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Six Years
by Harlan Coben
Don't get me wrong I loved the concept of this book and the chase to find Natalie was fun. But it just felt so flat, boring, and lacking. There were so many issues I had and all in all the author came off pompous and trying too hard. I felt like he was reaching a target audience of "someone who can't think for themselves and needs me to hold their hand.. blah blah"
Jake is such a weird character. So he was a bouncer before becoming a college professor okay sure? But then he has all these contradicting thoughts. He hates breaking the law then does. He loves to play madden but hates that our society is so sports based. Jake also for being a professor is very lacking in street smarts and basic problem solving skills there were many times when it took him way to long to get a very basic piece of information. And so on. Jake isn't the only weird character though. All the professors don't fit. You expect me to believe that all these top notch, former FBI for example, professors work at a small college that doesn't get much attention. I doubt that.
Everything was stereotypical and unrealistic. A Library Bar? A hippie retreat? It just all felt like what the author thought dumb college students wanted to read.
All in all Jake is chasing after "the love of his life" in this retelling of his adventure that sounds like something he might have written down in his diary. A girl he has obsessed over for 6 years after a brief summer where she shared barley anything with him and not only dumped him but got married to another guy. And yet Jake can't let her go. Weird but I guess some people are like that I can get on board with that. I also get how the whole story ties together in all honesty it was one of my first guesses before I read one page. And the fact that I could guess it with that little information (and I'm not talking I knew all the things that lead to this but I knew the big one) is pretty sad.
I don't regret reading this but I wouldn't recommend it to a friend.
Jake is such a weird character. So he was a bouncer before becoming a college professor okay sure? But then he has all these contradicting thoughts. He hates breaking the law then does. He loves to play madden but hates that our society is so sports based. Jake also for being a professor is very lacking in street smarts and basic problem solving skills there were many times when it took him way to long to get a very basic piece of information. And so on. Jake isn't the only weird character though. All the professors don't fit. You expect me to believe that all these top notch, former FBI for example, professors work at a small college that doesn't get much attention. I doubt that.
Everything was stereotypical and unrealistic. A Library Bar? A hippie retreat? It just all felt like what the author thought dumb college students wanted to read.
All in all Jake is chasing after "the love of his life" in this retelling of his adventure that sounds like something he might have written down in his diary. A girl he has obsessed over for 6 years after a brief summer where she shared barley anything with him and not only dumped him but got married to another guy. And yet Jake can't let her go. Weird but I guess some people are like that I can get on board with that. I also get how the whole story ties together in all honesty it was one of my first guesses before I read one page. And the fact that I could guess it with that little information (and I'm not talking I knew all the things that lead to this but I knew the big one) is pretty sad.
I don't regret reading this but I wouldn't recommend it to a friend.