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May 11, 2011

Vinaya rated it:

I had tears in my eyes at the end of this book. You know, the soft misty ones you get when you hear a particularly evocative piece of music, or trace the delicate brush strokes of a master artist? Gone, Gone, Gone was tender and moving in the same way as a snapshot in your mind of your first kiss.

I cannot believe I got a chance to read this book a full year before it is due to be released. Gone, Gone, Gone is my first Hannah Moskowitz book, and it has made me even more impatient for More...

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May 10, 2011

Jillian -always aspiring- rated it:

Note: I am sorry to everyone reading this, but this book doesn't come out until April 17th, 2012. However, if you can get your hands on an early reviewer copy, please read it. And everyone else who doesn't, mark your calendars for April 2012. I can almost guarantee you won't regret giving this book a try.

Confession: I hadn't read anything by Hannah Moskowitz before now. I know, I know. How could I not have read Moskowitz's debut novel Break? And I have absolutely no excuse for More...

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Jul 30, 2011

Hannah added it

I wrote this book. The main characters would want to be friends with you if they were real.

The Playlist:

1) The Animals Were Gone--Damien Rice
2) You Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will.--Bright Eyes
3) Sometime Around Midnight--The Airborne Toxic Event
4) Left Behind--Spring Awakening soundtrack
5) Across the Universe--The Beatles
6) To Be Alone With You--Sufjan Stevens
7) Overkill--Colin Hay
8) The Freshman--Jay Brannan
9) Forget More...

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Feb 21, 2012

Stephanie rated it:

There are so many great things about this book. How Hannah manages to cram them all into 272 pages is just amazing. After falling in love with Invincible Summer I was excited to read this. It's the first LGBT novel I've ever read so I didn't know what to expect. All I can say is that I loved it.

The Setting

This book takes place during the Beltway Sniper Shootings, almost exactly a year after 9/11. The story follows Craig and Lio while they deal with the aftermath of the More...

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Oct 02, 2011

Lauren rated it:

I really wasn't prepared for just how evocative this was. It's not a warning or a tribute, exactly. It's a story of a boy we've never met, in the aftermath of an event we all experienced. You should read it.

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Jan 05, 2012

Katya rated it:

Also found here: http://theninjareader.tumblr.com/post/15...

Melodrama is the bane of my existence.

I'm starting off on that note to express my state of mind towards books that recount dramatic events. We all know that quoting statistics about people starving to Death in Africa doesn't have the same impact on us as, say, the news of our neighbor dying of a heart attack and not being found for three days. Grand, dramatic deaths are horrible, but they don't affect me on the same More...

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Jun 30, 2011

Isamlq rated it:

Five cups of coffee and six hours later, I can safely say that I am a fan of Hannah Moskowitz'. The first book of hers I read was Invincible Summer. That I was a blubbering mess after is a tiny understatement. Gone, Gone, Gone leaves me feeling much the same way:

Lio and Craig, two characters who leave me really happy with their story… simple though it was. Craig and his thoughts on invincibility. Lio and his worries. YET they match even if both of them had to stomp on the other ever More...

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May 10, 2011

Mello rated it:

Okay, I think I've recovered enough to write a review.

The Good

Characters

I'll start with Craig.

Craig is not your typical gay boy. Firstly, he is black, which made me tingle with delight after being a first hand witness that if you're gay you can only be white and feminine. I really like what she did to that stereotype. To me, Craig wasn't very girly. He wasn't boyish either, oh God no, but he wasn't girly.

If you've read the Animorphs, he More...

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Aug 16, 2011

Aleeza added it

So initially, after first reading the book, I'd given the book one star. But the more I thought about it, the more I felt that it wasn't fair. No, I didn't like the book, but that's more because this really was not my kind of book, not because the book was really all that bad.

So I'm removing the rating. Not that it matters that much, I guess, but still.

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May 30, 2011

Phoebe rated it:

I meant to hold off on starting Hannah Moskowitz's 2012 release Gone, Gone, Gone until later. After all, I'm in possession of quite a sizable pile of books to review, and Gone, Gone, Gone won't be released for a year—it seemed prudent to save it for another time. But it called out to me from my eReader on a long bus ride, and once I started this terse, powerful little novel about two boys falling in during the DC sniper shootings, I just couldn't quit. Moskowitz's impactful prose, transmitted vi More...

