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Loading... Never Look Away: A Thriller (original 2010; edition 2010)by Linwood Barclay
Work InformationNever Look Away by Linwood Barclay (2010)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Pretty good thriller. There were a few spots I thought "really" but I enjoyed the pace and the story. ( ) I give it 4 1/2 stars. It starts a little slow, but that's probably normal. However, after it got going, I had trouble putting it down. The poor protagonist, David Harwood, was really having a lot of bad days, starting with his son going missing at an amusement park, then being found but his wife went missing. That was bad enough, but when it began to look suspiciously like he was responsible, it just really got bad for him. During all this, there was another story going on just to keep us from getting bored with the main story. What's most amazing is that as bad as his wife was, with all of her misdeeds, I found myself feeling sorry for her at the end, hoping she would somehow get out from under her problems. I could never be a cop.
For most of its 415 pages, the story moves at the speed of a downhill racer, but runs into sticky snow in the late chapters; in what should be a gripping climax to an otherwise gripping tale, the reader is subject to lengthy he-said, she-said rehashes of who did what to whom and why. The last twist, the one too many, is unconvincing. But the characters feel real, and the plotting is otherwise ironclad; no Grisham-like plot-holes on this twisty road. Barclay also exhibits a nice sense of humour... Softer, more thoughtful. More Canadian. As anyone who reads such books well knows, dreaming up suspense plots is much easier than resolving them. And frankly, David’s wife is best left missing. Once “Never Look Away” has to explain what happened to her, it becomes flat-out silly. You're book was recommended by a friend, and he's right in saying this story is awesome. Why don't you try to join N0velStar's writing contest? Belongs to SeriesPromise Falls (0.2)
Fiction.
Mystery.
Suspense.
Thriller.
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