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A review by zorhose
The Woods by Harlan Coben
3.0
meh. at some point this was building up to something promising but then it lost me.
i'll admit this is not my familiar genre, so i don't know the standards and conventions, but that usually means i'm easily impressed. here, i rarely felt surprised even when twists did take place.
i didn't like Cope. to me he was a prime example of "men written by men". i might dig through my copy later and edit this with some examples, but he was giving casually misogynistic, sometimes racist remarks throughout the entire book. i guess i still didn't completely hate him and there were other characters that were more annoying, but if there's a first person narrator with these kind of flaws it always makes me wonder about the author.
in general i felt like the message and the theme of the book were quite muddled. but maybe that's on me for going into a thriller with the expectation that there will be a message. as i said i'm new to the genre.
this wasn't awful. i had fun and it kept my interest while reading it, but the ending felt rushed and unsatisfying which dampered my reading experience. i might still watch the netflix show that the unremovable sticker on the book cover advertised. we'll see.
i'll admit this is not my familiar genre, so i don't know the standards and conventions, but that usually means i'm easily impressed. here, i rarely felt surprised even when twists did take place.
i didn't like Cope. to me he was a prime example of "men written by men". i might dig through my copy later and edit this with some examples, but he was giving casually misogynistic, sometimes racist remarks throughout the entire book. i guess i still didn't completely hate him and there were other characters that were more annoying, but if there's a first person narrator with these kind of flaws it always makes me wonder about the author.
in general i felt like the message and the theme of the book were quite muddled. but maybe that's on me for going into a thriller with the expectation that there will be a message. as i said i'm new to the genre.
this wasn't awful. i had fun and it kept my interest while reading it, but the ending felt rushed and unsatisfying which dampered my reading experience. i might still watch the netflix show that the unremovable sticker on the book cover advertised. we'll see.