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Summary: GREAT BOOK!!!!
Review: This book was very good. It had alot of action. This is the second book that I have read by Harlan Coben. I plan to read others by this author.I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: Complex, fascinating, but sterile
Review: This book came highly recommended, and that's the power of advertising, I guess. Still, JOL was an interesting read. The mystery is deep, complex, and Coben takes care to tie up all the threads. But for me, I never get a chance to invest in the characters because I'm so busy keeping track of the plot. I got to the end of it and thought, so what?
The book comes seriously close to matching wits with the likes of Koontz (quit groaning) and Patterson, but despite its technical sharpness, it just barely misses the mark for me.
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Summary: A complete waste of paper
Review: Grace Lawson was just a normal housewife until the day she picked up some pictures at the photo shop and found an old picture of her husband in college with four other co-eds whom Grace doesn't know. That night, Grace's husband, Jack, rushes off without explanation. Grace knows he is in danger and accumulates a group of unlikely allies to assist in the search for Jack against the comically caricature villain of Eric Wu.
Really....that's it. Coben couldn't have been any more clearly writing this with the movie contract foremost in his mind. Between the bad prose, the inane plot, and the tacky corporate product placement, this one is a complete waste of paper.
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Summary: Kept me a Harlan Coben fan
Review: I loved this book, I couldn't not put it down. I have read all of Harlan Coben's books and am a huge fan of all of them. His reoccuring character, Myron Bolitar, is missing from this novel but still has many characters that will no doubt keep your interest. I have passed this book along to friends and it has made them fans of Coben also...definitely worth reading!
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Summary: New Fan
Review: I discovered Harlan Coben and his new thriller "Just One Look" by picking up one those cute little free samplers that publishers place in bookstores to promote new books. The sampler included a preview chapter that left me hanging and yearning for more. I went back and bought the book and was hooked right at the beginning when a typical suburban housewife goes to pick up a pack of photos from a photomat and gets home to discover that someone has mistakenly inserted an almost 20 year old photograph of young adults, one of whom looks like a younger version of her husband.
That same night after showing hubby the photo, she hears his car screeching out of the driveway--out of her life. For good, it seems. This book is an emotional rollercoaster and I enjoyed every second of the ride.
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Summary: Full of Twists and Turns
Review: Injured during a stampede at a rock concert more than a decade before, Grace Lawson is unaware when she finds a misplaced photo in her order from a photo shop that this will lead her on a trail full of mystery and intrigue, back to that one day in time. Harlan Coben has written another great mystery, full of twists and turns, one that will leave you guessing until the very end. This was one book I was anxious to return to and didn't want to leave while reading. I really enjoy this author's style.
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Summary: Spellbinding wild ride
Review: Grace Lawson has a good life, a devoted husband, two lovely children, a nice home and a successful career as an artist. One day she discovers a twenty-year old photograph in with a set of newly developed family photographs. In the old photo is a group of young people, one of which looks like her husband. Her husband, Jack, denies that it is he, but he shortly disappears. The police are no help so she delves into Jack's past herself and finds that she really did not know her husband at all. Grace also has a past. She is a survivor of a stampede at a rock concert known as The Boston Massacre. After being nearly crushed to death, Grace became the poster child for the news media. In Grace's search for her husband she discovers that her past and his past are intertwined.
Harlan Coben tells an intriguing story that is as complex as a 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle, but never confusing. There are many twists and turns along the way with a nice surprise ending. It is an engrossing book and was very hard to put down.
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Summary: Just like a stale cigarette, you hate it, but you want it !
Review: What a frustrating disappointment. I enjoyed Coben's earlier work, but this one was truly frustrating and a let down. For those of you smokers out there, its like when you are out of smokes and then you find a stale one, you smoke it, and while you are disgusted by the taste you can't put it down.
It took me over a month to finish this book, while I usually finish these 'novels' in 2-3 days tops, and on occasion I've finished entire books on long flights to Europe.
The book is frustratingly complex, would it have killed Coben to start the book with a press clipping that describes what the Boston Massacre was all about? Why make the plot lines so complicated. I've sworn off the book and put on the bookshelf no less than 5 times, and in the interim I've read three other books. But I keep coming back to finish it..
The most impressive characters; CORA the sultry friend, Perlmutter the aloof police captain, and of course Grace. The lamest; Eric Wu, Vespa, and Jimmy X..
Recommendation; buyers beware, you will finish the book but you will hate every page of it..
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Summary: Superb!
Review: I was given 'Just one look', a superb Harland Coben thriller, by my English teacher to read over our October break - she said that we should be able to finish it by the week we go on work experience, which is a week on Monday.
I finished the book tonight. I found myself literally up every night until around 1/2am reading 50-100 pages each night. The book was ace!
Coben keeps us gripped at every stage, shivers literally run down your spine and you can't stop thinking about what will happen next. I just couldn't handle the late nights turning into sleepless nights filled with the thoughts of what would happen next.
I'd thoroughly recommend this book to all and I'll certainly be taking a read at his other books, which I'm told are equally as good.
Some may say that the last few pages of the book dragged on a little as the story came to a conclusion but, for me, it was perfect. It was a time when I literally found myself saying "ahh... that's why..."
A great read - recommended to all.
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Summary: A Real Twister of a Thriller
Review: "Scott Duncan sat across from the Killer." And so opens JUST ONE LOOK, Harlan Coben's latest thriller. Duncan is an assistant U.S. Attorney and he's meeting a killer on death row, who confesses to killing his sister, as he's trying to clear his conscious before he dies. And this confession sets in motion events that will change Grace Lawson's life forever.
Three months later when Grace picks up a package of photos at the Photomat, she finds one that doesn't belong to her. After a closer inspection, she sees that the photo is years old and that one of the people in the picture appears to be a much younger version of her husband. Later that night she shows the photo to him after scanning a copy onto her hard drive. Her husband takes the picture with him, gets in his van and drives out of Grace's life.
When she goes to the police, they act like they believe he left because of marital problems, but she knows he wouldn't have taken off and left her and the children without a good reason, so she sets about trying to find him herself with the aid of an old Mafia Don who she knows from her past. And it's secrets from her past that will ultimate solve the riddle as to why her husband left in the middle of the night and all of the other riddles Mr. Coben presents in this twister of a thriller.
I was up two nights in a row with this book, hanging on Mr. Coben's every word as I worried about Grace and whether or not she was going to get out of the tangle she was in with her life. This is one fine book that I can't recommend highly enough. Grace was sympathetic, the bad guys were bad, one was gruesome and the mystery was excellent.
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