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    Gone, Gone, Gone
    Gone, Gone, Gone
    Gone, Gone, Gone
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    Gone, Gone, Gone

    By Hannah Moskowitz

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    In the wake of the post-9/11 sniper shootings, fragile love finds a stronghold in this intense, romantic novel from the author of Break and Invincible Summer.

    It's a year after 9/11. Sniper shootings throughout the D.C. area have everyone on edge and trying to make sense of these random acts of violence. Meanwhile, Craig and Lio are just trying to make sense of their lives.

    Craig’s crushing on quiet, distant Lio, and preoccupied with what it meant when Lio kissed him...and if he’ll do it again...and if kissing Lio will help him finally get over his ex-boyfriend, Cody.

    Lio feels most alive when he's with Craig. He forgets about his broken family, his dead brother, and the messed up world. But being with Craig means being vulnerable...and Lio will have to decide whether love is worth the risk.

    This intense, romantic novel from the author of Break and Invincible Summer is a poignant look at what it is to feel needed, connected, and alive.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
    Release dateApr 17, 2012
    ISBN9781442407541
    Gone, Gone, Gone
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    Hannah Moskowitz

    Hannah Moskowitz is the award-winning author of the young adult novels Sick Kids In Love; Not Otherwise Specified; Break; Invincible Summer; Gone, Gone, Gone; and Teeth; as well as the middle grade novels Zombie Tag and Marco Impossible. She lives in New York City. 

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    • 5/5
      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 of their own personal issues. I love how being gay is not actually an issue for either boy - most of their family members know and accept them, as do classmates. Every single character was incredibly real and funny and touching, and the story arc was incredibly well done. (Since the book won't be released until 2012, I don't want to give away much more of the story because You Need To Read It.)

      I loved the story overall, but after I finished, the thing that stuck with me most is that Hannah is an amazing writer. She makes things sound beautiful and profound, without overusing a thesaurus or making you feel sick with how flowery her language is. She can write a simple sentence and it will resonate with you long after you finish the book.
    • 2/5

      This and other reviews can be found on Reading Between Classes

      Cover Impressions: Meh. Kinda boring.

      The Gist: In the wake of 9/11 two boys struggle to make sense of the world and each other. Craig is still in love with his (sort of) ex-boyfriend but, despite himself, is falling for quiet and reserved Lio. Lio is a cancer survivor and still reeling from the loss of his twin brother. The boys cling to one another in tragic circumstances and develop an intense relationship that teaches them about longing and love.

      Review: Wow. This one was surprising. The reviews for this one have been fantastic. Nearly everyone on my Goodreads list who has read it, has loved it. And I .... didn't. I just didn't. This is my second foray into Hannah Moskowitz's writing and I think it is just not for me. Her characters are a little too quirky to be real, her plots are a little too plodding to keep me interested and her storylines tend to include elements that make me cringe (though the ones in this particular book were a lot easier to take than in Teeth. Perhaps, I am too mainstream for this type of writing. I feel like I need a pair of ironic glasses and some beat up Chuck Taylors just to understand what message Moskowitz is trying to send in her novels. For example, one character was scared of a sniper, one was not. We have random killings with no real purpose other than to give the two main characters a reason to skip school and then the snipers are caught (in the last line of the book noless) with no clear effect on the plot. I know, I know, the message was about love - but it didn't really feel that way. The two boys just seemed to be playing at love and enjoying a remarkable sense of freedom from parental supervision (what the hell parents?).

      Clearly, this book resonated with a lot of people. I think that perhaps my time spent teaching ACTUAL teenagers makes me extra cynical when fictional teenagers seem too mature, too precocious and too intense or damaged.

      Teaching/Parental Notes:

      Age: 16 and up
      Gender: Both
      Sex: Kissing, Sex between teenagers
      Violence: Sniper shootings (several victims, including children)
      Inappropriate Language: Bitch, Shit, Fuck, Slut, Cock, Piss, Jesus Christ, Faggot, Pussy,
      Substance Use/Abuse: Smoking
    • 4/5
      Amid the backdrop of the true 2002 Beltway Sniper attacks around Washington, D.C., two boys struggle through friendship, loss, grief, fear, and love. They both cling to people in their pasts and have a hard time noticing each other in the present.
    • 4/5
      Very hard to really discuss this book... one of those that really needs to be experienced in order to be understood. But if there was word to sum it up, it would be: Bittersweet. :)
    • 5/5
      Beautiful story. Beautiful characters. I have no words to describe what this book is doing to my heart. A book that should be read by everyone. Everyone.
    • 4/5
      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 YA. In a genre oversaturated with shallow minded love stories and derivative high school stories, it’s so refreshing to see a book with such intricate character studies of its two main protagonists. This book really is one of the strongest character studies I’ve ever seen in YA. Lio and Craig (and I honestly can’t decide which one I love more) are so intricately put together, so detailed in their personalities, right down to the smallest, seemingly insignificant details that fit together like puzzle pieces.

