The Man Who Didn't Call: The OMG Love Story of the Year – with a Fantastic Twist

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Although the love story sequences between Eddie and Sarah are relatively short, we still feel completely invested in their love story. Sarah blinded by love and what started off as an intense happy feeling of love and bliss soon turns into an obsession of thoughts as Sarah tries to find out the truth. Walsh’s book dragged at times and she was redundant at several points throughout the book with the theme but overall Walsh created a story worth the finish. But the premise of the book that had a woman falling apart after a one week affair with a man who disappears from her life just didn’t work for me, mainly because there just wasn’t enough of their time together shown to reflect a realistic connection between them for me.

A lot of my fellow readers encouraged me to keep reading it as it picks up and that's exactly what happened. Ghosted is a quick, emotional and thrilling rollercoaster ride, with twists that I never saw coming. So having two characters, main characters, that are not relatable and to me, unlikable, doesn’t help.

There is a reason for Eddie's disappearance, and it's the one thing they didn't share with each other: the truth. This was another extremely compulsive read for me as I was emotionally invested and gripped right from the beginning which followed through to that extremely touching and stunning conclusion. But I had some questions about Sarah and came up with a crazy theory, so I kept on reading to see if I was right about her--I was completely wrong.

The Hallmark channel won’t be producing this story as their next movie of the week, because not everything in Sarah’s journey is all a bed of roses.Ghosted is about finally making that leap, delving head first into the love of your life, only to have it all whipped away – after only six days together.

I also liked the fact that the male character was coping with a parent suffering through severe depression/mental illness, and how being her full time caregiver (or Carer, as they say in GB) had limited his choices and enjoyment of life. Touted as a book for Jojo Moyes or Jane Green fans, Ghosted introduces us to the writing of Rosie Walsh, who has a number of other books under her belt, published in the name of Lucy Robinson, her pseudonym. There are thorns and ragged edges along Sarah’s unstoppable journey to find Eddie and the truth about his disappearance. I just never connected with many of the plot points, and also thought there was way to much teenage angst present, from a middle aged woman.

However, I have a read a few romances recently that kept me reading all night to see if the characters would get together (or back together) and sadly Ghosted just doesn't compare. I had different expectations for what it would be but that ultimately ended up not being a bad thing. Norma and I read Ghosted with seven of our Traveling Sisters and we had some very strong views on this one that not only split us into two different Coulees but two Coulees nowhere near each other. Bottom line is that I’m not the audience for this, but I wouldn’t be surprised if this does well with fans of romance. When I started reading the book all I knew about it is what’s described in the synopsis (which is not much), at the moment I had no idea if this was a thriller, mystery, romance, or what and it turned out to be something completely unexpected that I enjoyed.

This was my first read with Traveling Sisters and I enjoyed getting the perspectives of others who read this, even though we all didn’t agree. I wish to thank the publisher, Pan Macmillan for providing me with a free copy of this book for review purposes.Some books are entertaining, some books are affecting and some, like this one, creep under your skin, travel through your veins and settle in your heart. Just listen to the audio version - the narrator did a golden job and elevated this book to new heights! The premise is interesting enough, but what follows is a long and mostly pointless story that is equal parts boring and odd. I upped it to 3 stars in spite of the things I didn’t connect with because I did connect with the grief expressed by Sarah and Eddie for their sisters in the letters they wrote. it's quite possible it is not the book that is at fault, but myself who chose to read a book that was not for moi!