Sé que estás allí

by Laura Brodie, Magdalena Palmer (Translator)

Ésta es la historia de Sarah, una mujer de treinta y nueve años que pierde a su marido en las aguas de un río cercano a una pequeña ciudad, en Estados Unidos. Unas semanas después de su desaparición, empieza a verlo en todas partes: en el supermercado, en el jardín de su casa, en la calle… Y, desde luego, piensa que se ha vuelto loca. Sus amigas le dicen que es normal, que forma parte del duelo… pero ¿y si hubiera otra explicación? Al fin y al cabo, no encontraron su cadáver… ¿Y si no es un fantasma y sigue vivo? ¿Y si ha planeado volver a su vida? Sé que estás allí es una inolvidable novela que te hará dudar de tu propio criterio.

Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Contemporary, Romance, Novels, Book Club, Chick Lit

336 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

I was born in Columbus, Ohio, with the name Laura Ann Fairchild. My earliest memories come from Seattle, Washington, where my family lived in the Magnolia neighborhood near the Puget Sound. I loved the deep, rainy colors of Seattle; one of my dreams is to buy a summer house on the Olympic peninsula.

At age eight, my family moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, where I stayed through high school, spending most of my time writing poetry, playing tennis, and earning money as an amateur violinist. After graduating from Broughton High School in 1982, I went to college at Harvard, and lived in Cabot House with a group of eight talented and diverse women who inspire me to this day. Hello to all my roommates!

My favorite class was a poetry workshop with Seamus Heaney, and I graduated with a degree in English in 1986. While at Harvard, I played violin with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, touring in Russia, Europe and Asia. On an orchestra tour I met my future husband, trumpeter John Brodie. We married after my graduation, and lived in Washington, DC, where I worked on campaign finance reform for Common Cause.

In 1988 we moved to Lexington, VA, so that John could take a job as band director at the Virginia Military Institute. I commuted to Charlottesville to work on a PhD at the University of Virginia, and with the help of a dissertation fellowship from the American Association of University Women and a Woodrow Wilson Women’s Studies Grant, I wrote a dissertation focused on widows in English literature. Since that time, all of my writing has been tied to women’s studies. My favorite chapter from that dissertation was on husbands who fake their deaths in order to spy on their wives, and that inspired my recent novel, The Widow’s Season.

My eldest daughter, Julia, was born just as I was finishing graduate school. From there, I began part-time teaching at various local colleges, and I started my first book, Breaking Out: VMI and the Coming of Women. The book covered the transition to coeducation at America’s last all-male military college. I served on VMI’s executive committee for coeducation, and taught a few courses for VMI’s English department while researching the book, which gave me an insider’s view of the Institute’s unique culture. The book was published by Pantheon (2000) and Vintage (2001) and was featured on NPR’s The Diane Rehm Show.

During the three years while the book was in progress, I welcomed two more daughters into the world, Rachel and Kathryn, and I began teaching steadily at Washington and Lee University. My next book, The Widow’s Season, won the Pirate’s Alley/Faulkner Society’s 2005 prize for Best Novel-in-Progress. On June 2, 2009, that novel will be published by Berkley Books, a Penguin imprint.

My latest project is a memoir of one year that I spent homeschooling my oldest daughter, Julia, when she was ten. I wrote about the ups and downs of our year in the cover article for the March 2007 issue of Brain,Child magazine. That article led to my third book, Love in a Time of Homeschooling: A Mother and Daughter’s Uncommon Year. Look for it from Harper in April, 2010.

Reviews

[Karen · Rating 3 out of 5]

This story shares the struggle of a widow whose husband has died.

Or has he?

Is this a ghost story?

Or something more?

[Lynn · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was amazing! I have reread the ending twice to grasp it. It is the story of Sarah, an English professor who wants nothing more than to be a mother, and her husband David who is a well liked doctor on a college campus. After several miscarriages, Sarah and David start to fall apart. While on a kayak trip, David goes missing in a storm. While his personal belongings and kayak are recovered, David's body never is. Desperate to go on with her life, Sarah gives in and has a memorial service. But she starts to see David and starts to question, did he really die in the storm? When he appears in their front yard on Halloween night, Sarah invites him in. David tells her his tale.

