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Recensito nel Regno Unito il 25 settembre 2020

the only thing outstanding about this book are the 5star reviews. Awful plot and characters, mainly Poppy who spends money her Father would not have. They had to remortgage the house for a dog yet Poppy spends thousands on clothes and designer gear when she is only 16!!! And don't get me started on the police proceedires in this book. It's a joke.

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Recommended- three and a half stars

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 29 settembre 2020

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I think a fair marking of this book is three and a half stars. I’m dumbfounded by some of the critical reviews where reviewers have said such things as- too much swearing ( not true)- unbelievable (untrue...unless the reviewer has inside information about witness protection)- flimsy characters ( not true...the author has captured the essence of the mainly teenage outlook).
So the plot revolves around witness protection. Zara, 16, has contact with the homeless and witnesses two men kill a ‘friend’, Jamie and this results in her giving evidence at Crown Court. The men are acquitted when Zara tells a lie. Zara’s family are given an Osman Warning and placed in witness protection. (Osman warning is where there are threats to life but not enough evidence to pursue in court).
What follows is a fight for justice of the homeless, the awful upheaval and break up of families and the pursuance of Zara by a group involved because Zara has more incriminating evidence against them.
Sometimes, this dragged a little and I wanted things to move on. However, there’s a good build up of tension as various family members are placed in danger. I learned more about the difficulties of witness protection and how relatively small breaches have a disastrous impact.I did guess the ending but I so wanted to be correct that I was pleased.
The book is well worth a read.

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Stunning!

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 12 agosto 2020

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Wow! This book! I still can’t believe that ending. Gillian McAllister has become one of my go-to authors; I don’t even have to read the blurb before I click that pre-order button. How To Disappear is her best book to date. This book will take you on a whirlwind of emotions, and I don’t think I’ll be forgetting about it any time soon. I think this is one of those books where you will want to talk to someone else who has read it straight away; it’ll make the perfect book club read.

Zara is fourteen when she witnesses the horrific attack on a homeless man. But her life and the lives of her family members are changed dramatically when she is placed in witness protection. A group of dangerous men are determined to silence Zara, and when her identity is released online, it puts her in immediate danger. But this group will stop at nothing to track her down, which means that Zara is constantly on the lookout and tensions are always running high.

I can’t imagine what it must be like for people who have to go into witness protection. Just imagine having to give up everything you know; your family; your friends; your identity, it must be soul-destroying. But this is only the beginning. You have to keep up the pretence. One slip up could prove deadly.

Gillian McAllister explores how people in this position must feel in Zara and her mum Lauren. She also explores this with the family who are left behind. You can really see how this has had an effect on them and on how scared they are all the time. You can see how hard it is for them to begin a new life without talking about anything in their past. Lauran and Zara find this incredibly difficult and they are burning to speak to someone about their troubles.

Lauren and Zara’s desire to talk about what they are going through is what keeps the tension in this book, turning up a notch. I was flying through the pages as I kept expecting any moment for either of them to slip up and mention something to someone. Also, I couldn’t trust the people who they were becoming friends with. Gillian McAllister kept me wondering if these people were working with those who were trying to track Zara down and cause her harm, and they were some nasty individuals.

As I said earlier, How To Disappear will take you on a whirlwind of a ride. This is Gillian McAllister’s best book to date, and I can’t wait to read what she writes next!

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Talia

A fast paced jaw dropping thriller with themes of love and loss

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 15 febbraio 2021

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This was everything a great psychological thriller should be! Fast and breath taking. The sequence of events starts when Zara, an older teenager, witnesses the death of a homeless man. Two young men are charged with his murder. Zara gives evidence as Girl A, as there are serious concerns for her safety if her identity is known. The reason for this is that the young men had brilliant futures ahead of them as part of a premiership football team. Their dreams are now left in tatters.

The case falls apart as Zara is found out in a lie. Social media goes wild with speculation as to her identity and Zara is forced to consider going into Witness Protection. She eventually decides that would be the safest option, and she goes into Witness Protection with her mother. Her mother’s husband decides not to join them as he has a child outside of this family, one who he cannot bear to leave.

