The Woods
Written by Harlan Coben
Narrated by Carol Monda and David Chandler
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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 Woods
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Good story exploring how protecting family members can go so wrong.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Fairly predictable.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I thought that this was very suspenseful and it sure kept us entertained on a 13 hour car ride!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Woods was recommended to me by another Harlan Coben fan. Without a doubt this has to my favourite so far out of the seven I have read.
I keep thinking I'm going to get sick of the same formula Coben weaves through all his stories.. murder, betrayal, twist. But I get sucked in every time. It really is starting to impact on sleeptime!
In true Coben fashion, this is a fast paced, page turner that is hard to put down. It's not pretentious, it's not literary, its just good old fashioned, strap on your belts for a ride, easy weekend reading. (I suggest weekend because you'll end up reading all night).
As other reviewers have pointed out... scenes are corny, characters are not necessarily well developed (but are likable - or unlikable - enough) and at times the writing isn't even all that great, though not bad enough to distract you from the story.
But as I said - Coben is not pretending to be Dickens. But he is a master of story telling. And like most of his books, "the Woods" packs a great story. If you enjoy fast paced thrillers and suspense, twists that are hard to pick, then you should enjoy this offering from Coben. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fantastic Read!! I was hooked from page one ... As with all Harlan Coben books, I couldn't put it down.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My first Harlan Coben book and it didn't disappoint. If you're a fan of the crime/mystery genre then this one is for you. It's a classic crime/investigation formula that has been trodden many times before. It is predictable at certain parts but nonetheless well written, gripping and enjoyable as prosecutor Paul Copeland goes digging into his past, uncovering family secrets and lies.I'll certainly pick up another Coben book. It reminds me of my distance mid-teenage years when I became obsessed with reading all the Ruth Rendell mysteries there were. I may do the same with Coben especially when he has had the power to get me out of a reading block which has lasted several months.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5"The Woods" has some nice twists and turns. I liked how the sub-plots meshed well with the main plot. (This is usually done rather poorly in TV dramas.)"The Woods" is about the 20 year-old murder of several teens at a summer camp. Paul, our protagonist, was a camp counselor whose sister was one of the victims. Now, as a county prosecutor, the past comes back in ways he can't imagine.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Great thriller!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5i dont usually read thrillers, but this one was written well enough and had enough character development that i was able to enjoy it. had me wondering what really happened all the way up to the end!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Very much enjoyed this book. Listened to the Audible version. I e already queued a few more by this author!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is a good murder mystery with plenty of twists. It wouldn't be among my favorite books, but for the kind of book it is, it's well done. I listened to it on CD and the reader lends enough difference to the voices to make it interesting. It's not a profound book, if you will, but it's good entertainment for its genre. I enjoyed it and didn't guess ahead of time how things would really turn out. It wasn't predictable. I did guess that they wouldn't be predictable.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Awsome as usual. With his usual twists and turns it is a great read.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Gripping! My first ever Harlan Coben read. Couldn't get through the day without finishing the novel. The way he writes his novels just makes you want to keep turning the pages. Such a twist to his tale!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This was another great tale by the master. In this nightmare, four young people go into the woods at night and allegedly, none return. What happened that night haunts Paul Copeland to this day as one of those who was murdered that night was his sister. However, he finds himself drawn back to the past when one of the four ends up dead - 20 years later! Filled with interesting twists, this tale keeps you guessing until the end. It was a great weekend read.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Plot wise... this is one of the best books I've read in a long time. Lots of lovely twists and turns and surprises. Writing wise... it was not wonderful but certainly good enough to sustain the excellent plot. It feels like sometimes Coben wants to be writing a romance novel. But, I'm a plot girl so 5 stars this gets :).
