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Fool Me Once

Harlan Coben

3.72 AVERAGE

mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Read this on the plane and zipped right through it. It's a fun read, meaning it has a lot of twists and turns, though perhaps a little dark at times. But that's what makes the story so enticing. A easy story to get through that's entertaining and rather satisfying.
adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No

3.5*
mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
challenging mysterious tense fast-paced

WTF?

Had to read this one for the book club I host at work (side note, I tried to pick good books after our summer break, hoping to never have to write one of these grumpy reviews again).

I don't even know what I just spent 10 hours of my life listening to. The end completely negates everything we spent the book learning about. It felt like twists were thrown in abundantly just for the sake of saying there were lots of twists, but with no consideration for how realistic or contradictory those twists turned out to be.

Technology references make no damn sense, but are mentioned repeatedly. Can only assume he's banking on an older audience, hence trying to explain technology over and over again, but said technology doesn't really work that way at all? If I hear the words SD card ever again in my life, it will be too soon.

And seriously,
Spoiler why did we spend all this time sorting out a mystery that Maya HAD ALREADY SOLVED??


Ugh, just really, REALLY grumpy about this one. Bye Harlan Coben, never again.
emotional medium-paced