Brodie does an amazing job of luring the readers into the lives of these characters. The ending snapped the story closed like a steel door and left me asking, "Did that really happen?" Her story is so rich you don't see the ending coming until it right before you.

It is a wonderful read. And it will stay with me for a long time.

And if you read this book, contact the author, Laura Brodie. Our book club Skyped with her and it was wonderful! She provided lots of details for us and answered our questions. She is so down to earth. I encourage all book clubs to connect with her to have the same experience. Our group hasn't rallied around a book like this in a long time and it was great to see it!

[Bianca Coppens · Rating 3 out of 5]

Leest vlot maar geen wow gevoel

[Julia Sarene · Rating 1 out of 5]

I do read a lot. And this might win the award of most stupidest story I've ever read.
It's made to look like someting of the Nicholas Sparks kind. But the author tried to put some scary "goosebump moments" in too.

One big rant spicked with spoilers:
So, you think you bought a romantic/sad book? Then why are there parts in here, were the main charactee is standing inside her veranda doors and thinking how it would look, if bloody hands would run down them, like in a horror movie. Or later on, she thinks her lover has been killed. Does she call the police? Nooo, of course not! She rather goes there alone in the dark to make sure.
Right inside the flat her feet meet some "warm fluids". Blood???!!

1)If I actually would be dumb enough to go to a crimescene on my own, I would sure as hell put on the lights. And just a minimum amount of light would show it's water and no blood...
2) She got there, after who she thinks murdered her lover has visited her in the woods. So when she gets there, the murder would have been hours earlier. How long do you think blood stays wet and warm? <_<
3) The water is still warm. He left the day earlier for a business trip. Just how long does that dishwater keep on washing and pumping out more warm water? And if it did just go on doing that, wouldn't the whole flat be flooded now...?

Such scenes did not produce any suspense for me (and I'm usually rather easily scared), but just made me roll my eyes at that stupid main character. Who in their right mind would flee from a murder - right into the dark woods...

And that stupid, completely unrealistic plot!!!!
Her husband dies, and she sees his "ghost"?
Three months later he comes back, telling her he hasn't been dead, but rather needed a time out.
Or is he really dead, and she is just imagening it all?
Then she starts an affair with her BROTHER IN LAW. Three MONTHS after her husbands death and she beds his brother???
But all right, to each their own..

But the bed scene... He gives her a small vial with chocolate, and then completely covers her body with it (must be a really big vial <_< ), and when he just starts to lick the chocolate from her, and things start to get "hot" she sees her -dead?- husband outside the window looking in. First she wants to push her lover away, but then she rather closes her eyes, and lets him go on - in her marital bed, and lets her -dead?- husband watch... WTF??

Oh and for the topic of miscarriage. This a really serious topic.
But her having her brother in law knocking her up, and then realising just how much she has obssessed about it all - it just feels like the author tries too hard to show what is right and what is not. I don't need a book like this to shove "wisdom" down my throat.

And that's not even half of what annoyed me about this book. It's simply awful. I'd like to give -5 stars

[Jazmin Quinci · Rating 1 out of 5]

Spoiler Alert!!!! Warning!!!

Hated this book! She's a good writer, great word play, grammatically speaking, but this story was such a mess and so wrong on so many levels it's hard to even conceive of such crap. Granted its fiction, ok fine but come on banging your brother in law while the spirit of your husband watches from a window so you intensify the sex cause he is watching?? Is it a dream was she imaging him and trying to punish him for dying and/or that he left her purposely to start a new life and abandoned her although he disappears without a trace after going kayaking and a storm hits? Who knows...The author never clarified whether she was hallucinating or he lingered. It was left to the reader to decide after muddling through chapter after chapter of who what where and whys. Also, a shopping spree while the your dead husbands spirit lingers in a cabin? Yet she describes the couple having dinners together. Convoluted piece of shit. Marriage is hard but when one goes missing no one is that cold to the presumed dead/missing person to live in such a perpetual state of selfish "me me me" and blame especially when not knowing if your loved one suffered in the end or could be out there somewhere dying ... unless there was never love and/ or an ounce of compassion in that human soul. In this book that wasn't the case, she was angry, bitter and confused. He's missing and all she does is cast blame on his failings never taking an ounce of responsibility. Stupidly written like a bad soap opera.

