"Three days before her death, my mother told me these weren't her last words, but they were pretty close that my brother was still alive." Gone for Good is not so differrent from Tell No One. I was astounded how these books started off the same with the main character making an assumption that the death person is still alive. While Tell No One packs with action and gutwrenching scenes, Gone for Good is full of drama and heartbreaking stories. I enjoyed Gone for Good since the first few chapte

I’m a big fan of Harlan Coben, but this book is really dark with very little of the trademark Coben humor. When Will Klein was a teenager, his older brother supposedly murdered his girlfriend and then vanished. It’s now 11 years later, his mother recently deceased and Will has proof that Ken is still alive. But that’s not all, his girlfriend has also disappeared and the FBI is looking for her. This story is action packed. There are lots of moving parts and quite a few twists I didn’t see coming....

GONE FOR GOOD has so many surprising twists and turns to make it another most enjoyable read by HARLAN COBEN which gets a 4.5 star rating from me!I really like this authors writing style and his dialogue is terrific throughout this novel. Most of the chapters were nice and short with most having some type of revelation to keep you interested and wanting to keep turning those pages. The plot was filled with lots of twists at a surprising speed that kept me totally engaged in what I was reading. I...

Yes, I did it again. I am addicted. It's like crack. or the crack of an ass. I can feel the damage being done to my brain as I read page after implausible page and I wince at phrase after ham-handed phrase but still I keep going. As McDonalds is to one's arteries so is Coben to ones brain. What is the cranial equivalent of an oxygen tank and an electric wheel chair, and a long day spent drooling through the aisles at Wal-mart? That is what Coben is, what he does to me. God, I hate him. God, I ha...

FROM THE BLURBAs a boy, Will Klein had a hero: his older brother, Ken. Then, on a warm suburban night in the Kleins’ affluent New Jersey neighborhood, a young woman—a girl Will had once loved—was found brutally murdered in her family’s basement. The prime suspect: Ken Klein. With the evidence against him overwhelming, Ken simply vanished. And when his shattered family never heard from Ken again, they were sure he was gone for good.Now eleven years have passed. Will has found proof that Ken is al...

Will Klein's character is marvelous. This story had more twists and turns than words can convey, maybe a few too many, which is why I'm giving it four stars rather than five. To write a synopsis of this book would be damned near impossible because of allllllllllll that's going on.The basic premise is that as a young man, Will is close to his girlfriend and his older brother, up until the point where his girlfriend breaks up with him. A year later, she is found strangled to death, and his older b...

There is no getting away from it Harlan Coben knows how to enthral his readers.This was heading for a 5/5 star review until, that is, I got to the end. The end was a real let down and for that reason it got 4/5 stars. But the other 90% was a nail bitter.Will Klein is a quiet, unassuming young man but a young man who has seen more than his fair share of trouble. People that are special to him keep dying. His first true love in murdered and the bother he idolises is accused for her death. The brot...

Salacious suspense. This reads like a tawdry daytime soap opera, but with a higher body count.So, this happened. It wasn't bad, but the new character every chapter and ever-increasing slide into moral turpitude in this Disturbia Hell came across heavy-handed and spectacle driven. There was a decoupage mentality to the reveal of the storyline by pasting on a new "shocking" aka wildly stereotypical development. Subtle it is not. There were some great underlying themes like face value, redemption,

This was another brilliant offering from my favourite author. There is never one page that does not keep you captivated; I even did some read aloud chapters, the writing so smooth it flows seamlessly and holds the attention of someone not even reading the book!Every protag in HC’s stories seem to possess an inordinate amount of wit, it is a natural fit for him, and I think is part of his success. Even in deep and dire situations they keep going with their life and deathness with always a smatter...

4.5 actually. I had forgotten what a great story Coben puts together. Along with great characters, superb plotting and writing; and unputdownable. So many twists and turns. But never was I, in retrospect, lead down a blind alley.

My first favorite read of 2016! Holy cow, I had hunches, I solved some clues, I even thought out the chain of events. NEVER in a million years would I have seen the ending coming. Brilliant, clever, and an emphatically cunning crime mystery!!! Bravo Harlan Coben!! A must-read for my fellow readers. I couldn't put the book down it was so white-knuckle gripping!

GONE FOR GOOD is a fast paced thriller with at least 60 plot twists, turns or startling revelations (I catalogued them.) Typical of the genre, it is plot rather than character driven. Even the best characters are a bit shallow, and you will have to accept some improbable ones. Dialogue is written well. Otherwise, the writing is simple - if you got through third grade you won't need a dictionary - although after some stretches of short choppy sentences and dangling phrases you might wish for some...

"The truth is, we are mere animals, organisms, even, slightly more complex than your basic paramecium. You die, you're gone. It was pure megalomania to think we humans are somehow above death, that we, unlike any other creature, have the ability to transcend it. In life, sure, we are special, dominant, because we are the strongest and most ruthless. We rule. But in death, to believe that we are somehow special in God's eyes, that we can worm our way into his good graces by kissing his ass, well,...