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Just One Look
Écrit par Harlan Coben
Raconté par Angela Dawe et Luke Daniels
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An ordinary snapshot causes a mother's world to unravel in an instant. After picking up her two young children from school, Grace Lawson looks through a newly developed set of photographs. She finds an odd one in the pack: a mysterious picture from perhaps twenty years ago, showing four strangers she can't identify. But there is one face she recognizes-that of her husband, from before she knew him.
When her husband sees the photo that night, he leaves their home and drives off without explanation. She doesn't know where he's going, or why he's leaving. Or if he's ever coming back. Nor does she realize how dangerous the search for him will be. Because there are others interested in both her husband's past and that photo, including Eric Wu: a fierce, silent killer who will not be stopped from finding his quarry, no matter who or what stands in his way.
Her world turned upside down, filled with doubts about her herself and marriage, Grace must confront the dark corners of her own tragic past as she struggles to learn the truth, find her husband, and save her family.
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Just One Look
Écrit par Harlan Coben
Raconté par Angela Dawe et Luke Daniels
Description
An ordinary snapshot causes a mother's world to unravel in an instant. After picking up her two young children from school, Grace Lawson looks through a newly developed set of photographs. She finds an odd one in the pack: a mysterious picture from perhaps twenty years ago, showing four strangers she can't identify. But there is one face she recognizes-that of her husband, from before she knew him.
When her husband sees the photo that night, he leaves their home and drives off without explanation. She doesn't know where he's going, or why he's leaving. Or if he's ever coming back. Nor does she realize how dangerous the search for him will be. Because there are others interested in both her husband's past and that photo, including Eric Wu: a fierce, silent killer who will not be stopped from finding his quarry, no matter who or what stands in his way.
Her world turned upside down, filled with doubts about her herself and marriage, Grace must confront the dark corners of her own tragic past as she struggles to learn the truth, find her husband, and save her family.
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Excellent read. Literally keeps you guessing until the last word
Rating: 5Enjoyed the book but thought the readers, especially the woman, left a lot to be desired
Rating: 3Good story, but I found the female narrator quite distracting.
Rating: 4WHAT A TWIST.!!! Robotic female narration was challenging but THAT TWIST made it worth sticking it out. Another excellent book Mr. Coben.
Rating: 5Good story but the female narrator has a less than ideal delivery.
Rating: 3The book was great, couldn’t wait to listen to more, hated to stop. Keeps you guessing to the very end. The reader, however, Ms Dawe, could use more inflection in her narrative. Each sentence trails off the same way and is distracting, at least to me. But great book! Looking forward to reading (listening) to more from this author. I like to listen to stories while I work in the house or in the garden. Audiobooks are the best invention since microwave popcorn!
Rating: 4I have never heard a more annoying narrator, the women’s voice is incredibly painful. I couldn’t do it.
Rating: 1Female lead narrating voice was nauseating.
Very difficult to listen to without wincing. Her overall enunciation of common words was terrible.
Rating: 1Very difficult to listen to without wincing. Her overall enunciation of common words was terrible.
This was a little hard to follow on audio, however, once I could remember who each character was, it became a very interesting story.
This was a first read for this author for me and I won't hesitate to pick up another book by him.
The story was very in depth, sometimes too much, however, had a pretty decent ending. It certainly wasn't predictable.
It seemed to me that there were too many characters to follow and keep up with and I don't think the story would have lacked any without a few of them.
I had a rough time in the beginning, however, became very interested throughout the middle of the book. I also believe that if I would have read the story rather than listened to it, that it would have been easier to get into and stay with the story.
Rating: 3This was a first read for this author for me and I won't hesitate to pick up another book by him.
The story was very in depth, sometimes too much, however, had a pretty decent ending. It certainly wasn't predictable.
It seemed to me that there were too many characters to follow and keep up with and I don't think the story would have lacked any without a few of them.
I had a rough time in the beginning, however, became very interested throughout the middle of the book. I also believe that if I would have read the story rather than listened to it, that it would have been easier to get into and stay with the story.
This book has a quick start right out of the gate. You don’t have to wait a long time for something to happen. And it never stops for long. The suspense starts right away and Coben manages to keep it going. There are enough twists and turns and false leads and partial answers that lead to new questions that you don’t lose the tension along the way. There is a lot going on here. You jump from scene to scene and have to keep track of a lot of characters (some of whom you never actually meet) in a complex plot. A very complex plot. There are people who are not who they appear to be, pasts that come back to haunt people, memory loss, creepy killers and just about anything else you can think of. They are all pieces in a puzzle you don’t have the picture for so it is a surprise when you finally see how they all fit together. And the surprises keep coming to the very last page. There are some points that are a bit of a stretch and push you almost to the point of unbelief and it also stops just short of being too convoluted and becoming confusing. But it is written well enough that it never really loses you. It’s a good fast paced thriller.
Rating: 4I took this to read on the plane on the way home from a GREAT vacation--this book got my attention right away but definitely got a bit muddled about halfway in...at least for me. I love these kinds of books but was left wondering why certain things weren't explained (what was the Boston Massacre and why was it so noteworthy). The main character was interesting/complex but there were soooo many characters and it seemed that some of them were just tossed in for no real reason. Suspenseful to be sure...I was going to give it to my sister but I'm pretty sure she'd think it was a waste of time. I just wanted to know how it ended more than I wanted to spend the time getting there.
