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A book Inwas drawn into and read late into the night.Tense chilling characters that come alive. KatevWhite is an author to follow and recommend,#netgalley#avonbooksuk

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I greatly enjoyed this book, thank you for giving me a preview copy. The plot was interesting and fast paced and I sympathised with the characters. This is the first novel I have read by this author but I hope it will not be the last!

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I received a copy of this book via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

This is the story of Ally. One morning she turns up for work but realises something isn’t right. Her boss comes in and asks what she is doing there as she hasn’t worked there for five years. It turns out that she has lost two days of her life. Ally is determined to find out what happened to her in those two days.

This was a fast paced thriller with almost every character a suspect. I really enjoyed it and was surprised that I didn’t guess the ending correctly. This is my first book by this author and will definitely be reading more by her.

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In many ways, this book is pretty simple, in terms of the characters and the plot. That's no bad thing. It makes for a quick, pacey read. There's enough mystery throughout, to keep you hanging on until the end. I wasn't really surprised by the ending, but I did enjoy reading this book.

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Ally is a finance journalist but when she turns up for work one morning she discovers that she hasn’t actually worked there for five years. She knows who she is and that she is married to Hugh but the events of the previous few days draw a blank.
A few memories begin to drift back and as she is already seeing a therapist she increases the time spent with her hoping that this will help things improve. She also decides to employ a private investigator to help unravel the mystery of her missing memories.
Ally wonders if an event from the past could have triggered her memory loss or perhaps she witnessed something that she is trying to block out. What soon becomes clear though is that someone does not want her memory to return.
I loved this book. Well written and plotted, it’s gripping and I didn’t want it to end. Look forward to more from this author. Thank you NetGalley for an early copy

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A brilliant read that keeps you guessing. I thought the premise was very interesting a women went into a fugue state and hires a PI to find out what happened in those two lost days.

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Financial Journalist Ally has lost two days from her life. It seems she has experienced a Fugue state, possibly as a result of a trauma. Although she has been told to rest her mind, she tries to find clues to fill in the missing 48 hours with the help of her Analyst and a PI she hires.
Have You Seen Me is an exciting book. As Ally fills the gaps, worries why this has happened and fears it might recur, further unexpected events occur making her fear for her safety. Something doesn’t feel quite right at home and she has no idea why.
Kate White has produced a tense, atmospheric thriller, and as the pressure increases, one you know you will keep reading until the end. The ending is not unpredictable, that’s not a problem, but the weak reason why is.
I am glad I read it though.
With thanks to Netgalley and Avon Books UK

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This had a lot of potential. Ally arrives at her workplace believing she has been away on holiday, only to find that she hasn't worked there for years and her memory is a blank. After a while the details of her life come back to her, but two days are still missing. What did she do during that time, and what caused her to dissociate?

From this promising start, however, I found that the book dragged and it took me a long time to get through it. I was interested enough in how all the puzzle pieces would fit together to stick with it, hoping for a strong ending. Instead, I was thoroughly disappointed to find that (1) the two strands of the novel didn't have anything to do with each other and (2) the revelation of what actually happened in the missing two days was both predictable (in the sense that Ally's discomfort with that person/location was clearly telegraphed throughout) and ridiculous (in the sense that there had been precisely zero hints as to this backstory before).

All in all, it wasn't terrible but I would hesitate to recommend this book to psychological thriller fans.

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Ally Linden turns up for work at Greenbacks one morning without her key. When a colleague turns up and lets her in he tells Ally she hasn't worked there for 5 years. Upset, Ally passes out and is taken to hospital where the Dr tells her she has been in a fugue state and can't remember chunks of time. Her husband tells her she has been missing for 2 days much to Ally's surprise. As Ally struggles to find out what happened to her over those two days she also uncovers memories from her past...disturbing memories that upset and worry her. Ally hires a private detective to help her retrace her steps. She is also juggling her ambitious intern as well as wondering why her husband is acting so distant.

This novel has a lot of material that, handled better, could have been a good story. Ally spends 75% of the book sitting in her house wondering where she has been, chatting to her brother about where she might have been, and wondering if hiring a detective is a good idea. Once the detective puts in an appearance the story speeds up slightly, but on the whole it still drags. There is one, single chapter right at the end that has a lot of excitement in it, but by that point I was too bored to really care. I couldn't connect with the main character at all and found that I didn't sympathise with her in the slightest - instead I found her irritating and self pitying. There is not much in the way of tension - what is there is not handled adequately enough to raise your pulse and is over before it has begun as most of it occurs at the end of chapters and feels kind of rushed.

I felt that this novel needed to be longer so that the material could have been better explored. It wasn't my cup of tea, but if you enjoy light thriller fiction then this might be for you.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

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I really enjoyed this book not for the reasons I was expecting. I was expecting a fast paced twisty turning psychological thriller but I felt it was more of a slow paced domestic thriller, this isn’t a criticism, just an observation, as I still enjoyed the unfolding of the story. I really enjoyed the premise of this story as the main character Ally tries to unlock her missing memories after experiencing a state of fugue but with no idea of what led her to disconnect from her life for those two days. Desperate to find her memories Ally employs a number of strategies to try and discover what happened on those missing days.

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Ally Linden, a successful finance journalist steps out of the rain on a Thursday morning and in to her office, a normal work day in the heaving metropolis of NYC except its not. Ally hasn’t worked here for five years and to make matters worse she has no recollection of what she is doing there or why she is far from her usual well groomed self.

