Shanique’s Comments (group member since Mar 22, 2011)

Shanique’s comments from the Eleven Reader's Club group.

Overall I thought 'No Time For Good-bye' was an extremely captivating and exciting novel. It starts off with the main character Cynthia Bigge upsetting her father the night before her whole entire family vanish into thin air. 15 years later she has moved on with her life(she has a husband and child). Although she is still severely haunted by the shocking disappearance of her family. The story is narrated by Cynthia's husband who finds it difficult to live with his wife at times, but still supports her and tries to eliminate his suspicion about her lying about the things she starts to get paranoid about. For example a brown car Cynthia sees while walking her daughter to school, a hat that just appears on the kitchen table, and a call that has no proof of ever happening. But soon he himself starts to see things. For example a man watching their house at night,the private detective he hires goes missing and his wife's aunt is murdered after confiding in him a secret she has been keeping from Cynthia. In this novel different twists are thrown at you and the book becomes more and more captivating because you never know what exactly is going to happen next. You are kept guessing and trying to put the pieces together until the very end. Cynthia gets a mysterious email stating that; Its been long enough and the time will soon come. This made me very puzzled and kept me asking, what does that mean? What has been long enough? The time of which Cynthia has seen her family? What time will soon come? This novel kept me wanting more and more until finally all my questions and suspicions were answered and I knew the truth. I would definitely recommend this book to all teenagers who like mysteries and even those who do not like mysteries, because this book will catch you and you wont want to let go until you find out what happened. I found this a highly enjoyable and entertaining book, and I wouldn't hesitate to give Linwood Barclay another chance and read all books he has written.