Review: Gone Before Goodbye - Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben - October 2025 I'll be honest with you—when I first heard about this collaboration, I raised an eyebrow. I'm a die-hard Harlan Coben fan, and the thought of him co-writing with Reese Witherspoon had me a little worried. Would it still have that signature Coben punch? Would it feel diluted? Friends, I'm thrilled to report that this book absolutely blew my expectations out of the water. From the very first page, I was completely hooked. If you took Ruth Ware's Zero Days, threw in the adrenaline-pumping action of The Bourne Identity, and sprinkled in some Mission Impossible impossibly high stakes, you'd get Gone Before Goodbye. It's that addictive. Our protagonist, Maggie McCabe, is the kind of character you instantly root for. She's a brilliant Army combat surgeon who's always thrived in high-pressure situations , the kind of person who runs toward danger while everyone else is runnin...

  Review: I Will Find You - Harlan Coben - March 2023 I had been so excited to read this book as I kept thinking to myself how does this work? How does a dad go to prison for murdering his son and then for his son to have been alive all this time? Did they not follow due course and policies and procedures as this does not make sense to me at all? After reading this book, I could understand but I still am in two minds about this book and where I sit with this book. I wanted to love it and it was a great mystery read but as someone who watches a lot of crime TV shows and reads a lot of thrillers, I felt this one had a lot of plot holes that would never happen in real life and to be honest someone as prolific as Harlan Coben would have known better.  I didn't intend this review to become ranty but parts frustrated me as our main character who by the way was a loving husband is accused of brutally murdering his son which by the way, he doesn't remember as he didn't do it. We...

Review: The Match - Book #2 Wilde Series - Harlan Coben - March 2022 I have always been a fan of Harlan Coben's books and though I haven't read Book #1 which now I do as it sounds interesting; I was able to read Book #2 and understand it. In The Match, we meet Wilde who was found in the woods as a young boy and taken under the wing of Hester and Ira Crimstein after he became good friends with her son David. Reading this book, I was trying to remember where I had read about Hester and then I clicked, she is the lawyer friend of Myron Bolitar who had his series by Harlan Coben and often Hester featured in the series. In Book #2 of the Wilde series - It's a Match. Wilde has put his DNA on a site to try and see if it will lead him to any clues about who he is and why he was left abandoned in the forest. It leads him to a potential father - Dan Carter. Things though are a bit sketchy as one minute Dan is there and the next, he has disappeared from the face of the earth and all...