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Don't Let Go
by Harlan Coben
I read this quick on the heels of finishing another Harlan Coben novel. I think I enjoyed it more, but for different reasons. As with the other one, he’s a very engaging writer with a skill for writing gripping suspense novels. Something big happens in every chapter and it never really stops moving.
I didn’t find the plot as interesting - I think the actual concept was a bit bland, for me. But I thought the writing was stronger and the plotting was better and it had a final twist that I didn’t see coming
I think part of why I liked it is because of the main character and narrator, from a purely superficial place. I’m primarily a reader of romance novels and romantic suspense is a favourite genre of mine - and the main character of this book, for me, was like an archetypal romantic suspense hero. I enjoyed the romantic element of the novel, too, and would have liked to see more of it - but I get that this isn’t a romance book.
I found the ending a bit rushed.
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I thought it was an engaging, well-paced suspense novel with a lot of good twists and turns and an interesting hero. I just thought it had a slightly unsatisfactory ending.
I would recommend it if you want a fast-paced suspense novel full of twists with a morally grey hero.
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I didn’t find the plot as interesting - I think the actual concept was a bit bland, for me. But I thought the writing was stronger and the plotting was better and it had a final twist that I didn’t see coming
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despite it being hinted at throughout, on reflection.I think part of why I liked it is because of the main character and narrator, from a purely superficial place. I’m primarily a reader of romance novels and romantic suspense is a favourite genre of mine - and the main character of this book, for me, was like an archetypal romantic suspense hero. I enjoyed the romantic element of the novel, too, and would have liked to see more of it - but I get that this isn’t a romance book.
I found the ending a bit rushed.
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The twist was good, but the actual conclusion fell a bit flat. It was like the author didn’t really know how to resolve it - by the end of the book, the hero had done so many illegal things there was no real way out for him that I could see that would have been frustrating as I liked his character. As a reader, it was just a bit unsatisfying...It might be the romance reader in me but I would have liked a bit of an epilogue just to see how the characters had moved past things. Just a bit more resolution would have made this a stronger book, to me.Also…
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The previous book I read by the same author had some similar themes in it when it came to some of the major twists. In both books, the seemingly golden boy figure who is idolised by the narrator is revealed to have been manipulative and a bully, in different degrees of severity. It might have been because I pretty much read them back to back, but I saw it coming a mile off that Leo was not the perfect person that Nap thought him to be, and I was not shocked at the revelation he died in the process of using humiliation to punish his girlfriend. It just felt a bit repetitive and I’d hoped I was wrong as I read it. That said - I don’t think I’d have this complaint if I’d read a different book, maybe?I thought it was an engaging, well-paced suspense novel with a lot of good twists and turns and an interesting hero. I just thought it had a slightly unsatisfactory ending.
I would recommend it if you want a fast-paced suspense novel full of twists with a morally grey hero.
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