No Time for Goodbye vs Where are you now?: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Personas desaparecidas, Missing persons, Ficción, Domestic fiction, Thriller, Fiction
No Time for Goodbye
Fourteen-year-old Cynthia Bigge wakes up one morning to find her entire family gone. Twenty-five years later, their unexplained disappearance still haunts her. She agrees to appear on the reenactment show Deadline,…
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Where are you now?
Ten years ago, twenty-one-year-old Columbia University senior Charles MacKenzie Jr. ("Mack") walked out of his Manhattan apartment without a word to his roommates and disappeared. He calls his mother once a year, on…
The verdict
- Readers rate Where are you now? highest: Where are you now? 4.5 · No Time for Goodbye 4.0.
- Where are you now? is the quickest read — about 5 hours vs 8 for No Time for Goodbye.
- No Time for Goodbye has the widest readership — 44302 ratings behind its score.
- No Time for Goodbye runs the darker storyline; Where are you now? stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Want a one-evening read?
Where are you now?
≈ 5h vs 8h for No Time for Goodbye
Just want the better-reviewed one?
Where are you now?
4.5 vs 4.0 from readers
In the mood for something dark?
No Time for Goodbye
a darker storyline than Where are you now?
Want something lighter?
Where are you now?
an easier tone than No Time for Goodbye
Scores by source
| No Time for Goodbye | Where are you now? | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.0 (44302) | — |
| Hardcover | 3.8 (45) | 3.9 (20) |
| Google Books | 4.5 (3) | 3.5 (6) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (319) | 4.5 (910) |
Reception
| No Time for Goodbye | Where are you now? | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 44302 | 910 |
| Editions | 35 | 19 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 22436 | — |
| Reading it now | 1559 | — |
| Written reviews | 3438 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 519 | 92 |
| Pages | 474 | 320 |