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A review by cekisha
The Woods by Harlan Coben
2.0
Meh. This is how I felt when I finished the book. And 'meh' is never good, because it means that the book wasn't able to even provoke some stronger emotion.
The book started out as an easy read, and it was interesting until I realized that it was just going on and on, I was becoming bored and I even stopped caring about the case. The main case about the wood is the reason why the whole book is doomed to be 'meh'. I thought that maybe I was being unfair to Mr Coben because his book hadn't lived up to my perverse expectations, (I guess nowadays we are simply accustomed/or forced to be accustomed to the terrible crimes), but this one was simply nothing special. The other crime about the raped African-American girl that was going on at the same time was also boring and I didn't care about it and I guess it existed only to make the book longer. The end was also left vague, the main male character can be described as a dull and indifferent man. The action is also slow-paced, no interesting evidence, the characters are stereotypical, to cut the long story short, nothing interesting was going on.
Just a big meh.
The book started out as an easy read, and it was interesting until I realized that it was just going on and on, I was becoming bored and I even stopped caring about the case. The main case about the wood is the reason why the whole book is doomed to be 'meh'. I thought that maybe I was being unfair to Mr Coben because his book hadn't lived up to my perverse expectations, (I guess nowadays we are simply accustomed/or forced to be accustomed to the terrible crimes), but this one was simply nothing special. The other crime about the raped African-American girl that was going on at the same time was also boring and I didn't care about it and I guess it existed only to make the book longer. The end was also left vague, the main male character can be described as a dull and indifferent man. The action is also slow-paced, no interesting evidence, the characters are stereotypical, to cut the long story short, nothing interesting was going on.
Just a big meh.