Review: After I've Gone by Linda Green

After I've Gone by Linda Green
My rating: 4 of 5 stars



Twenty two year old Jess has found herself caught up in a living nightmare.She has just discovered condolence messages on her Facebook timeline from her Dad,her bff Sadie and other family members and people that she knows.It seems that in eighteen months time Jess will be killed in an accident.Is this a cruel online prank or a glimpse into her actual future?.

Amongst the posts are pictures of a gorgeous baby boy that she has not yet conceived.When the posts reveal that Jess`s death might not have been an accident after all,she finds herself caught in a confusing dilemma.If she changes the future to save her own life then the baby that she has fallen so deeply in love with Will never exist.

At the start of the story our heroine Jess is a very likeable character who has a wicked sense of humour and I loved the interactions between her and Sadie.As the story unfolds and she struggles of understand and believe what the posts are revealing and with other things that are happening in her life,the changes in her behaviour are scary and realistic.As a reader you like to try and sympathize with the main character but considering what she knew was going to happen,some of her actions were incredibly frustrating.

The story flowed well considering it was narrated by more than one character and set in the past,present day and the future.I liked the unique idea of using posts on Jess`s timeline to narrate the parts set in the future.The cast were a mixed bag of well developed,some likeable,some not so likeable characters although one character did redeem themselves a bit by the end of the story.

I thought the first part of the story was very intense and intreguing and my favourite parts of the book were the timeline chapters.Once a certain character is introduced its not hard to work out where the path of Jess`s life is going.Some elements of the story are left unexplained but then not everything in life is explainable.It's not a fast paced story but some parts are tense and intreguing.This is the first book that I have read by this author and it most definitely won't be my last.

Many thanks to Little Brown Books UK for a arc of this book via Netgalley in exchange for a honest review