No Time for Goodbye
by Linwood Barclay
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Book Reviews of No Time for Goodbye
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.
Book Review: Finally a book that kept my interest!
Summary: 4 Stars
There are few times when I start a new author that I can stay focused in the first book I read by them. This is definately one of them. I admit, the plot intrigued me even before I began to read it and it was on my To Be Read list for a long time. I got it from a book swap site and read it within a week. Fantastic! I really like that the story is told from the husbands point of view. A nice twist on perspectives. There are some decent surprises that I didn't see coming which always makes it nice for a vetran mystery reader to have. Definately recommendable, definately will want to read another by this author and definately a book that I didn't want to stop reading. Well done.Book Review: Not his best book...
Summary: 3 Stars
Well, I must say that I was a little disappointed after finishing this book. I read Barclay's two most recent novels and I was fully prepared to be blown away by this _Home Alone_-like premise and Barclay's signature wit and humour. And while the premise was excellent, its execution was more predictable that I had imagined. It was, in a word, disappointing. His other books had much stronger P.O.V.s and plots. This one really reminded me of a violent book version of the comedy _Eulogy_. I already purchased his Zack Walker series and I sincerely hope that they are more impressive than this one. It is so rare to go backwards in a writer's career and be so disappointed...Book Review: Wow, Awesome! You Gotta read this one!
Summary: 5 Stars
This was the best book I have read in a LONG time! I will be looking for all this author's other books right away. I read it in one long day, about 12 hrs straight through. I couldn't stand the suspense and skipped ahead to read the last 3 pages and actually that didn't really give away the surprise ending. He did a wonderful job of portraying just how screwed up this teenager became thinking her whole family might have abandoned her, and how awful it would be NOT knowing exactly what did happen to her family. Okay, so some parts weren't perfect--the family's reaction to Tess's death was a little like Oh well, but all in all, I give this book a 98% perfect score!Book Review: BETTER THAN I'D EXPECTED
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm glad that the negative reviews on Amazon UK (which set their own standard for unreadability) did not deter me from reading this thriller, which is well-crafted and absorbing. Without giving anything away there are several strands which provide what it's fashionable to call a social commentary; the television exposé, the faux psychic, the withdrawn but creative schoolkid, and the soft-hearted thug, to name but four. Of course you can pick holes in the plot if you so choose, but the same is true of Raymond Chandler novels, and I find it significant that the people who criticise on that count never specify just what flaws they've found.