Hold Tight
by Harlan Coben
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Book Reviews of Hold Tight
Book Review: Amazing Talent This Author Has
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm not sure if it has to anything to do with my love of children or that I'm expecting my first one but Hold Tight just lept into the number one spot on my Harlan Coben favourites list. With parents of all backgrounds left wondering how far you should go to protect your family, Coben's newest characters answer a lot while leaving me questioning so much more.
How far is too far when it comes to your children? Tia and Mike Baye, parents of two, feel they did everything right until their son's friend commits suicide and their own son turns his sadness inwards.
Not being able to reach their teenager, the Baye's are much like everyone else in their community but risked everything to take one extra measure. What their actions unraveled was much more...
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Book Review: painful read
Summary: 1 Stars
i have read a couple of coben's other books and found them quite well written. not this one. weak characters, weak plot; the whole book was an emotional downer. it was a real challenge just to finish reading it.
the husband and wife agonize over the moral correctness of invading their son's privacy, as he spirals out of control, bordering on the verge of destroying his own life. wake up and smell the coffee! as parents, we must do whatever it takes to protect our children from harm. to not do so is irresponsible and immoral. perhaps our society wouldn't be such a moral cesspool if more parents took a stand. perhaps our children would be a lot better off without the ipods, cell phones, tv's, and computers, that monopolize their waking hours. life is a wonderful gift and an immense responsibility. let's teach our children what it really is all about.
Book Review: Terrifyingly Real, Complex Thriller
Summary: 4 Stars
Hold Tight:
Mike and Tia Baye agree that placing spyware on their son Adam's computer is the best way to protect him. Adam has been acting strangely since his best friend's suicide and Mike and Tia are worried about missing warning signs. Mike, an oncologist, is distracted by the life-threatening illness of a neighbor's child, while Tia is eager to return to real work in a big law firm. But as they uncover pieces of Adam's life, more questions are revealed than answers.
Harlan Coben writes an eerily-real novel. Thoughtless, minor acts carelessly lead to murder and good intentions quickly turn sour. Relationships and hidden connections are revealed and the reader, along with both main and peripheral characters, come to realize how connected we all are. Slightly gruesome, but fast-paced, readers will enjoy every minute of this thriller.
Book Review: 3.5 Stars. Issues: interesting and fun to read about. Crime element: unrealistic and less interesting
Summary: 4 Stars
16 yr old Adam takes off after his friend commits suicide. His parents, worried sick about what's going on in his life, begin to "invade" his privacy. The issue of a child's right to privacy turns out to be a fascinating part of the book.
A good story, realistic, plausible, with interesting characters and great dialogue; full of fascinating tidbits throughout. I was thinking I'd finally found a pretty good mystery novel, but the ending felt contrived, unrealistic, implausible, too much gotta-wrap-up-all-the-pieces-somehow. Turns out the crime isn't nearly as fun or fascinating to read about as the issues in the lives of all the characters.
Particular aspects of the sociopath's personality felt completely implausible and unlikely. Ah well, most of the book was a good read, so I'll stick with 3.5 stars.
Book Review: Zippy tale and a well-spun yarn
Summary: 4 Stars
The novel is set in present-day New Jersey. Coben tackles political issues such as evolution, feminism and nature vs nurture. The narrative involves many families and many lives, and the book gets interesting when everyone starts confronting each other. The book has many points of view, and Coben changes the viewpoints skillfully. The book goes into the relationships people have at work, such as ones between Mike Baye and his colleague Ilene Goldfarb, Tia Baye and her boss Hester Crimstein, and Loren Muse and her boss Paul Copeland. From the outside, this may seem as a crime story about a killer taking the lives of innocent persons, but the book is much more than that. It is intriguing to see how the threads of the story join together to show how the plot elements that are related to each other.