Rating: 3enjoyed this book, although, the very ending was way more complicated than it needed to be
Rating: 3Grace Lawson finds a mysterious photograph mixed in with her own photographs, then her husband disappears, possibly kidnapped, and Grace is forced to explore his, and her own, past, to try and save him. Often violent, this is a fast read which passed the time nicely without being predictable.
Rating: 4A good page turner with enough twists and turns,but the plot seems to be some what implausible at times.
Rating: 4Slow beginning but got better. Good book for reading on the beach. Twists and turns. Husband with a hidden past takes off when a photo of himself and four other young people (20's) shows up randomly stuck in the middle of a pack of photos his wife had developed.
Rating: 4Harlen Coben is a fantastic author but I have to say that this book was not one of his best. It didn't really suck me in like "The Woods" did. At times it was almost boring and I didn't really care for the protagonist. It was also confusing in places. I'll continue reading Coben's books because I still regard him as one of the best, but I hope the next one I read is better.
Rating: 3This is my first Coben book. It totally held my attention and was a pretty quick read for me. I couldn't wait to figure out who was responsible for Jack's kidnapping. While I felt for Grace who finds herself in a horrible situation, I just didn't really connect with her. She took off on her own search for her husband which seemed unrealistic to me. Especially with two children to protect. I can't imagine myself in that situation but don't think that I would have acted in the same way. Wu was an incredibly creepy killer. The details that emerge about his past and his knowledge of the human body are incredible and bizarre. I was more interested in him and his connection to Grace and her family than I was in some of the other aspects of this book. Overall, this book is hard for me to review. While it's not unforgettable, it's extremely convoluted, wordy and full of people. There are so many characters and so many twists that it was sometimes hard to follow. Even when I found out what I'd wanted to know about the whole scenario, I was still confused, yet I still kind of liked the book. I have two other Coben books in my pile that I'm planning to read. I'm just hoping that they are not all this messy.
Rating: 3When her husband disappears after she discovers a mysterious photograph, Grace Lawson finds herself caught up in a mystery which unveils more and more about her husband's past. This was VERY good, a fast-read with lots of twists - very suspenseful...
Rating: 4Pretty good mystery. I'm not really a mystery reader, but it was entertaining -- lots of twists and turns at the end.
Rating: 2I picked this book out pretty randomly. I had to go to the library for Killing Floor, and when I go pick up something specific I like to pick something random off the shelf near it, preferably something from an author I haven't read. This was pretty good. The story line was… different. Not a traditional mystery. The only problem I really had with is was that I didn't care for the way Grace figures everything out at the end. It's just too tidy. I think the book would have been better without the last chapter.
Rating: 3I actually read this book twice, I kind of skimmed through it, then put it aside and when I finished my library books I picked it up again and read it through, no skimming or skipping. Even knowing how it ended I still couldn't stop reading it.It starts with a US Attorney finding out his sister, whose death was ruled accidental, was actually murdered, then you jump to Grace picking up pictures and getting her son from school, the scary blond Asian guy is here too. You go from one story line to another, characters come and you wonder where they fit and how does it all work out? And yet it is easy to follow. Somehow, he makes it work, you think, there is no way all these different story lines and people are going to come together. The ending is "WOW" and somehow, believable.
Rating: 2Starts off a bit slow, and only really gets suspenseful near the end. Putting all the pieces together can be a bit confusing and forced, and the story ends about 4 times. Good, but not best.
Rating: 3Not as good as 'No Second Chance.' I found the blend of violence and ordinary suburbia a bit too raw for my taste.Coben certain created engaging characters.Some quotes;'I'm a swarm of useless facts.'Being a mother, Grace thought, was a lot like being an artist -- you are always insecure, you always feel like a phony, you know that everybody else is better at it than you. The mothers who doted obsessively on their offspring, the ones who performed the numbing tasks with that Stepford-ready smile and supernatural patience -- you know, those mothers, always, have the right supplies for the ideal after-school craft ... Grace suspected that these women were profoundly disturbed.
Rating: 1I can't believe how talented Coben is. I just love his books and my review won't give him the credit he deserves. I haven't read all of his books yet, far from it, but this is my favourite so far. What a thrill ride!
Rating: 5Great audio book because it keeps the suspense up and spins a good tale.
Rating: 4Brilliant,outstanding,superb my world stopped until I reached the final page.
Rating: 5Another powerful story, not a Myron Bolitar novel, this time. A happily married wife picks up some holiday photos, finds an odd old photo of her husband and this leads her into a terrifying world as her husband disappears.Excellent plotting which leads you a merry dance until the final threads come neatly together.
Rating: 5The ending was such a let down! The whole book built up to blah. You wait the whole time to find out this big secret and when you do discover it, you hope there is something else going on because that secret was the pits!
Rating: 1Her husband's disappeared, her kids have been threatened, the police don't believe her, and all her friends seem to have something to hide.
Rating: 4