Gone Too Soon, Melody Carlson
Gone Too Soon, Melody Carlson
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Gone Too Soon

Author: Melody Carlson

Narrator: Brittany Goodwin

Unabridged: 7 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/07/2019


Synopsis

An icy road. A car crash. A family changed forever. Hannah Josephson had always been the “perfect” daughter. Kiera couldn’t live up to her before, and she certainly can’t now that her older sister has died in a car accident. But the image she carried resentfully of Hannah is challenged when she finds her dead sister’s diary and begins to read. Apparently Hannah’s final year wasn’t as perfect as everyone thought. Caught in a pattern of blaming each other, the Josephson family is falling apart. Their father has left, their mother is mixing opiates and alcohol, little sister Maddie has been shipped off to spend the whole summer with their grandmother, and Kiera feels utterly alone with her grief and anger. A summer job helping at a park in a poor section of town provides a friend and a purpose. But it’s Hannah’s diary that fills her thoughts. For the first time in years, she feels close to the sister she’s lost. But can the knowledge she gleans about her possibly help her patch back together the family that seems determined to implode?

About Melody Carlson

Melody Carlson has written more than 200 books for teens, women, and children. Before publishing, Melody traveled around the world, volunteered in teen ministry, taught preschool, raised two sons, and worked briefly in interior design and later in international adoption. "I think real-life experiences inspire the best fiction," she says. Her wide variety of books seems to prove this theory.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Christy

3.5 stars

 Gone Too Soon is a YA novel following Kierra, a teenager who has recently lost her older sister. Her family is falling apart and she’s trying to get through it. We also get random chapters from her mother who is battling addiction. This book is on the heavy side, but the ending is hopeful......more

Gone Too Soon by Melody Carlson is about a seventeen year old girl that was gone too soon. Hannah Josephson died in a car accident on New Year’s Eve. Six months later the Josephson family is rapidly falling apart. Kiera Josephson is now sixteen years old who never felt she could live up to Hannah’s......more