I rarely take to bashing books out loud but I bash this book each chance I get. I'm an avid reader and rarely do I spend my time writing scathing reviews but this book justifies it. :-)

Maybe it's because I spent two years of my life not knowing if my husband would get killed overseas and if I'd have to identify his body. I'm sure no I know that's why I hate this book because stupid me decided to read it while he was in Afghanistan. Was just left disgusted and waste of my money. I bought it used on eBay and that brought tears to my eyes that I spent over 99 cents. I cried alright, cried over that I clicked "buy now". ;-)

[Robin · Rating 1 out of 5]

I haven't read a book in a long time that I've disliked this much. The story just seemed to drag on and on until it reached an awful and disappointing ending.

[Shazara Molins · Rating 3 out of 5]

Con el prólogo había pensado que se trataba de un Thriller y no, es un libro de ficción contemporánea.

Va sobre el duelo de llegar a cierta edad y no haber cumplido con las expectativas y sobretodo el duelo de perder a tu pareja en el peor momento de su relación.

En cuanto a los personajes Daniel es condescendiente con Sarah todo el tiempo y a pesar que al final si me hizo llorar un poco, tengo que admitir que su relación no era la mejor.

Y Sarah yo también me habría comido a Nate 😅🤣 es más, si este libro fuera un romance me habría encantado que terminaran juntos 👌🏻

[Ale Rivero · Rating 4 out of 5]

En realidad no esperaba que me sorprendiera, pero a pesar de intuir el final, me ha gustado cómo ha desarrollado la historia la autora.
Creo que la vida de Sarah a lo largo de los meses que suceden es un constante reconocimiento y aprendizaje de lo que tenía, perdió y puede crear a futuro.
Creo que es un thriller suave, tiene misterio y suspenso en bajo porcentaje, es más bien el día a día en la vida de sus protagonistas, aunque con un desaparecido en medio 🤷🏼‍♀️
Creo que es un libro que entretiene a la par que enseña algunas cosas.

[Jule · Rating 4 out of 5]

- Hörbuchrezension -
Laura Brodie erzählt in ihrem Roman „Ich weiß, du bist hier“ wie sich Sarahs Leben nach dem tragischen Tod ihres Mannes entwickelt.
Sarahs Mann David ist vor drei Monaten gestorben. Doch dann sieht sie ihn im Supermarkt stehen. Immer wieder begegnet sie ihm und schließlich spricht er sie an Halloween an. Seine Leiche wurde nie gefunden. Könnte er also noch leben, ist er ein Geist oder entstammt er Sarah Fantasie?
Zur Geschichte:
Anfangs zieht sich die Geschichte etwas hin. Sarah trauert und hängt ihren Gefühlen und Gedanken nach. Einige Zeit lang passiert nicht viel, doch dann taucht David auf, ganz unvermittelt. Sarah (und mit ihr der Hörer) fängt an zu zweifeln. Lebt David vielleicht noch? Seine Leiche wurde schließlich nie gefunden…
Solche Situationen tauchen im Folgenden vermehrt auf. Schließlich ist man sich gänzlich unsicher ob David nun lebt oder nicht. Brodie versteht es ausgezeichnet den Hörer im Ungewissen zu lassen. Diese bleibt dann auch bis zum Schluss bestehen und wird erst ganz kurz vor dem Ende aufgelöst.
Gelungen finde ich auch Sarahs Entwicklung. Anfangs ist sie eine bedrückte, unglückliche Ehefrau, die mit dem Tod ihres Mannes beginnt, über ihr eigenes Leben und Handeln nach zu denken.
Dem Zuhörer wird vor Augen geführt, dass das Ende des Einen, den Neuanfang des Anderen bedeuten kann. Eine Nachricht, die zum Nachdenken über das eigene Leben anregt.
Zum Hörbuch:
Andrea Sawatzki versteht es, eine anfangs wenig selbstbewusste Frau zu sprechen und Sarah mit der Zeit einen gefestigteren Ton zu geben. Sie setzt ihre Stimme gefühlvoll und abwechslungsreich ein.
Besonders schön fand ich, wie Andrea Sawatzki die Nachbarin Margret sprach. Sie bekam eine tiefe, schwere Stimme, die ihr etwas Mütterliches verlieh. Sogleich hatte ich das Bild einer liebevollen, etwas untersetzten Frau im Kopf.
Die männlichen Stimmen wurden meist gut umgesetzt, nur ab und zu gerieten sie etwas ins Stocken, was aber nicht weiter störte, denn Frauenstimmen überwiegen in dieser Geschichte.
Insgesamt hat Andrea Sawatzki „Ich weiß, du bist hier“ eine ganz besonders Atmosphäre der Unsicherheit und des langsamen Entwickelns gegeben. Meiner Meinung nach passt ihre Stimme ausgezeichnet zur Thematik des Romans und auch zur Protagonistin.
Mein Fazit:
Das Hörbuch hat mit 4 CDs, das sind 324 Minuten (ca. 5 ½ Stunden), genau die richtige Länge. Man kann es entspannt hören und bekommt eine interessante und später auch spannende Geschichte geboten. Als Buch hätte ich die Geschichte nicht unbedingt lesen müssen, sie aber mit solch einer tollen Stimme vorgelesen zu bekommen, war ein schönes Erlebnis.

