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nancyflanagan 's review for:
Fool Me Once
by Harlan Coben
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.