Six Years

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But it is a romance. It’s a romance written by one of America’s best-selling suspense writers; it’s a romance seen only from the perspective of a guy who didn’t really understand the life of the love of his life; and, yes, it’s a romance written by a man who I dare say hasn’t paid any attention to the conventions of or expectations in the romance genre. At its end, I believed in Jake’s love for Natalie in the then and in the now. I give it a B+ as a thriller and a C as a romance. The style and narrative of this novel reminded very much of Linwood Barclay but without the character depth and development and with a really weak plot. Harlan Coben is an international No.1 bestselling thriller author. He is the winner of the EDGAR, SHAMUS and ANTHONY AWARDs - the first to receive all three. His books are published in 40 languages, with over 47 million copies in print worldwide.

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I haven't read anything else by Harlan Coben, so I can't really say if this is consistent with his other work. I found that although this story is fast paced and an easy read, it's also very compartmentalized. Mystery should surprise you and keep you on your toes, but everything from the generic romantic woes to the ending was very linear and mechanized. I think Harlan Coben's writing seems a little outdated sometimes, and it shows his age (but not necessarily in a flattering way). The worst thing, and what makes this entire novel unbelievable, is that this guy had a 3-month fling with a woman 6 years ago, and is hell bent on finding her because the man she assumed to be her husband was murdered. He continues in his ridiculous pursuit after running into a corrupt police force, being beaten into unconsciousness and barely escaping with his life, being kidnapped by the mafia, killing a mobster hitman and barely escaping with his life, going after a guy in the mafia, hunting down this woman's sister and mother, finding out that his best friend is involved in the conspiracy and says he will kill him if he goes any further, and on and on and on. This is a novel by Harlan Coben and so naturally, things will get increasingly stranger as the story progresses. Jake launches a determined effort to find Natalie, only to discover that powerful forces are arrayed against him and that he and any number of others may be in deadly danger if he persists in his search. This novel was no exception. Jake Fisher, a young handsome college Professor, has never recovered from losing Natalie, the love of his life six years ago when she inexplicably dumped him after a perfect summer romance and promptly married an old flame. Since then he has had a few short term relationships but no one has been able to come close to replacing Natalie. He loves his teaching job at his small East coast college and is popular with the students and has a good drinking buddy amongst the staff. However, one day he sees something that makes him wonder what really happened with Natalie and as he starts to look into past events, gets himself and a lot of other people into a whole world o With Six Years, the author shows once more how it’s done…furious plot twists…[a] subtle stunner.”— The Washington PostWe both stood from the big oak table and shook hands. She held mine a second longer than she had to so I disengaged intentionally fast. No, this doesn’t happen all the time. But it does happen. I’m thirty-five now, but when I first started here—the young professor in his twenties—it happened more often. Do you remember that scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark where one student wrote “LOVE YOU” on her eyelids? Something like that happened to me in my first semester. Except the first word wasn’t “LOVE” and the second word had been switched from “YOU” to “ME.” I don’t flatter myself about it. We professors are in a position of fairly immense power. The men who fall for this or believe that they are somehow worthy of such attention (not to be sexist, but it was almost always men) are usually more insecure and needy than any daddy-issued coed one might happen upon. Six years have passed since Jake Fisher watched Natalie, the love of his life, marry another man. Six years of keeping his promise to leave Natalie alone, and six years of tortured dreams of her life with her new husband, Todd. So when Jake comes across Todd’s obituary, he can’t keep himself away from the funeral. There he gets the glimpse of Todd’s wife he’s hoping for....

