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I wish I trusted my instincts after the first eye rolling moment in this book, but I've read other books by this author so I thought I'd give him the benefit of the doubt. I shouldn't have, because it was just one ridiculous plot twist and unbelievable scene after another. Rather than being a mystery thriller--It is more like a comedy--Maybe they should get Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn for the movie version. Jake gets the crap beat out of him, knocked unconscious by a baseball bat to the head, then wakes up--Jumps through a window to escape, puts a band-aid on his forehead and he's fine? Hmm, okay. Well maybe I should have played a drinking game , and took a shot every time Jake tells the reader or another character about how much he loves Natalie. If I did, I'd be dead of alcohol poisoning half-way through this waste of time. My advice is to trust your gut the first time you have one of those "Aw, come on" moments. It doesn't get better, you'll just get more and more angry that you've wasted your time on this.

An author shouldn't just get to slide by with junk because they've had success in the past with good work, it's deceitful to the reader and it's a cheat to get their money.


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Six Years Harlan Coben 9780525953487 Books Reviews

This book was terrible predictable from the start! Tries to get into the head of the main character, Jake, but ends up making him seem stupid and unable to solve problems. Good POV roaming from first person to third, but not used to the book's advantage -- that is, if you have several POV's, you should be immersed in the mindset of several characters -- in varying degrees. Not so here. Don't like Jake, don't like or understand Natalie, ending is unbelievable. Too many charaters make the pace fast, but does ot make the book exciting or interesting. Cut half the charaters out; develop the others, bury the plot peripities so they surprise, not bore the reader. Coben seems to have talent -- edit for clarity, cut out excess characters, remove repetition-- the reader is not stupid.
I've not read Coben before but relied on the overall rating for this book which was WAY too high in my opinion. The voice immediately annoyed me, similar to Catcher in the Rye, where I'm hearing every thought and question in this guy's head. The main character is supposed to be a college professor, youngest to become head of his political science department, yet speaks and thinks like a teenager complete with cliches from the 80's. I actually checked the publishing date on this book to see if it was written 30 years ago. As the story progresses, there is no reason I want this guy to EVER find his ex-lover. He's delusional, immature, careless, and selfish..all in the name of a relationship that lasted a few months. I'm not describing a complex character development but rather an unbelievable protagonist. I would not recommend this book to anyone.
Jake Fisher fell in love with Natalie six years ago when each was attending a retreat. The affair was short, and was ended when Natalie told Jake she was marrying another man (Todd, an old boyfriend for whom she still had feelings) and asked Jake not to interfere in her new life. For six years, Jake has honored her request, but has continued to love Natalie with the kind of devotion that only a Coben fan or a Knight of the Round Table could relate to. Jake learns that Natalie's husband has died, and decides to attend the funeral, supposedly just to check in on the lost love of his life. Imagine his surprise when he learns that Todd's wife is not Natalie at all, but another woman to whom he has been married for twenty years. Jake determines to get to the bottom of the mystery. It's an intriguing premise, but from there, the story goes very wrong.

The driver of all the action in this book is Jake's undying devotion to Natalie, and while Coben routinely employs protagonists who carry their feelings for unattainable women on their sleeves, when that devotion takes over the character's life, that devotion makes him more creepy than likable. Add to that that much of the action in Six Years is unbelievable (Jake kills a man that attacks him, then attends the funeral for clues after the police identify him for Jake) and you have a very unsatisfying book. Harlan Coben is a good writer, but I frankly couldn't tell whether he was writing a love story with thriller aspects or a thriller with a love angle. Either way, this book doesn't work for me.
I wish I trusted my instincts after the first eye rolling moment in this book, but I've read other books by this author so I thought I'd give him the benefit of the doubt. I shouldn't have, because it was just one ridiculous plot twist and unbelievable scene after another. Rather than being a mystery thriller--It is more like a comedy--Maybe they should get Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn for the movie version. Jake gets the crap beat out of him, knocked unconscious by a baseball bat to the head, then wakes up--Jumps through a window to escape, puts a band-aid on his forehead and he's fine? Hmm, okay. Well maybe I should have played a drinking game , and took a shot every time Jake tells the reader or another character about how much he loves Natalie. If I did, I'd be dead of alcohol poisoning half-way through this waste of time. My advice is to trust your gut the first time you have one of those "Aw, come on" moments. It doesn't get better, you'll just get more and more angry that you've wasted your time on this.

An author shouldn't just get to slide by with junk because they've had success in the past with good work, it's deceitful to the reader and it's a cheat to get their money.