[Brina · Rating 4 out of 5]

In Laura Brodie’s Debütroman „Ich weiß, du bist hier“ geht es um die Gefühlswelt von Sarah, die ihren Ehemann David beim Kajakfahren verliert. Obwohl seine Leiche nicht gefunden wird, wird David für tot erklärt.
Doch dann sieht Sarah ihn immer wieder an verschiedenen Orten. Es scheint, als sei er ihr ständiger Begleiter. Aber kann es sein, dass ihre Phantasie ihr einen Streich spielen will?

„Ich weiß, du bist hier“ ist eine emotionale Geschichte, die mich stellenweise sehr mitgenommen hat. Sarahs Gefühle und Gedanken werden so gut beschrieben, dass man sich gleich mit ihr verbunden fühlt. Ihre Ängste, Gedanken, Trauer und Wut wirken so authentisch, dass man von der ersten Seite an mit ihr leidet.

Die Geschichte liest sich spannend und verwirrte mich bis zum Schluss, da ich nie genau wusste, was nun Phantasie und was Realität ist. Dadurch wurde das Ende umso überraschender dür mich. Zwar dachte ich zunächst, dass das Ende eher vorhersehbar ist, habe mich dann aber doch getäuscht.

Das Cover ist wunderschön. Vor allem die Farben gefallen mir sehr. Durch den Stuhl erinnert das Cover stellenweise an die Bücher von Nicholas Sparks, der auf vielen seiner Cover ebenfalls einen Stuhl hat.

Der Klappentext ist gelungen und liest sich spannend.

„Ich weiß, Du bist hier“ ist eine wunderschöne Geschichte, die nur so vor Ideen und Emotionen sprüht. Ich hoffe, dass man noch sehr viel von Laura Brodie lesen wird.

Wer Marc Levy, Nicholas Sparks und Cecelia Ahern mag, wird dieses Buch lieben.

[Leslie · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book begins, “Sarah McConnell’s husband had been dead three months when she saw him in the grocery store."

Reading the back cover of the new novel by Laura Brodie, I thought it would be a ghost story; but it's actually much more. It's also a romance, has an element of suspense and plot twists and turns, all made thoroughly enjoyable by Laura Bordie's beautiful writing style. Her descriptions make the people and places come to life.

In the story, Sarah McConnell is at a turning point in her life. She is 39 years old and a recent widow when she begins to see her dead husband. Her friends dismiss it as grief, but the body was never found. Was he still alive? Was that really him? Sarah begins to see him more often, talk with him and discuss all the things they should have discussed during the years of their marriage. She begins to dwell on the many paths not taken for either of them, the children they never had, the career choices they made. But who is she talking to? Is he alive, is he a ghost or is she having a nervous breakdown?

This book kept me captivated until the very end. I found myself liking the character and empathizing with her, even though I would not have done some of the things she did.To say any more about the plot would spoil the story. I, for one, am looking forward to future novels from Ms. Brodie.

[Kristin · Rating 3 out of 5]

A woman's husband dies in a flash flood, although no body is recovered. She begins to "see" his ghost as she grieves, and the reader travels with her on her healing journey while trying to unravel the mystery of "Is he dead or not?"