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Feb 22, 2012

Maja rated it:

It wasn’t easy to organize my thoughts on this book. It’s been a while since I’d added something to my ‘books that changed me’ shelf, and although Gone, Gone, Gone didn’t affect me as strongly as Raw Blue, for example, I’m pretty sure it’ll stay with me for a very long time. Truthfully, for a while I even thought my rating would be four or four and a half stars, but then I decided that I need to make it abundantly clear that this is a book everyone needs to read, and that it’s likely to change a More...

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May 14, 2011

ABookVacation rated it:

This is a truly beautiful novel. The amount of depth Moskowitz pours into her characters is amazing, and I am in awe of Moskowitz’s sheer writing capabilities. I read this novel in one sitting; it was that good. Originally drawn to the novel due to its relation to the Beltway Snipers that ravaged the Maryland/D.C./Virginia areas, I was floored by the intensity of the characters, Craig and Lio, as they struggle to make sense of their tumultuous lives while also dealing with the anxiety of the More...

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Aug 15, 2011

Heather rated it:

I feel guilty for being the first person to write a review that isn't glowing, but this book just wasn't for me. I felt like nothing really happened and there were a lot of scenes that seemed unnecessary. I didn't understand the purpose of many of the characters, such as Mansfield and Amelia, who had maybe one or two scenes each. I thought that Lio's dead brother and the cancer-kid angst was just a cheap way of giving him an excuse to be moody.
One of the things I liked about INVINCIBLE S More...

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May 10, 2011

Zoe rated it:

This book left me speechless. Over the past two years, Hannah Moskowitz has climbed up to the top of my “favorite authors” list and Gone, Gone, Gone has secured her a tight spot up there. I’ve said this many times and I’ll say it again- Hannah knows how to write from a boy’s perspective so well, it’s amazing. Gone, Gone, Gone is told from the point of view of two gay teen boys during DC sniper shootings. This book isn’t just about the DC sniper shootings. The two main characters Craig and Lio ar More...

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Jul 02, 2011

Gabry rated it:

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay. 4.5

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Aug 05, 2011

Karla rated it:

I love gay boys, it's true. Really, who doesn't? Exactly, my point. So, when I read the blurb for this, I was super excited.

Well, to be honest, I was uber-excited about reading this book long before IS came out because, let's face it people, Hannah knows how to write characters with voice. She grabs you, digs your heart out with a spoon, and then chucks it over her shoulder, all the while laughing gleefully, and of course, you come back again and again begging for more. At lea More...

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Jul 21, 2011

Kathrina rated it:

I am always excited to run across a title that approaches subject matter that could be just the material that helps a teen define their own identity. Be it racial identity, sexual identity, echoes of their own struggles and traumas that rarely surface in mainstream media, books that broach controversial topics may be the books that save lives. So much media geared at teens do enough damage by describing images of beauty, popularity, and attractiveness in superficial and impossible ways that no t More...

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May 11, 2011

Ceilidh rated it:

Hannah Moskowitz has been on my TBR radar since her first book so the opportunity to read an ARC of her third book a year before its official release, thanks to Simon & Schuster’s Galley Grab system, was too good to pass up.

Teenagers are frequently accused of being shallow and simple creatures. The problems of the typical adolescent are usually categorised into the clichéd worries over school, family and sex, and are all too often used as oversimplified forms of characterisation in More...

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May 15, 2011

Sarah rated it:

I'll start by saying, "FINALLY!" I've been in a book slump lately, Gone, Gone, Gone pulled me right out of it. Thank you, Hannah Moskowitz! So, I've never read a book where the main character(s) are homosexual. It honestly wasn't that much different from reading about a heterosexual relationship, and I really enjoyed it.

I absolutely adored Lio and Craig. I felt a connection to both of them because they were real. Hannah knows how to take you on that emotional roller coaster h More...

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Oct 17, 2011

Helene rated it:

Gone, Gone, Gone has all of the trademarks that Hannah Moskowitz is becoming known for as an author: character-driven, heart-felt, a focus on internal dialogues and personal relationships.

