The Woods -

Harlan Coben

Signet Novel

2008

520 páginas

17h 20m

ISBN-13: 9780451221957

Twenty years ago, four teenagers at summer camp walked into the woods at night. Two were found murdered, and the others were never seen again. Four families had their lives changed forever. Now, two decades later, they are about to change again.

For Paul Copeland, the county prosecutor of Essex, New Jersey, mourning the loss of his sister has only recently begun to subside. Cope, as he is known, is now dealing with raising his six-year-old daughter as a single father after his wife has died of cancer. Balancing family life and a rapidly ascending career as a prosecutor distracts him from his past traumas, but only for so long. When a homicide victim is found with evidence linking him to Cope, the well-buried secrets of the prosecutor’s family are threatened.

Is this homicide victim one of the campers who disappeared with his sister? Could his sister be alive? Cope has to confront so much he left behind that summer twenty years ago: his first love, Lucy; his mother, who abandoned the family; and the secrets that his Russian parents 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 brought to the light.

Resenhas (1)

2 (Razoável)

Morno

A história é bem envolvente e prende a atenção, e, por ter uma escrita simples, a leitura é bem rápida.
Entretanto, a escrita não é só simples, como também pobre. Os personagens são muito mal desenvolvidos (principalmente os femininos), inclusive muitos são iguais, sem nenhuma distinção de personalidade (chegando até a repetir frases).

O final é morno, sem graça, sem nenhuma reviravolta chocante. Por ser um livro de suspense, eu esperava um pouco mais de emoção. O epílogo é extremamente brega e me deu vergonha alheia.

É o primeiro livro de Harlan Coben que leio e estou bastante decepcionado, tendo em vista que já ouvi falar tanto dele. Agora estou considerando se devo ler outro ou não.