I love this author's style, the clever way that she joins words together for maximum impact. Unfortunately the story becomes too implausible too early on. Either the husband is alive and somehow manages to elude notice by everyone in their small, college town -- while shopping at the grocery store, attending his own memorial service, and stalking his wife at home. Or the wife, who otherwise seems very normal, is having a series of massive psychotic breaks where she hallucinates in great detail spending days at a time with her ghost of a husband, a ghost who somehow manages to produce new artwork for a show, break and enter, and vandalize. Neither scenario seemed credible to me, and I felt that either outcome would be unsatisfying, which it was.

[Susan · Rating 2 out of 5]

I so wanted to like this book. It sounded like a great mystery read, but in reality, it wasn't. I did not like the switching back and forth of "Is he dead or is he not?"

Also the main character, Sarah, was not very likeable in my opinion. She wasn't really fleshed out. The author mainly focused on her losses and disappointments. We never heard about any of the good things that happened in her life or marriage. I mean they were married a long time before the miscarriages, didn't she ever have any good memories of them together before then?

She seemed so cold and callus about her husband's death and disappearance. And then the fling with the brother in law was so loathsome and uncomfortable to me.

The only good parts of the book were when she was with her friend and the other widowers.

I was sorely disappointed in the ending and it just seemed so abrupt.

[Joanne Allen · Rating 3 out of 5]

I won this book on GoodReads.com. The author signed on the title page and also enclosed a personal note for me. I was really pleased.
I generally liked this book. It was about a woman whose husband dies in a kayaking accident. The body is never found, and then he starts to visit her. At first we are guessing whether he is her imagination, a ghost, or perhaps her husband never died. I didn’t like how casually she falls into a sexual relationship with her brother-in-law. She questions herself about it, but not for moral reasons. I could relate to her in other aspects though, and I was curious to know how it would all end up. I was not disappointed, the end tied everything up neatly, exactly how I had hoped.

[Chloe · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm at a bit of a loss how to review this book. On one hand, I really enjoyed the mystery of it all, the whole "is he a figment of her imagination or is he real? (After all - they didn't find a body)". I kept swapping from "yes he is" to "no he isn't" and I loved that we really didn't find out for sure until the end.

But, on the other hand, there were pages I skimmed plainly because it got a little boring. The main character wasn't overly likeable, but I'm OK with that. I don't really believe I have to love the character to love the book.

It's certainly a different book to what I've read recently and that's always refreshing.

[elmarcapaginasbooks · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5
El final del libro me dejo con la boca abierta y con lágrimas en los ojos. Le puse una puntuación medianamente baja porque por momentos se hace bastante pesado de leer, pero la historia es muy original, los personajes están muy bien construidos y la trama bastante original, no se sabe que pasa hasta las ultimas 5 hojas.
una joven queda viuda tras perder a su marido que navegaba en un barco un día de tormenta, tres meses después lo comienza a ver en todas partes. ¿enloqueció o simplemente David esta vivo y algo le ocurrió?

[Dácil González · Rating 4 out of 5]

Comencé el libro buscando drama que ya me apetecía pero no lo he encontrado.
Es una novela sentimental sencillita que quizás se inclina más a los problemas en un matrimonio y la imposibilidad de una mujer por tener hijos y no lo que yo me esperaba, la muerte de su marido.

Pero aún así me lo he leído del tirón y me ha gustado mucho. La autora ha tenido el buen tino de dejar descolocado al lector en varias ocasiones.

[Grace · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sarah McConnell's husband had been dead three months when she saw him in the grocery store. Is it really him or is it her grief? His body has never been found, she is having a relationship with his brother, and is visiting with her husband at their cabin. Is he there or is she having a breakdown? You won't know until the last page.

[Brandie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was not what I expected at all - but it was really good and I enjoyed it!

[Lisi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read this while we were visiting NYC this week. Once you get ino it it's hard to put down.

[Carolyn · Rating 2 out of 5]

For every 100 pages of this book, my rating went down a star. Increasingly boring to read.

[AM · Rating 3 out of 5]

I wanted to like this book. I enjoyed this author’s memoir of homeschooling her daughter, so I borrowed this from the library to see what she could do with fiction.