      Alternating between Craig and Lio’s points of view, Moskowitz manages to handle several very heavy topics – family death, cancer, sexuality, world tragedy – deftly, without slipping into soap opera mode. Everything feels real and brimming with emotion yet never overwrought. As this is a character study – there’s no real plot to speak of – this is where Moskowitz really shines. I dare any reader not to become attached to Craig and Lio. The emotions ever present in the story are raw, often unflinchingly so, and Moskowitz never shies away from the grey areas of the story and thankfully manages to avoid becoming preachy and clichéd. Chris and Lio do solace with each other but it’s not some magical healing love that solves everything for them – it’s just as messed up, awkward, confusing and beautiful as them. I truly appreciated not just the gay love story but the fact that it was interracial – Craig is black and Lio is Jewish – and such markers of identity were merely incidental, not some misguided form of tokenism. Their quirks feel so natural, as does their entire story. To watch their bittersweet and often bumpy relationship unfold is an emotional experience.

      The other part of this book where Moskowitz’s skills flourished was in the book’s atmosphere. It’s a time of fear – the D.C. sniper shootings in post 9/11 America – and the entire story is steeped in this inescapable mood of terror. Craig and Lio’s narrations both capture the dread of living not just in a city but in a world where fear has become so normal that it’s part of everyday life. It’s something one as a reader definitely gets caught up in, along with the entire spectrum of emotions the story is steeped in.

      I thoroughly enjoyed “Gone, Gone, Gone” but there were times where it felt as if the story dragged. It’s a short book but I think it would have worked perfectly as a novella. As it is, it’s still immensely readable but could benefit from more editing. There’s still a year to go so I’m pretty sure there will be more work done to it. I was also a little disappointed by the lack of story time dedicated to the female characters of the story. I really wanted to know more about Adelle, Lio’s therapist, as well as his sisters. Moskowitz has such deft skill for characterisation so it was disappointing to not see some of that dedicated to the women of the story.

      This is a book about what makes you the person you are, and how the smallest, or biggest, of things can change not just you but everything around you. Reading Craig’s and Lio’s stories was truly a fascinating and often highly emotional experience and one I highly recommend you pick up upon its release. There aren’t many books like “Gone, Gone, Gone” in the YA market these days and I definitely think there should be more love for such intricate and complex character studies in a genre, and with an age group, so often misrepresented as shallow and simple. That’s definitely not the case and “Gone, Gone, Gone” is the perfect example of that.

      4/5.
    • 4/5
      This was an interesting book. It was very thought-provoking for a young adult story. The romance was very real although every time it said the boys were fifteen, that did seem too young for me. But the book went beyond just romance. Craig and Lio's lives and their reactions to their lives were very real. And their struggle to decide if one tragedy is worse than another (in this case, were the towers worse than the Pentagon). Is it just numbers and statistics or isn't there something more to life and people's mortality? I enjoyed the point Moskowitz made. The book is well paced so it's not a long read. The format takes a few pages to get use to but it does hold some power. There could have been some more development in a few parts, like with Craig's ex-boyfriend. But by developing that, Moskowitz would have had to develop other parts and that would have made the book longer so perhaps that is why. For a young adult novel, it was pretty good.
    • 3/5
      Actual Rating: 3.5 This is the first time that I've had to write two reviews for a book. I wasn't happy with the initial review that I wrote, plus I had so many thoughts about Gone, Gone, Gone that I missed in the original one, which is why I had to rewrite it. I had high expectations from Gone, Gone, Gone and I was super excited about reading it. When I started the book, I found it very hard to keep going on with it. But once I was thrown smack in the middle of it, it became un-put-downable and I read almost 75% of the novel in one sitting. I wanted to love it. I really did. It isn't that the book didn't meet my high expectations, it's just that it wasn't as powerful and impacting as I thought it'd be. That does not mean that I didn't like the book, because honestly, I really liked it and it was a really really good book. Most stories revolving around 9/11 are very moving and emotional. I expected Gone, Gone, Gone to be more emotionally empowering, but it didn't go there with me. It is more of an eye-opener and puts the facts out straight. It is about the statistical and practical scenario after the devastating attack on US in 2000. Craig is heart-broken and torn between waiting for his ex-boyfriend Cody or just moving on. He has this crazy obsession with animals and has so many of them as pets, until one day, after a burglary in his house, his pets free themselves and he goes out to find them one by one. It was beautiful reading about his attachment with these animals and the cute names he gave them. I loved Craig's family, which was close-knit.Lio was my favourite character. He's the tortured hero here. There are so many things going on with him that makes you feel bad for him. His mom leaves their family, his twin brother, Theodore dies and his family is literally all over the place. I loved his relationship with his dad and he was an amazing brother to all his sisters. His point of view was simply astounding and I was so happy to see that the book ended with Lio's POV. There were many secondary characters in Gone, Gone, Gone who really shined in the book and gave it a strong base. I loved the two fifteen year old protagonists, Craig and Lio. They seemed very mature for their age, but I suppose that being witness to acts of terrorism makes you grow faster, emotionally and mentally. They were mature, complex and very likable The emails and IMs between Craig and Lio were absolutely crazy and it made me think if fifteen year olds write that way, but oh well... it was good reading it and that's what matters. I really liked the fact they were sure and open about their sexual orientation and how easy their relationship seemed when it was actually pretty messed up. I think this is where author Hannah Moskowitz deserves a huge round of applause for putting raw emotions and thoughts just the way they are, without any filtration. Craig and Lio share an amazing relationship and it was wonderful reading about it. I loved how they met, got to know each other, shared their deepest secrets, strived towards making their relationship work and how they were just together.Hannah Moskowitz has written a fast paced and action packed book with great emotion, power, love and friendship and that's what makes Gone, Gone, Gone a really good read.

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