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3.59 AVERAGE
3.59 AVERAGE
This was a thriller that got me hooked from the very first pages. In the middle it kind of gets slow but quickly returns to its page turning hold on the reader. It's hard to review you it without revealing much of the plot.
challenging
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Every time I have read a book by Harlan Coben I have enjoyed it and this time is no different. I read this in two sittings.
This is about Jake who has a brief love affair and then watched the woman he loved marry another man. That day a she told him to stay away. He did. When he saw her new husband had been murdered he decided to look for Natalie. What a journey that was.
Could this be a little far fetched? Maybe. Does it matter? No. I enjoyed the story and the connections between the characters involved. It was a fast read and I have been left feeling back in a good place about reading again (following a slump)!
This is about Jake who has a brief love affair and then watched the woman he loved marry another man. That day a she told him to stay away. He did. When he saw her new husband had been murdered he decided to look for Natalie. What a journey that was.
Could this be a little far fetched? Maybe. Does it matter? No. I enjoyed the story and the connections between the characters involved. It was a fast read and I have been left feeling back in a good place about reading again (following a slump)!
Six years ago, Jake met the love of his life and was forced to say goodbye. With almost no warning, Natalie broke it off to marry another man. Knowing that Jake takes his promises seriously, she made him swear that he would leave them alone. In all those years, Jake has never broken his promise but he's never gotten over Natalie either. But Natalie's husband happens to be an alumni of the same university where Jake now teaches. As such, the man's obit runs briefly on the school website and Jake just happens to come across it. Jake travels out to the funeral only to discover that the man's widow - not Natalie - is accompanied by two teenage children. As Jake tries to dig deeper into the sudden mystery, he finds himself a target. It seems everyone wants to know where Natalie has been for the past six years! Jake is convinced that Natalie is in trouble but how can he track down someone who's all but vanished?
Harlan Coben can always be counted on for a wonderfully plotted puzzler of a read. SIX YEARS was that, but it was also oddly similar in a lot of ways to TELL NO ONE. I was struck more than once by that feeling of deja vu. Don't get me wrong, SIX YEARS is great and it's definitely a different story, but a lot of the elements are similar enough that I found myself feeling (guiltily) a tiny bit disappointed in this latest from one of my favorite authors.
Nevertheless, I was able to set all of that aside while reading and get completely wrapped up in Jake and his plight. Coben has always managed to do that to me as a reader. His combination of everyday characters and crazypants intense situations usually means that no one will be seeing much of me until I get through to the end of the story. (Note, these are great for those LONG waiting room experiences. But if you start reading Coben at bedtime, just be ready to be up for a while!)
If this happens to be your intro to Coben, you're in for a big treat! If you're a long time fan, you'll no doubt see the same similarities here (not pointing out specifics for fear of spoilers) with Tell No One.
Word on the street is that we'll finally, finally see a US movie adaptation in SIX YEARS. Hugh Jackman has been tapped to play Jake (yay!). Up till now the only adaptation out there is the French TELL NO ONE (which is wonderful! I rewatched it just after finishing SIX YEARS.)
Harlan Coben can always be counted on for a wonderfully plotted puzzler of a read. SIX YEARS was that, but it was also oddly similar in a lot of ways to TELL NO ONE. I was struck more than once by that feeling of deja vu. Don't get me wrong, SIX YEARS is great and it's definitely a different story, but a lot of the elements are similar enough that I found myself feeling (guiltily) a tiny bit disappointed in this latest from one of my favorite authors.
Nevertheless, I was able to set all of that aside while reading and get completely wrapped up in Jake and his plight. Coben has always managed to do that to me as a reader. His combination of everyday characters and crazypants intense situations usually means that no one will be seeing much of me until I get through to the end of the story. (Note, these are great for those LONG waiting room experiences. But if you start reading Coben at bedtime, just be ready to be up for a while!)
If this happens to be your intro to Coben, you're in for a big treat! If you're a long time fan, you'll no doubt see the same similarities here (not pointing out specifics for fear of spoilers) with Tell No One.
Word on the street is that we'll finally, finally see a US movie adaptation in SIX YEARS. Hugh Jackman has been tapped to play Jake (yay!). Up till now the only adaptation out there is the French TELL NO ONE (which is wonderful! I rewatched it just after finishing SIX YEARS.)
Fun, fast paced read- even though I figured out the mystery early on.
These are such dude books, but I'm enjoying having a new-to-me mystery plot author. I did not think this one was going to make sense in the end, but it did.
Sindsygt spændende, men også lidt kringlet. En dejlig anderledes krimibog.
I really enjoyed listening to this audio book, but I found some parts were extremely slow, especially at the end when I've figured out the Natalie story and I'm painfully waiting for Jake to catch up. Listening him to talk to her mother was like pulling teeth. If I had been reading it by book I definitely would have started skimming.
Overall, though, I liked this story much much better than The Stranger, which I listened to before this one.
Overall, though, I liked this story much much better than The Stranger, which I listened to before this one.
After reading Caught I decided to give the author another chance and I borrowed Six years from my local library. Well, what can I say? I was disappointed again. The book, the same as Caught, started very well, but then everything went downhill. I was no way interested in all this conspiracy with Natalie. This book reminded me about bad spy movie. Harlan Coben is definitely not my author and I am not going to read any other book by him. Overall, Six Years is even worse than Caught.