As I began her novel, which is purportedly set in the Shenandoah Valley, I had fun trying to identify the town (“Jackson” = Lexington; “Hunter’s Draft” = Stuart’s Draft) and river (“Shannon” = Shenandoah, obviously) she was imagining. I wish she had just either gone with the real towns and places, or not mentioned the Shenandoah Valley at all and made that up too. Very minor quibble.

Brodie is an English professor at W&L, and she plays with literature and how it influences our perceptions of ourselves and our lives - an idea that appealed to me as a former English major and teacher. This whole novel was an exploration of the theme of widowhood across cultures and literature, specifically how we view them and their relationship to their dead husband (binding or freeing). She’s not a Christian, so I am not surprised necessarily that she didn’t engage with how the Bible views widows, but since she the author and she the protagonist are both located in the Bible Belt, that’s a huge part of the local culture that she’s ignoring. There’s a sense in which she does allude to the notion of the community’s responsibility to care for her (whatever that looks like in a modern context) and Levirate law (in which the brother-in-law provides children in his brother’s name for the widowed and economically disenfranchised woman), but I wasn’t sure that she was exploring those on purpose or if they were convenient plot points to show how Sarah is trying to move on emotionally. I’m thinking more of how the Bible doesn’t hold women to their husbands emotionally or sexually after death; in fact, it explicitly frees them to move on. But Brodie doesn’t let her widow wrestle with that at all, preferring the motifs of European feudalism and Eastern suttees to guide her exploration of the modern widow’s psyche.

Reactions to the plot itself...

Initially, I was intrigued by the thought of exploring a psyche so wounded by grief that she was hallucinating her husband at the grocery store. I would have been fine with a more literary novel that explored what it’s like to know you’re a little bit unstable because of the pain of loss and having to wrestle with the horror of that. That would have made a fascinating story!

And then when David shows up on Halloween, I found myself ready to go there too - although I didn’t like him one bit for his incredibly selfish choices. I couldn’t believe Sarah would let him get away with hiding out and living a lie, just so he could explore his artistic giftings. I wanted more of a reckoning between them about their marriage’s past and his current state of denial before either of them was willing to engage with their “new normal.” Again, I know Brodie’s not a Christian and I shouldn’t expect her to hold to a Christian view of marriage.

[Emilia Corbalán (amorxloslibros) · Rating 3 out of 5]

3/5⭐

"Pero dos cosas en la vida nunca podrían programarse: el amor y la muerte."

Sarah perdió a su marido hacia tres meses cuando comienza la lectura de esta historia, y la verdad que el principio engancha, desde el primer capítulo quedas totalmente intrigado y pensas: '¡guau! realmente parece que será una historia atrapante'. Y si bien lo es, le falto mucho para que, en mi opinión, sea una historia fascinante.

Nuestra protagonista se llama Sarah, una viuda joven, que debe lidiar con la muerte repentina de su marido David, que falleció presuntamente ahogado en el río, luego de que se desatara una tormenta cuando él estaba de excursión en su kayak. El libro está dividido en partes, a medida que vamos adentrándonos en la historia, los títulos de estas irán dándonos pistas sobre el estado de David. Sarah cree verlo en lugares, entonces la gran pregunta que nos haremos como lectores hasta el final de esta historia será: ¿estará vivo o realmente murió? Ya que no han encontrado su cuerpo desde el día del accidente. Y ya han pasado tres meses.

Sarah y David no tuvieron hijos, por lo que Sarah está viviendo sola. A veces se junta con su mejor amiga Margaret y otras veces es visitada por Nate, el hermano menor de David. Sarah también tiene una hermana, Anne, aunque no aparece mucho en esta historia, ya que ella vive en otra parte y tiene marido e hijos. Y es aquí en donde habrá un ingrediente para la historia que quiso ser picante pero que termino siendo un gran: WTF? *Alerta spoiler* Nate y Sarah se encaman juntos y a partir de ahí empezarán a verse y a hacerlo con cierta regularidad, y según esta historia siempre hubo atracción entre ellos, y la verdad es que es algo que me pareció un poco fuera de lugar, porque, o sea, amiga, es el hermano de tu marido, ¿me vas a decir que siempre estuviste colgada de él mientras formabas una vida con David?. Sin embargo, gracias a este enredo, es cuando realmente descubriremos qué está pasando con David.

