Rating  - Great Book- Impossible to Put Down
I love Coben's writing, his heroes are ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations and they wrestle with ordinary issues that become extraordinary. This book focuses on a family with two professional parents-- Dad is a surgeon and Mom is a lawyer and they have a teen-aged son and a pre-teen daughter. Mom and Dad are concerned about the son so they put a snooper on his computer that captures and records his keystrokes. The doctor debates this with himself while the lawyer is more certain-- they should do whatever it takes to get their son to adulthood. The boy goes missing one night and the doctor uses a GPS tracking system in the boy's cell phone to try to track him.
Coben picks his way through the various plot and storylines with grace, focusing on his theme-- the meaning of family with each different story arc. Not only is this book a taut, suspenseful read, but it is a tribute to the strength of family ties. Whether you agree with the way Mike and Tia Baye go about trying to protect their son, you cannot escape the fact that they love him desperately. The conclusion of the book is satisfying and gratifying, and, if you are a parent, will make you want to hug your kids extra closely to your side.
Rating - A thriller
A thriller!! I kept imagining my grandchildrens' reaction if they were
confronted with a similar situation, and hoping their parents had forwarned them about this. I truly identified with the characters.
Rating  - Better Hold Tight
This book was intense. There are several storylines and characters in this book. There is are trust issues, suicide, child in need of transplant and others. Each story is never dull and Coben brings them all together at the end quite nicely. The only problem with the book is that the author would intensely write about a situation and the characters involved and then he would quickly switch gears in the next chapter and with the large group of characters sometimes you would forget who was who. I will definitely read this book again in the future.
Rating  - There's Something Rotten in the Town of Livingstone New Jersey
Even though this is a stand alone book, it has many of the standard characters from the previous Paul "Cope" Copeland/Loren Muse book "The Woods". It's not a sequel as much as it's a continuation of them and their careers. But do not fear, even though Myron Bolitar's name is never mentioned, his shadow is ever present.
Almost all of the action occurs in Essex County New Jersey and around Myron home town of Livingstone. The wife of the main character is a lawyer who works for Hester Crimstein's law firm (Myron's so-called Aunt). The best friend of the main character is dating a woman who used to be a wrestler under the name of Pocohontas. Actually, it was Little Pocohontas (and Big Cindy), and in "real" life she is Esperanza Diaz a partner/lawyer in Myron's sports agent agency.
Now to the story. A few month's ago, a teenager committed suicide on the roof of the local high school. In a span of two days, two woman are murdered after being abducted from the area. Amazingly enough, these two seemingly random events will eventually become part of a larger story relating to pharm parties, drug dealing, homicidal maniacs, retribution and revenge, and the odd rape thrown in.
I found the ending a little hard to swallow, just too many coincidences.
Zeb Kantrowitz
Rating - Wow! And all this happened, where???
I must say, if this book represents a departure for the author, then, I think he may have gone down the wrong road. I will say that he was absolutely right...there is nothing worse, or no fear so great, as the thought of danger to those that we love. While reading the book, I found it engrossing, but extremely unsettling. In other words, it was not a book I particularly enjoyed reading, even though I read every word and it was extremely fast paced. Bottom line, the book upset me. It cut too close to home with thoughts of my own family.
However, twenty-four hours after I finished it, I was able to look back and realize that it was after all, a book, it was fiction, and, most importantly, totally unbelievable that all of that would have happened to one small community. I think the author went out of control as the story unraveled and more and more horrible things were happening to more and more people...
I just have one thing to say to the characters in the book. You guys really need to move!
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