Intrigued? Check ups with the experts conclude she went in to a fugue state possible caused by something that traumatised her, she has no visible signs of injury and the last thing she can remember is arguing with her husband Hugh the night before. It gets worse for her when he collects her from the hospital he reveals that their argument took place on Monday night, so what happened to her on the Tuesday and Wednesday?

Little by little the pieces of Ally’s puzzle are stuck together, however be ready for a lot of red herrings. The secondary characters keep you guessing, her husband seems to have been keeping something from her, her intern seems power hungry, he didn’t do anything suspicious but I felt her brother was up to something plus I’d better not forget her ex lover who comes back on the scene. Ally’s childhood also comes back to haunt her, could something that happened all those years ago be responsible for something now?

She enrols the help of a PI to bring the puzzle pieces together and to be quite honest I really didn’t see it coming but when I got to the end I had an “ah!” moment. It is very cleverly done, like I said above red herrings have you pointing the finger at everyone until the big reveal.

I’ll be honest I didn’t warm to Ally straight away but as the book progressed I did warm to her and her journey to the truth. An excellent read mystery fans!

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This is an immensely suspenseful novel with several linked plots. When financial journalist Ally Linden arrives, drenched to the core, at her Manhattan offices but finds she has forgotten her key card, she sets off a chain of events that detail the unbelievable complex matter that is the human brain. For Ally has not worked at these offices for more than five years, and shockingly, she cannot remember much beyond her first name. Who is she is, where she lives, what career she now enjoys…it all appears lost to Ally and she cannot remember anything about the previous 48 hours, or the traumatic incident that must lie at the core of this amnesia.

Diagnosed with a dissociative state, we then follow Ally as she tries, slowly and steadfastedly, to piece the components of her life together. But are her husband and therapist withholding the truth? How helpful is the private detective hired to help Ally in hear search? And does a shocking childhood incident have anything to do with Ally’s current trauma?

This novel is a real page turner and will have you rooting for Ally as she searches to uncover suppressed memories. It is also a novel that reinforces the importance of the eight cognitive skills that so many of us take for granted. Among the twelve novels Kate White has written to date, this one stands out to me as an absolute psychological masterpiece. I am grateful to the publishers, Harper Collins, and to NetGalley for my ARC in exchange for this honest, unbiased review.

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This was an excellent read with lots of complexities along the way. It’s a new author for me and am looking forward to reading some of her other books.

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What started out as a real page turner drifted off to a “do I really care”. what happens next.
The characters were irritating and if I heard her brother call her Button one more time I might end up as the murderer. Oh and for this U.K. reader what is a “great room?”

A readable book but not a great one I am afraid.

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How scary would it be to lose two days of your life! Ally walks into work one day not realising she's not worked there for 5 years!! Thinking she's going mad she soon realised she's been missing for two days, her therapist is trying to help her as is her brother and a private detective. I was really enjoying the suspense and wondering what trauma had happened, to be honest though when it became apparent what had happened it was so far fetched and ridiculous it ruined the end for me

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Absolutely loved this book! I haven’t been able to put this down and I have found it simple to lose myself in page after page of this book.
Great writing style, great characters.
Absolutely loved it

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I really enjoyed this fantastic book which got me interested from the very first page and soon turned into a fast paced thriller which I couldn't put down.

It was extremely well written, brilliantly addictive and I was hooked from the very first page until the last one.

I hope to read more from this author in the future.

Thank you to Netgalley and Avon Publishers for giving me the opportunity to read this book.

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#HaveYouSeenMe? #NetGalley
Astounding and Amazing. White's best work till date.
Ally Linden who mistakenly thinks that she works at Greenbacks steps into her office without her key card. She comes at 8:05 and now she's waiting for the office manager, Caryn, who will help her with the door unlocking. Although later a guy named Nick Fukuyama helps her with door unlocking but then she remembers that she has also forgotten her office door key card and now she has to wait for Caryn.
Her ex love interest and colleague Damien Howe steps into the office and is surprised to see her. He tells her that she hasn't worked there in five years. She fainted.
Dr. Agarwal is handling her case and she slowly remembered that she live by Lincoln Center, she is a finance journalist, she's working on a book by the name of 25 Money Rules You Should Always Ignore, she was grew in Millerstown, New Jersey, her mom is dead and her father is alive and is a retired
pediatrician and she's married to Hugh.
Doctor tells her that she's in dissociative state in which a person miss big chunks of their identity.
Slowly she remembers everything but the last two days before concussion are missing. She has to find what happened with her in those two days. Someone doesn't want her to know.
I loved the characters. Kate is at her best.
Narration of the story is mind blowing.
Thanks to NetGalley and Avon for giving me an advance copy of this twisted psychological thriller.

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A fantastic story. I loved the intertwining plots and the characters.

I enjoyed that you never really know someone and things can change if you try hard enough.

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What would you think if you arrived to your place of work, only to be told you hadn’t worked there for five years? That’s the conundrum/panic that financial journalist Ally Linden faces – and the fact that the last few days have been a blur. She has to piece together what has happened to understand why she’s blanked it out. Her husband tries to help, but he’s got worries of his own – worries that Ally needs to also discover – her best friend is sick, there’s another woman hungry for her job and all the while, any detail Ally discovers only leads to more confusion. This twisty, turny read is absorbing; you want to know what really happened to Ally and you care about her.

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