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I realized I actually missed this-reading a plain ole mystery thriller like I used to in the good old days when the only authors I knew were James Patterson, Dan Brown, John Grisham and David Baldacci. Add in Jude Deveraux and Danielle Steel even though these last two are romance writers. Lol. Mr. Coben’s style though is up-to-date. He has certainly kept up with the times because his narrative is relatable, believable (with the exception of that part where the hero dials certain phone numbers by heart-lol!) and hilarious. Take a peek. That quote above is the opening line of the book. I mean, come on! How could I not keep on reading after that? Mr. Harlan Coben sure does know to put his readers on a spell. This is actually my first read from him and already I’m looking up the rest of his other books so I could add them on my reading list.All this, for a THREE MONTH FLING SIX YEARS AGO. It is the most unrealistic scenario Mr. Coben has ever penned. Creating circumstances that are unbelievable and far fetched works in a thriller because not everyone can conceive of those situations or relate. However, creating entirely unbelievable and unrealistic characters and unrealistic responses to situations that are commonplace to every reader, makes the entire thing feel fraudulent. It's almost as though Mr. Coben has never actually experienced a summer fling, or a broken heart, or a lost love. These are common things that occur to everyone. And not a single one of them reacts in anywhere near the obsessive and stalker-ish manner that "Jake Fisher, college professor" reacts. Forget all the crazy stuff he ran into that CLEARLY tells him to just walk away, the initial desire to hunt down a woman who left you 6 years ago after 3 months just does not resonate. It's soooooooo far-fetched. It's even more far-fetched than a secret organization who trains and hides people, or the mafia putting a hit out on a professor who gave the boss's son a bad grade. All that stuff works in fiction. But this pathetic character is just not realistic to be the protagonist of a novel. I haven't read a book by Harlan Coben for quite some time and I'd forgotten how good it is to cosy up with a book of his for a couple of hours. His plots are always well constructed with a puzzling mystery that takes a few twists and turns and keeps you thinking right up to the end. His characters are all interesting and well fleshed out so that you come to care about what happens to them.

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There were twists and turns with every chapter, questions that wouldn't go away but would gain momentum. This was incredibly well written and really challenged my sleuthing skills.

Now my disguise is simpler: I’ve shaved my head. My dome gleams. If I wore a gold earring, you’d mistake me for Mr. Clean.” But six years haven't come close to extinguishing his feelings, and when Jake comes across Todd's obituary, he can't keep himself away from the funeral. There he gets the glimpse of Todd's wife he's hoping for - but she is not Natalie. Whoever the mourning widow is, she's been married to Todd for almost two decades, and with that fact everything Jake thought he knew about the best time of his life - a time he has never gotten over - is turned completely inside out. Auch der Schreibstil hat mir gut gefallen. Wir lesen die Geschichte aus der Sicht von Jake, so dass wir ihn hautnah bei seiner Suche begleiten und seine Gefühle teilen können.

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Lots of characters in this one, but not in a confusing way. The plot was brilliant in my opinion. It took me out of my romance zone and made me want to stay there. The connections between everything were fabulous, very tight and thorough. I never figured anything out before I was told, either. It is only at the funeral, will he know that Todd was never married to Natalie, the widow he finds at the funeral was married to Todd for over a decade. Then where is Natalie? Why did she lie to him? And the wedding? And where was she all these years? Was she alive or dead? And the promise she so forced him to make - Leave us alone, what did it suggest? Was there a deadly secret to all of this? But six years haven’t come close to extinguishing his feelings, and when Jake comes across Todd’s obituary, he can’t keep himself away from the funeral. There he gets the glimpse of Todd’s wife he’s hoping for…but she is not Natalie.Mr. Coben is a superb suspense writer. He wastes few words here and though the reader gleans early the overt reason Natalie vanished, the specifics of that remain tantalizingly out of reach. Everyone Jake talks to, indeed every conversation he has, leads inexorably to the novel’s tense climax. This is one of those thrillers that, as soon as I finished it, I read it again just to see all that, though right under my reading glasses, I’d not understood the significance of the first time around. Six Years is not Mr. Coben’s best novel–my favorite is Hold Tight although many love his Myron Bolitar series–but it’s a well-crafted, exciting read.