I couldn't wait to get my hands on this. And I'm SO glad I did. GGG is a bit of a ramble compared to Break and Invincible Summer. Both Lio and Craig live in their heads much of the time and there is a stream-of-consciousness feel to the writing. What Moskowitz manages, in this book, is to pull the r More...

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May 14, 2011

Charles rated it:

Oh my God, this is so unfair.
Hannah Moskowitz must be an Extra Terrestrial or something. Or maybe one of those vampire literary lovers that have lived so long and that is why they write such great novels at such a young age and age doesn't matter because this book is so amazing and she writes like a pro, like she could be 50 fucking years old.
Again, so unfair.
This book.... is the first book I've ever finished in one sitting.
This book.... is not for people with homophobia. More...

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May 22, 2011

Val rated it:

So good and I'm just getting started.

edit: Okay so I thought Invincible Summer was amazing, but Gone, Gone, Gone is a whole new level. It feels more intense and wonderful and ohhh. I love it crazy, I love it sane. I can't even be coherent right now.

Thanks Simon & Schuster for having the amazing Galley Grab program that let me read this and be awed.

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Jun 04, 2011

Sean rated it:

In her own review of Gone, Gone, Gone, Phoebe mentioned that she felt as if the main characters could have been her friends by the time she got to the end of their story. I suspect your enjoyment of the novel will depend a great deal on whether you agree with her on that one, because I found it more frustrating than anything else and was more than ready to say goodbye to Craig and Lio by the time I turned the last page.

I will preface the rest of this review by saying that Gone, Gone, G More...

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Jun 14, 2011

Rina rated it:

SO AMAZING.

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Aug 31, 2011

Melissa rated it:

I'm not much of a reviewer, but, it would be a waste not to say anything about this novel. It's a beautiful piece of literature and fueled, one-hundred-and-forty-thousand percent by emotions and character, which I love to death. So many books these days concentrate on the action and the plot and the constant forward motion of these things and I am so glad that in Gone, Gone, Gone I was able to just SIT DOWN and LISTEN to the characters, get to know them, understand their tiny quirks and cheer on More...

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Aug 23, 2011

Allison rated it:

I was lucky enough to get a spot on the ARC tour Hannah sent this book on, which means I got to read a copy even though it's not released yet. Once I started reading, I could not put it down; according to the notes scribbled in the margins (which Hannah encouraged), this is pretty much the norm.

Gone, Gone, Gone is about two gay boys who meet in Maryland during the sniper attacks, a year after 9/11. Their worlds seem shaky and uncertain due to those major occurrences, but also because o More...

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Jul 08, 2011

Tracey rated it:

No spoilers, that's not how I roll.

Gone Gone Gone. What a great title. The word needed repeating. Craig is suffering the loss of his animals, his first love, and his mental well-being. Lio is suffering through the loss of his brother, his old home, and his mother.

This story is about two gay teenagers, but it is so much more. It takes place during a time of fear for people living in the DC area. I was a sophmore in college during this time and even here in Florida, More...

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May 12, 2011

Amanda rated it:

When I read Invincible Summer, I didn't know what to expect, and I fell in love with the voice. I don't know why, but for whatever reason, I was afraid I wouldn't feel the same about Gone, Gone, Gone.

Honestly, I liked it more than Invincible Summer. Though I loved that'n too.

I absolutely love her writing style, and her voice. I honestly don't think it would be possible to read something she has written, and not recognize her as the writer. Her style is minimalistic (in a More...

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May 10, 2011

Cory rated it:

I will preface this review with two notices of my potential bias towards this book.

1. I kind of know the author in the way that you get to know a person over the internet. She seems like a cool person, and while I doubt that has any influence over my review, you never know.

2. I'm a fan of character studies. Those of you who read my reviews may think otherwise, but really*, I am. One of my favorite books is a two hundred page introspective bull session. I went back and fo More...

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May 31, 2011

Alex added it

After reading Hannah Moskowitz’s Invincible Summer, I knew I would be reading whatever else she came up with. So when Gone, Gone, Gone arrived, I started it almost immediately. And I devoured it. I read it everywhere I went, and loved every minute it. Hannah Moskowitz has yet to disappoint.

I was immediately intrigued by the plot of Gone, Gone, Gone. I wasn’t old enough to remember the Beltway shootings, but Moskowitz made me feel as if I was living in D.C. at the time. Hannah herself More...

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