El libro me causó algún que otro escalofrío y tiene sus partes de misterio que están bien llevadas, aún así creo que le faltó algo, no sabría decir qué. Porque es una historia buena y entretenida, pero lo único que me incitó a llegar al final fue el hecho de que quería saber cómo iba a terminar todo. Siento que Sarah fue un buen personaje pero a la vez algo monótono y un poco egoísta y más que sufrir la muerte de su marido, medio que le dio igual.

El libro se lee muy rápido y creo que fue porque, a pesar de todo, la autora logró mantener la intriga hasta el final. Aunque no creo que sea más que sólo una buena historia para pasar el rato, nada del otro mundo. Tal vez esperaba algo distinto pero tampoco me disgustó del todo. Y tampoco me sorprendió que fuera mas MEH que WOW.

[Bridgett Johnson · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was amazing! It is the story of Sarah who became a widow after her husband goes missing during a storm while out kayaking. His belongings were found however David's body was never recovered after the incident. Sarah has always wanted to be a mother and after several miscarriages, Sarah and David (husband) begin to fall apart. Sarah is desperate to move on with her life, Sarah struggles for a bit but eventually has a memorial service for David. Shortly after she starts to see David and starts to question, did he really die in the storm? But did he really? There are many instances where Sarah sees David's ghost?

Laura Brodie did an amazing job with this book she kept her readers wanting more and actually made you feel like you are a part of the story. The ending on the other hand was a shock because you feel like you know what might happen, but you really don't.
It was a great book, and it really captured what someone could possibly go through with the loss of a loved one. It is a book that I will most likely read again at some time.

I honestly think that she could add another book to the story. Heck this could make a series. I absolutely love her books.

Thank you, Laura Brodie, for a wonderful book.

[Derretida JB · Rating 3 out of 5]

Uff, me costó terminarlo.
La sinopsis, el título, la portada... todos esos componentes iniciales me atrajeron por lo prometedores que se veían pero con el inicio de las páginas y su paso el encanto se fue perdiendo.
Un poco más de la mitad del libro fue cuando me logró atrapar. Me emocioné en algunas partes y tuve muchas sospechas que poco a poco fueron resultando ciertas o falsas. Me gustó lo detallista que es la autora al describir las cosas pero algunas las sentí irrelevantes y de relleno. Aún así me gustó mucho el final y sentí paz.
La autora juega con nosotras en un ir y venir donde no sabes qué ocurre realmente, ¿hay locura, sueños, cosas paranormales o realidad? Uno no lo descubre realmente hasta llegar al final del camino.

[iva · Rating 2 out of 5]

Final predecible desde el momento que lees las primeras líneas.
Por momentos cansador de leerlo con todos los detalles que habían pero a veces eran necesarios para entender lo que sentia la protagonista.
Copie varias oraciones del libro que son geniales e ideas sobre como ver las situaciones. Me encantó los colores de la portada, llama mucho la atención con ese fondo del río y el muelle... ese aire tan misterioso.
La historia esta buena, lástima el fnal.

[Nelson Acosta · Rating 5 out of 5]

Laura Brodie nos cuenta la historia de Sarah, una muker que recientemente ha perdido a su marido en un accidente en un río cercano. Sin em bargo ella parece verlo constantemente, en el supermercado, en el jardín de su casa o en la calle, sin embargo, ¿Es esto realidad o su mente esta jugando con ella?.

[Moonlight · Rating 2 out of 5]

Me ha parecido una historia entretenida y fácil de leer, pero nada especialmente memorable. Quiere tener un aire misterioso que no consigue del todo por incoherencias argumentales carentes de lógica y coherencia. Bien llevada, podría haber sido una bonita novela, pero se queda en tierra de nadie.

[Moreninha · Rating 2 out of 5]

Bueno, pues esta no. No era lo que yo esperaba y lo que encontré no me hace recomendarla en absoluto. Tiene la virtud de no ser larga, pero no he conseguido conectar con la historia ni con los personajes.

[Valerie Cornide · Rating 3 out of 5]

Un relato que no sabe aprovechar el potencial de la base argumental que posee. Según comienzas, ya ves como Sarah (la protagonista) ha creído ver a su marido fallecido meses atrás. A partir de aquí, nos cuenta un poco como sucedió la muerte de su marido y en que otros sitios ha creído verlo,