06-25-2007, 06:54 PM
I read Coben's "The Innocent" not too long ago and enjoyed it, so hoped this would be more along those lines. This one's not as good. What is it lately with me and books with indestructible, unassailable heroes? You never really think -- although the story clearly COULD have led you there and SHOULD have led you there -- that the lead character ever did anything wrong or would do anything wrong. I should have been wondering the entire book, is the killer the real killer or the only killer or was there someone else and is that someone else one of the two heroes, and I never wondered or accepted that either one was a possibility. In fact, I gave up caring about half way through. If I didn't have an exceedingly long flight with nothing else to do, I might not have bothered finishing it.
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.