The story is told from a variety of perspectives, from Zara, her mother Lauren, her mother’s husband Aidan and her mother’s husband’s daughter, Poppy. The story is fast moving as we catch up with characters in a variety of settings. It seems to move quickly as we read on to find out what is happening to all the characters at the same time, but in different circumstances.

You get a real sense of danger as groups are set up on social media to try to locate Girl A who seek redress for her ruining the footballing future of the boys involved. Despite not going with his second family, the reader is left in no doubt that he loves them immensely. Aidan puts himself in great danger as he tries to thwart the group finding Girl A. Zara initially loses the plot as she tries to fit into a new school, get new friends and get used to her new identity. Her mother Lauren seems to struggle the most as she finds herself unable to forgive Zara for lying and putting them in this situation. Poppy believes she is on the edge of the situation but her involvement is forced on her.

The story fluctuates from being emotional and reflective, then the threat of danger comes to the fore and you feel a real fear for the welfare of the family as a whole. The ending was brilliant. No other word for it. Luckily Gillian Mc Allister has written a lot more books to enjoy.

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Elaine Fairfield

This book took me on such a crazy ride!

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 20 ottobre 2021

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Zara, who is known publicly as “Girl A”, is testifying against a brutal crime she has witnessed. But things quickly go wrong when her identity is revealed, and Zara and her mum Lauren have to disappear in order to stay safe.

In the meantime Lauren’s husband is staying behind, so emotions are fraught as the family is torn apart and things become dangerous for everyone involved. Lauren and Zara are off the grid, with new names and new identities. Nobody knows where they are because they’ve cut off all ties. Or have they? Will they slip up? Will they be found?

You’ll think you’ll know whats happening from one page to the next but there are twists all the way through. There is so much going on; so many sun-plots that all add to such a rich storyline with lovely characters. The entire family (Lauren, Zara, Aidan and Poppy) were all really likeable.

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Mrs Sarah Farmer-Wright

Knock out!

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 5 settembre 2020

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When 14 year old Zara witnesses the brutal murder of homeless man, Jamie, it changes her and her family’s lives forever. The court case falls apart but Zara has vital information and so remains a key witness resulting in her and her mother, Lauren, having to go into witness protection, and in Lauren being separated from her husband (Zara’s stepfather).
Being in witness protection is tough - the overwhelming temptation to secretly contact family and friends, the necessity of having to tell and uphold lies about your life, your name, your backstory; your life in constant peril and always having to watch your back.
Oh my goodness, this was an absolutely gripping story!! The tension was so incredibly high throughout that I almost felt breathless!! The characters are truly 3 dimensional and the plot is nothing short of superb with an ending that absolutely knocks your socks off! This book packs one heck of an almighty punch!
Highly, highly recommended!

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Mr. S. E. Johnson

Isn't it nice when books just work?

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 16 novembre 2020

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Cast your mind back 20 years to the turn of the millennium. I'm sure you can remember where you were. Perhaps you celebrated it by going out to a street party and seeing some fireworks. Or maybe you met up with some family and friends and had a party.

But can you lay your hands on any photos of it? Of course you can't. At that time, digital cameras were (a) expensive and (b) rubbish, there was no such thing as a selfie and even if you did take a camera out with you, chances are you never got round to having the film developed. And even if you did, the photos you had printed got lost, or damaged, years ago.

It's a bit different now, isn't it? Everyone's phone has a camera, and as soon as you get a nice photo it can instantly be uploaded onto a social media site. Even if you didn't take that picture yourself, you might appear in one taken by your workplace to promote their business.

Over the first ten years of the 2000s, my life went from being practically unknown by anyone to becoming an open book. I'm sure that if you could be bothered, you could find out from Facebook where I lived, how I spent last weekend, the names of my wife and two cats and the fact that I cut a sight for very sore eyes as I tried to relieve my hangover with a New Year's Day swim at the start of this year.

That's not a problem for me, of course. But what if I had to keep my location a secret?

