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Book Review of Fool Me Once

Fool Me Once
Fool Me Once
Author: Harlan Coben
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Book Type: Hardcover
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I wasn't sure how to rate this and went back and forth between the 2 or 3 stars and 2 won.

Coben is a good writer and has written some very good stories but this one is very lacking.

1. moves very very slow
2. story didn't get really started until about 100 pages into it and by that time I was getting bored, around page 200 I skipped about 100 pages and I didn't miss anything
3. no suspense, no 'thriller' involved
4. mystery? not much it's too easy to figure out
5. storyline that has been told over and over and by the end you already know all the answers and 'who dunnit'
6. the ending was not very good at all and ended 25 years later---sorry spoiler

I keep reading his books because I know he can write a good one but this wasn't one of them.