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A review by sometimesbryce
Fool Me Once by Harlan Coben
3.0
I did like this book, I did. It was very suspenseful and engaging, and very well written. However, I must say that I feel a bit... Manipulated? I guess it just felt... Inconsistent. Maya kills her husband in revenge, and then sees him on her nanny cam. Okay, great... But after a few chapters she seems more focused on what happened to her husband, than she does with what happened on the nanny cam.
I guess in the end it all felt rather lazy. Coben had a great plot lined up, and in the end I feel like he took the easy way out. At the end, I felt like I had been reading about this mystery for no point. The entire book seemed like a waste of my time. I literally thought "who cares?" In my opinion, it would have been a much better book if Maya had been upfront about everything. I think the point was more about the family's shenanigans than it was about the murder.
While I admit that the twist was fantastic, it felt manipulative to me as a reader. I love a good twist (Gone Girl, for example) but not one like this.
I don't know... It's late. Perhaps I'll update this tomorrow with a more coherent argument of what I'm trying to say...
I guess in the end it all felt rather lazy. Coben had a great plot lined up, and in the end I feel like he took the easy way out. At the end, I felt like I had been reading about this mystery for no point. The entire book seemed like a waste of my time. I literally thought "who cares?" In my opinion, it would have been a much better book if Maya had been upfront about everything. I think the point was more about the family's shenanigans than it was about the murder.
While I admit that the twist was fantastic, it felt manipulative to me as a reader. I love a good twist (Gone Girl, for example) but not one like this.
I don't know... It's late. Perhaps I'll update this tomorrow with a more coherent argument of what I'm trying to say...