This and many other 'what if' scenarios are ones that play in your head as you read How to Disappear. Zara is just fourteen years old when she witnesses the murder of a homeless man by two aspiring Premier League footballers. A year later she gives evidence at their trial, anonymously, as 'Girl A'. But the trial collapses. Zara's identify is revealed online, and her life is threatened. The only answer seems to be for Zara and her mother Lauren to disappear from life as they know it, and enter a witness protection scheme. But her husband Aiden can't join them, because he has a daughter from a previous marriage. And his ex-wife, and Poppy's mother, is crippled by multiple sclerosis.

And that's just the start of the family's difficulties. Zara has to be placed in a new school, and Lauren in a new job. But how to make friends, and work effectively with new colleagues if you have to keep your life story a secret? And it only takes one slip. One log-in to your husband's Instagram account. One present sent to your sister, whom you discover is pregnant after years of trying. A revelation of the truth to one school friend after it all just gets to be that bit too much.

Then there's Aiden's story. Does he just accept that he can never see, or hear from his wife again? Of course he doesn't. Perhaps if he can find proof that the two footballers, who have organised a 'Find Girl A' group on Facebook, have criminal intentions and then entrap them, they'll be taken off the streets and he can have is wife and stepdaughter back. But how big a risk is this to his own life? And his daughter's?

This, for me, is one of those books that just works. It's a thriller and a love story at the same time. It's fast-paced, yet gut-wrenching. I wanted to scream in Lauren's face not to be so stupid, and at the same time help her along. I wanted to slap Zara for being so rude to her mum, and then immediately give her a huge hug to try and make her feel better. I silently screamed at Aiden to stop and be more careful, whilst almost simultaneously cheering him on. And that ending ... I never saw that coming. I went from having a lump in my throat to being open-mouthed in the space of a single page.

Perhaps, if I was to be ultra-critical, there were a few - just a few - points in the storyline where I thought 'would it really happen like that?' And the author's admittance that she had "basically ... made it up" because the UK's protection service weren't prepared to give any of their secrets away, wasn't exactly reassuring in this respect. The thing is though that I don't know any better either. So there's really no point in querying how factually correct this book is when it's written this well, and made me think and feel the way it did.

You just need to not over-analyse and simply enjoy. I loved it. It's probably one of my favourite 5 reads of this year and definitely not the last book I'll read by Gillian McAllister.

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N17C

Excellent

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 15 febbraio 2021

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How to Disappear by @gillianmauthor
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Lauren’s daughter, Zara, is a witness to a terrible crime and gives evidence in court. But when her identity is revealed online it sends the target back to her. Zara and her family, after receiving death threats, have to make the decision to go into witness protection. Leaving behind their friends, family and even Lauren’s husband. Lauren soon learns that disappearing was the easy part, it’s the staying hidden that is the hard bit.
Wow! This book is incredibly fast-paced and twisty. It leaves you wanting to turn the pages and read more. I’ve never said “just one more chapter” to myself so much. And the ending! Didn’t expect that. You must add this to your to be read pile.

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Crazy Granny

A masterpiece of suspense, thought provoking and emotionally charged read. Very highly recommended.

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 21 agosto 2020

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This is a superb piece of writing. Emotionally charged and thought provoking. A teenage witness to a malicious murder whose appearance in court throws her whole family into turmoipl. Her life under threat, witness protection takes over and, from then on, the family is divided, separated, her life is under threat and the story unfolds. To say more would spoil the read but believe me, this is a really skilled piece of writing. It had me totally engrossed to the point where I felt I was actually expriencing events first hand. When the story ended it left me with a mixture of emotions and wondering just how our justice system really does operate. Thought provoking and emotionally charged. Very highly recommended.

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David of Three Oaks

All About Social Media

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 31 ottobre 2020

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This is a real page turner with several twists including, most of all, in the last few pages. The story centres around witness protection and how those protected are the engineers of their discovery. It shows how isolating witness protection must be and the wrench of no future contact from friends and close family. The plot relies on the effective deployment of social media and, of necessity, one of the key characters is an IT specialist. I was surprised there was not any real anger towards the person whose actions had required the use of witness protection and I suspect the author wanted us to remain sympathetic towards the character.

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