The Innocent
Written by Harlan Coben
Narrated by Dylan Baker
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
Harlan Coben
With more than seventy million books in print worldwide, Harlan Coben is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of numerous suspense novels, including Don't Let Go, Home, and Fool Me Once, as well as the multi-award-winning Myron Bolitar series. His books are published in forty-three languages around the globe and have been number one bestsellers in more than a dozen countries. He lives in New Jersey.
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Reviews for The Innocent
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5It took me a while to get into this one, but once the story really gets going, it's an exciting read. Many characters are too forced in their 'hipness' and the plot could be stronger. Fair overall.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Accidentally kills a kid when trying to break up a fight. Years later when he's released from prison he returns home and faces suspicion when others begin to die.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Reformed convict, murdered nun, search for adopted child's birth mother, crooked law enforcement. Very involved with a lot of characters and the subplots and characters were more interesting the main characters.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Hmmm. Not a bad book by any means, but having got to the end I'm still not one hundred percent clear on what happened. There were an awful lot of people, an awful lot of interwoven motives, and the result was like a seriously bad knot on my six year old's shoelaces that I can't seem to unpick. Also, I had difficulty swallowing the central change-of-identity...the complete personality and life change felt unlikely, somehow.On the other hand, Coben writes extremely well - the book is easy to read, full of interesting characters, and great dialogue. The action starts straight away and keeps going throughout. Some sections definitely had me on the edge of my seat. If I have a criticism on style, it's that many of the male law-enforcement characters seemed rather similar, becoming one amorphous mass of paunchy middle-aged wisecracking world-weary smugness (at least in my head). Oh, and I guessed the final 'twist', but that's about the only bit I did guess.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5As always Coben takes you on a rollercoaster ride with this novel. A good read with a likeable main character, suspense, tension and lots of twists.Back Cover Blurb:One night, Matt Hunter innocently tried to break up a fight - and ended up a killer. Now, nine years later, he's an ex-con who takes nothing for granted. His wife, Olivia, is pregnant, and the two of them are closing on their dream house. But all it will take is one shocking, inexplicable call from Olivia's cell phone to shatter Matt's life a second time....
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The horror of one night etched in Matt Hunter's memory:the night he innocently tried to break up a fight-and ended up a killer. Now nine years after his release from prison, his innocence long forgotten, he's an ex-con who takes nothing for granted. With his wife Oliver pregnant and the two of them closing on a house in his home town, things are looking up. Until the day Matt gets a shocking inexplicable video call from Oliver's cell phone and in an instant, the unraveling begins
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A story about how one small event can have a life altering change. Matt is born into a great, middle class family and, in college, an accident changes the path his future will take. Olivia is dealt a different hand and creates the world she had always dreamed of when an accident allows her the opportunity. Through the story, the truths are unraveled.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A great read
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5A young man convicted in the death of a college student is haunted by that death 10 years later. This is not the Harlan Coben I remember. Although the plot was sufficiently twisted to keep all the pieces from falling into place until the very end, I was never totally convinced of either the characters or the situation. But it was entertaining nonetheless.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A quick page-turner.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Gripping and suspenseful.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gripping and suspenseful.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Matt Hunter's whole life changed the day he stepped into stop a fight at a frat party. The day he and Stephen McGrath fell to the ground, and Stephen died. Now, after serving time in prison for Stephen's death, Matt struggles to keep it together "in the real world." He's now married, expecting his first child, and buying a house in the neighborhood he grew up in. Everything seems to be going well, until he gets two strange picture messages on his cellphone from his wife's phone. As he tries to sort out his emotions and figure out what's going on, he's suddenly a suspect for the murder of a nun, whom he never met. As the days go on, he becomes the suspect of three murders. He's being set-up, and doesn't know why, until his wife reveals her past. The clock is ticking and he has to put the pieces together before he gets sent back to prison for murders he didn't commit. But who did? And, why?
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Usual Harlan Coben clever plotting and red herrings which keep you guessing up until the final pages. A small town lawyer's wife goes missing after he confronted her about a secret revealed to him by a stranger and his life is never the same again.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Having been in jail, Matt Hunter builds a new life for himself, but a video sent to his phone sends him on a search for the truth. Fast-paced with lots of twists.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Excellent suspense and very different from his series books. Perfectly appropriate for high school readers as well.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The first of Coben's books I've read, I wasn't as impressed with it as I expected to be. I've heard such rave reviews of his writing. However, I've since read several of his other novels and have been blown away.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Another great Harlan Coben book. He continues to not disappoint. The characters have depth and I feel myself creating relationships with them, which was difficult in this book with so many players. The story had a great plot with lots of twists and turns which you rarely saw coming. I love the suspense!
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Though I finished this one, I didn't like it much. It was just very OK for me. This is the second Coben book and I can't say that I'm in a hurry to pick up any others. His books seem very convoluted. That's the best word that I can come up with. I thought it of Just One Look and I thought the same thing here. He's definitely good with twists! As the reader, I never saw them coming and certainly couldn't predict any because there were to many.Where I tend to look for and enjoy well developed characters, I don't get it from Coben because there are too many other things happening. The plot line was good and something different, but I'd have liked to know more about some of the key players. I never had that feeling of being in the characters shoes, or in their thoughts. It's that part of a book that suck me in give the book depth.Overall, not good, not bad. It was a super slow read for me because I just couldn't get completely into it.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Harlan Coben is a master storyteller. He has the extraordinary ability to take a number of seemingless unrelated threads and weave them together to create an intriguing tale.Matt Hunter, a man with a new life since being released from prison, suddenly finds his idyllic existence with his pregnant wife, Olivia, threatened when he is thrown into the middle of a triple-murder investigation. Who were these victims and how do they tie to Matt? Then there's the small matter of Matt receiving photos of his wife with a strange man in a hotel room. How do all of these events relate to one another or do they?A typical good read by Harlan Coben.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Matt Hunter gets involved in a college fight and ends up responsible for killing a fellow student. He goes to jail for the crime for five years and comes out a changed person. Because of the time he spent in prison, he is now looked at for a murder he knows he didn't commit. He's got a wife, Olivia, who's pregnant, and a house he's ready to buy in a nice neighborhood where he's not sure his neighbors are ready to have him. At his office as a paralegal, Matt gets a video of someone who looks like his wife with another man....
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The innocent has enough twists and turns to keep you reading and guessing what what comes next.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Up to Coben's usual high standard - lots of twists and turns, things aren't what you think they are, and it all moves along and a stiff pace.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I had not read any books by this author so this was an experiment. Good book. Liked it a lot. I will try other books by this author.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Sehr spannend und mit überraschenden Wendungen.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Harlan Coben writes good yarns with unexpected twists and many characters. But his prose suffers in this book from redundancy of words and tired cliches, most phrases from a few years ago. It's almost adolescent or made me think of adults who dote on themselves. If you don't mind the prose style of this book, the story is good, but then, I've only read one other Coben book. I listened to this on CD, same reader as the last book. He's not outstanding but does a decent job with the story.
I gave the book 4 stars because of the story, not the writing. If you like thriller mysteries, it's a good read. If you dislike words you have to look up, this is a great book for you.