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5There were a lot of different strands to this novel, and I got a bit lost in the KGB ones. Things came together in rather a rush at the end. I thought the final twist was excellent, although the last paragraph was corny.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great twists and turns unexpected and engrossing read as usual
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fast paced suspenseful great murder mystery!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I enjoyed this mystery which was basically about missing teenagers. Not having read any others by Corben I had expected more. It seemed over the top and contrived. I really had trouble believing the convoluted storyline. While not my favorite mystery, I didn’t expect the ending of the book and I wonder how things worked out for everyone.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My first Harlan Coben. Liked it. Kept me engaged till the end.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Author lost me: takes a long time to get anywhere and has an enormous array of characters. I'm not feeling this one. The Woods should be a gripping story but I just can't care for any of the characters or the story.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I really enjoyed this audio book. The voices did a good job. Highly recommended.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My first Harlan Coben, and I thoroughly enjoyed it for a number of reasons. Not only was it tautly written with believable characters and a well thought out plot line involving many of those characters not wanting to reveal what actually happened in those woods, but it showed a great deal about police procedural and how the rules can be bent. In addition to that I obtained it for free from Kindle, and for a small amount I was also able to obtain the audio book as well (this is another first) which made driving long distances that much more pleasurable! Very good value for money. I will be reading others in the near future.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5READ IN DUTCH
This is another stand alone thriller by Harlan Coben. I'd heard great things about this book, so I wanted to try it.
It's a book that's very hard to put down once you start reading. You want to know what happened exactly, how it happened and who did it. That's a good thing. But for me, near the end of the story, it felt all a bit predictable and I was a little bit disappointed by the ending. The writing isn't really anything special, but it is fast and nice to read. This is what I like to call a 'snackbook'. Easy reading when you're busy with more important stuff. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My first Harlan Coben novel, and it won't be my last. A great mystery thriller with plenty of twists and turns to keep you guessing right to the end.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I began to think that I had this figured all out and thought the book was dragging and then out of nowhere I was taken by surprise. Good book, easy read and enjoyed it
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I really enjoyed this book! It was a good mystery, had some serious and surprising twists, was clean (no sex, language, drug use) and had a very satisfying ending. I had the large print edition, and read its 635 pages in three days. I would highly recommend this book, and I plan to read more by its author.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The narrator gets 4 stars!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5OK, I know it isn't great literature and I am a bit embarrassed to give it four stars, but I liked it! Easily readable, and keeps you guessing all the way and you will never see the end coming. Unlike many of the genre, this is a believable story which adds to the interest and doesn't strain the reader to accept events that just don't make sense. Remarkable enough to hold your interest and well written in a breezy manner typical of Coben. One of his best! As an aside, I don't understand why reviewers insist on giving away important plot lines in their reviews. Tell me what YOU thought of the book, not the Butler done it.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5On his deathbed, Paul Copeland's father grabs his hand and urgently whispers one final directive to his son: "Paul, we still need to find her." Two decades before, four teenage campers had wandered into the woods one sultry summer night. Some time later, two of the missing campers were found murdered, but the other two teens were never seen again. The lives of four families were changed forever. Now, twenty years later, they are all about to change again.Paul 'Cope' Copeland's life was turned upside down twenty years ago with the loss of his younger sister, Camille. Even now, he still feels the muted pain of that loss, although life has inevitably moved on for him. He is now the county prosecutor for Essex, New Jersey - a widower who recently lost his wife to cancer; learning to parent his six-year-old daughter as a single father. Balancing family life and a rapidly ascending career as a prosecutor distracts Cope from all his past traumas, but only for so long.When a homicide victim is found with evidence linking him to Cope, the long-buried secrets of the prosecutor's family are threatened. Might this homicide victim actually be one of the campers who disappeared with his sister? Could Camille still be alive? Cope can't be entirely sure, but he knows that he needs to find out.Yet, investigating this case will ultimately force Cope to face so many things from his past; people and emotions he believed he'd effectively left behind during that summer of twenty years ago. There will be Lucy, Cope's first love; his estranged mother, who abandoned her family; and the secrets held by his Russian parents, secrets which they might have been hiding even from their own children. Cope must decide what is better left hidden in the dark and what truths can be set free into the light.This is the first book by Harlan Coben that I've ever read, although I do have a least two others hidden somewhere on my bookshelf. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book; I found it to be very well-written and the story itself completely held my attention. I also really felt connected to the characters, and was quickly engrossed in the plot. I give this book an A! and this will most definitely not be the last book by Harlan Coben that I read.