\/a> delivered on all fronts\u2014a deeply painful death, international machinations of the sinister medical variety, plot twists and enough red herrings to keep me guessing until I turned the last page. It was everything I expected from Coben as a writer, with the Hollywood spin on elite plastic surgery that could have only been imagined by someone who lives in an industry that breathes these procedures. <\/p>\n

While I found the novel highly entertaining, I was bothered by some POV changes I found rather inconsistent, a character who felt a little half-baked and a few murky details that still felt unclear by the time I turned the last page. But overall, it was a spectacular debut for Witherspoon and hallmark of Coben’s best work. The writing is crisp, clean and detailed, with a satisfying ending. Definitely worth a reading binge into the wee hours of the morning. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When I learned that Harlan Coben was teaming up with Witherspoon to write Gone Before Goodbye, my interest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[359,18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-131237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}