Disclosure: I received a free book from the publisher. Opinions shared are mine.

Laura has had a very, very bad week.  In the past few days, she’s been told that she was dead (via Facebook and a newspaper obituary), had issues with her boss, and can’t figure out if her boyfriend is a rapist.  If she had a bit more common sense, she might have been able to stop some of this mess before it started, but our girl just doesn’t clue in until the very final pages.  I Want You Gone by Miranda Rijks touts itself as a psychological thriller with a nerve-shredding twist.  It shredded my nerves alright, but only out of sheer frustration.

The first third of the story was pretty interesting.  Despite the multitude of characters to keep up with, I liked the way the author drew in various story threads to set up the web.  The main character, Laura, seemed like an average woman.  She was like someone I might know from work, trying to focus on her career after an unexpected divorce.

When the first unusual activity started happening, it seemed like it could have been overlooked as a mistake or even a strange coincidence.  As the weird events piled up, however, you’d think she would have contacted law enforcement.  If I ticked off on my fingers all the crazy things that happened to Laura, I’d quickly run out of hands.

The story isn’t bad. It’s just tedious.  We’re exposed to every single thought that runs through Laura’s dull mind.  It wasn’t at all difficult to figure out who was at the root of the problem.  All I really wanted to know was the WHY, and it took forever to get there.

I would have loved an epilogue at the end of the book just to see what happened next.  There were a lot of areas in Laura’s life that were wrecked as a result of her trials, and the story needed some closure in that respect.