{"id":89779,"date":"2025-10-19T01:52:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T01:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/89779\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T01:52:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T01:52:19","slug":"gone-before-goodbye-review-purewow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/89779\/","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":89780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[288,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-89779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}