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3.72 AVERAGE
3.72 AVERAGE
Great book. Tons of twists and turns. One twist that I have never seen in all my years of reading.
Interesting book in that it has a few plot turns. Former special ops pilot Captain Maya Stern Burkett comes home from the war to have her world turned upside down when a video is released of her last operation during the war and the violent death of her husband. A series of events puts her on the path of investigating her husbands past which has surprising consequences.
I liked it BUT it's not the way I WANTED it to end... by any means. I guess that wasn't really my place lol... I had a hard time putting it down... and then. Oh well. But I like Coben's writing and his characters, so it was not wasted time.
3.5 stars! Harlen Coben is a fantastic writer as I was able to speed read through this book! The premise of this book really interested me and it was overall a quick read.
A widowed woman, Maya and her two-year-old daughter, Lily are grieving the death of their husband/father that was murdered during a robbery that went wrong. A friend of Maya gives her a nanny cam to watch over her daughter and their nanny just in case. Everything goes downhill fast when Maya reviews the footage and sees her dead husband playing with their daughter Lily.
This book takes on many twists and turns and it turned out to be nothing like what I thought it was going to be in the end. I thought that it was cleverly written although there was something about the book that just didn't "click" with me. Perhaps I'm just more used to reading domestic thrillers that this one was really different for me. Not in a bad way, but just in a different way. Overall, would recommend!
A widowed woman, Maya and her two-year-old daughter, Lily are grieving the death of their husband/father that was murdered during a robbery that went wrong. A friend of Maya gives her a nanny cam to watch over her daughter and their nanny just in case. Everything goes downhill fast when Maya reviews the footage and sees her dead husband playing with their daughter Lily.
This book takes on many twists and turns and it turned out to be nothing like what I thought it was going to be in the end. I thought that it was cleverly written although there was something about the book that just didn't "click" with me. Perhaps I'm just more used to reading domestic thrillers that this one was really different for me. Not in a bad way, but just in a different way. Overall, would recommend!
My SO and I started watching "Safe" on Netflix, which reminded me that I like HC's twists. So, I picked up a random one from the library. Great ending; kind of muddled around in the beginning and middle and I never really felt connected to the main character. So, it was just okay for me. But I kept reading because I knew the ending would be good (and it was).
A sufficiently thrilling book that I played hooky most of the day to read it. The twists were surprising enough that I actually gasped out loud and dropped my jaw AND startled myself by jumping in my chair.
It took a little long to get into the story, maybe because I don't have a military background to understand PTSD. (doesn't mean I don't sympathize, but i struggled relating)
It took a little long to get into the story, maybe because I don't have a military background to understand PTSD. (doesn't mean I don't sympathize, but i struggled relating)
4.5 stars. Gripping plot and excellent voice. I loved this enjoyable yet sophisticated book right up until the final pages, when I feel like the author tried to do too much too quickly. Still a very good read with a fascinating protagonist.
This was the second of the author's books I read. I grabbed The Stranger at the airport to read during vacation and really enjoyed it. The excerpt for Fool Me Once was at the end, and I was intrigued. However, Fool Me Once was far better than The Stranger (although I did enjoy the nod to The Stranger in this novel). There was twist after twist after twist. I kept pausing to think of what might have happened, and in the end, it wasn't anything I came close to guessing. Now I want to go back and enjoy all of Coben's works!
I read most of what Harlan Coben writes. His Myron Bolitar books are always amusing, but pretty much a one-note excursion. You know what you're going to get, even though he tries hard to add new semi-permanent characters and different twists.
His standalone books are a more mixed bag. Some of them are great. Others--like this one--feel like Coben has run out of ideas, and is recycling certain memes. This one recycles the "is he/she really dead?" theme that has been the plot centerpiece of other Coben books. Worse, there's a lot of explaining in this book--the plotting is very cluttered, which leads to confusion, rather than the satisfaction of untangling the threads to uncover the real story.
Not one of his best.
His standalone books are a more mixed bag. Some of them are great. Others--like this one--feel like Coben has run out of ideas, and is recycling certain memes. This one recycles the "is he/she really dead?" theme that has been the plot centerpiece of other Coben books. Worse, there's a lot of explaining in this book--the plotting is very cluttered, which leads to confusion, rather than the satisfaction of untangling the threads to uncover the real story.
Not one of his best.