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Summary of Fool Me Once by Harlan Coben: A Summary and Analysis
A Note To Readers: This is a SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS of Fool Me Once by Harlan Coben, and NOT THE FULL BOOK.
Maya is shocked to see her dead husband playing with her daughter on the recently-installed nanny cam. Can she untangle the web of deceit that surrounds her and her family before it is too late?
Includes a chapter-by-chapter summary, as well as a full character list and other story elements.
Maya is shocked to see her dead husband playing with her daughter on the recently-installed nanny cam. Can she untangle the web of deceit that surrounds her and her family before it is too late?
Includes a chapter-by-chapter summary, as well as a full character list and other story elements.
18 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 22, 2016
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October 15, 2018
Henny Bogan Does Fool Me Once
Although I am not a Harlan Coben aficionado, I have read several of his books and thoroughly enjoyed them all and that’s why this one is a let- down almost from the beginning. Heroine Maya is attempting to find the killers of her husband, but she is saddled with some awful memories of her days in the armed services in which she committed an atrocity in order to save two young soldiers. Here is where the biggest lapse lies….we are never told exactly what the atrocity was, although several miniscule hints are dropped along the way. Coben creates a Gaslight aura about Maya where unseen forces are trying to drive her over the edge, an all too common plot ploy in current fiction. Such as, people formerly killed are now suspiciously alive and what’s a decent girl to think. Along the way, she meets interesting characters although she is never certain of how trustworthy they may be. Quite enjoyable is the dialogue, and lots of it in places where other books don’t even have places. Spoiler alert – the heroine who is pretty much the entire story – gets bumped off near the end. But wait, there’s more….the last chapter is supposedly an update twenty-five years into the future and as updates goes, this one has to be the most unsatisfying in the history of literature.
Alas, to his discredit, Coben tries to rationalize Maya’s death as something beneficial to others and that is where I got off this train. So, amorphous characters, good dialogue, shifty plot and unsatisfying ending all add up to not his best.
Although I am not a Harlan Coben aficionado, I have read several of his books and thoroughly enjoyed them all and that’s why this one is a let- down almost from the beginning. Heroine Maya is attempting to find the killers of her husband, but she is saddled with some awful memories of her days in the armed services in which she committed an atrocity in order to save two young soldiers. Here is where the biggest lapse lies….we are never told exactly what the atrocity was, although several miniscule hints are dropped along the way. Coben creates a Gaslight aura about Maya where unseen forces are trying to drive her over the edge, an all too common plot ploy in current fiction. Such as, people formerly killed are now suspiciously alive and what’s a decent girl to think. Along the way, she meets interesting characters although she is never certain of how trustworthy they may be. Quite enjoyable is the dialogue, and lots of it in places where other books don’t even have places. Spoiler alert – the heroine who is pretty much the entire story – gets bumped off near the end. But wait, there’s more….the last chapter is supposedly an update twenty-five years into the future and as updates goes, this one has to be the most unsatisfying in the history of literature.
Alas, to his discredit, Coben tries to rationalize Maya’s death as something beneficial to others and that is where I got off this train. So, amorphous characters, good dialogue, shifty plot and unsatisfying ending all add up to not his best.
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