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The Boy from the Woods
by Harlan Coben
This is the first Harlan Coben book I've read but after watching a number of his books that had been adapted onto TV series for Netflix thought I'd give him a read.
The Boy From The Woods is a full of twists and turns as would be expected. The title is slightly misleading as the titular Boy From The Woods isn't the main thrust of the story after finding this mystery boy the story fast forwards 30 years to when he's a man.
The story is a bit convoluted but I guess you have to suspend belief to some extent it involves a missing teenager Naomi, who is found, goes missing again and then another teenager goes missing. Are their disappearances connected? We go back and forth, thinking maybe they aren't, maybe they are. There are a number of sub plots some more satisfying than others.
Wilde who is the boy from the woods goes from being an interesting to a somewhat irritating character at various points in the book. Hester Crimstein is a criminal attorney who also gets involved with the investigation, she's a strong character and well written and believable.
The ending probably has one twist too many, it's like the author is trying to squeeze as many twists as he can from the story and it perhaps doesn't need the final twist.
There is the occasional cringe worthy dialogue and It perhaps wasn't as edgy as I was expecting from the TV adaptations I've seen of his work, but as I've not read any of his other books I'm not sure of that's the way the other books have been adapted or whether it's something with this book in particular.
Having said all that it wasn't a terrible story and for it's faults it was still a page turner, I really wanted to get to the end to see who was behind it all. I will go back and read more of Harlan Coben's work I'm sure. Entertaining if slightly flawed read.
The Boy From The Woods is a full of twists and turns as would be expected. The title is slightly misleading as the titular Boy From The Woods isn't the main thrust of the story after finding this mystery boy the story fast forwards 30 years to when he's a man.
The story is a bit convoluted but I guess you have to suspend belief to some extent it involves a missing teenager Naomi, who is found, goes missing again and then another teenager goes missing. Are their disappearances connected? We go back and forth, thinking maybe they aren't, maybe they are. There are a number of sub plots some more satisfying than others.
Wilde who is the boy from the woods goes from being an interesting to a somewhat irritating character at various points in the book. Hester Crimstein is a criminal attorney who also gets involved with the investigation, she's a strong character and well written and believable.
The ending probably has one twist too many, it's like the author is trying to squeeze as many twists as he can from the story and it perhaps doesn't need the final twist.
There is the occasional cringe worthy dialogue and It perhaps wasn't as edgy as I was expecting from the TV adaptations I've seen of his work, but as I've not read any of his other books I'm not sure of that's the way the other books have been adapted or whether it's something with this book in particular.
Having said all that it wasn't a terrible story and for it's faults it was still a page turner, I really wanted to get to the end to see who was behind it all. I will go back and read more of Harlan Coben's work I'm sure. Entertaining if slightly flawed read.