![]() But One False Move finds things turning a little more serious and a whole lot more emotional. Up until now the series provided one type of mystery or another that required Myron to call on his powers of deductive reasoning along with Win Horne Lockwood to provide muscle and Esperanza Diaz for a combination of witty rejoinders and solid detective work. The 5th book in the Myron Bolitar series is a bit of a departure from the usual breezy hi-jinks featuring the sports agent. My expectation is that the stories won't have me on the edge of my seat, more likely laid back in a hammock with a smile on my face, but that’s just fine with me. The good news is there are quite a few more books in the series and I know I’ll work my way through them all in due course. It’s like the bag of treats you get to the bottom of too quickly, I wanted more. How did I miss this first time around? It’s one of those books that eases you through comfortably to a point that you suddenly realise it’s about to finish. However, the attraction for me was in the dialogue - Byron is smart and above all funny. I wont go into the plot in any detail but suffice to say there are plenty of twists and turns. ![]() Brenda is feisty and attractive and has a complicated back story involving a mother who deserted her early in her life and an interfering father who has now gone missing himself. In this episode Myron, a sports agent amongst a number of hats he wears, is tempted to take on the job of protecting basketball star Brenda Slaughter, in exchange for the ability to sign her to his agency. I loved it! And more significantly, Win’s constant references to his best friend tempted me to give this series another go. But I recently picked up a copy of Win, a new novel from Coben featuring Bolitar’s sidekick Windsor Horne Lockwood III. I read the first Myron Bolitar book Deal Breaker back in 2013 and although, in all honesty, I can’t recall much about it my two star review indicates it didn’t work for me. Overall, this one is the best of the series to date, and has me stoked to hurry up and get going on the other chapters in the series so I can get caught up. The recurring characters offer much insight and wry observations and challenge Myron in ways he may not have asked for, but is better for it in the long run. Myron may have lost a little innocence here, and it will be interesting to see if he rebounds from this or is his character will have a new edge from here on out. Myron’s hilarious, self-deprecating remarks and observations kept me entertained through, what was a little bit of a slow start, but the tone changes little by little until the last quarter of the book, when things become more serious than I’ve seen them thus far. This installment is a little bit of a game changer as the reader watches Myron’s character go through a myriad of emotions, some of them very surprising. With Brenda’s freedom, and maybe even her life hanging in the balance, Myron enlists Win to help him find Brenda’s missing mother, possibly expose a cover up, and help keep Brenda safe, all while dealing with Esperanza’s demands to become a full partner, and cope with his waning relationship with Jessica. When Myron is hired to keep an eye on women’s basketball player, Brenda Slaughter, the last thing he ever expected was to find himself dealing with one of the most powerful families in the city, mobsters, and twenty year old secrets. One False Move by Harlan Coben is a 1998 publication.įive books into the Myron Bolitar series, and Coben’s writing really begins to hit a stride! You are always left guessing until the very end! I still highly recommend Coben and the Bolitar series. Also back and as awesome is ever is Myron’s good friend Win. Bolitar remains as sarcastic and cynical as expected with his witty comebacks and snarky inner monologue. The previous statements do not mean that the humor is not there. ![]() Maybe my initial reaction is my own fault – I was getting too comfortable. I can see it getting stale if it is the same book after book. I am thinking that some of the changes I saw were because this is book five in the series and maybe Coben felt it was time to re-imagine some of the characters and storylines. But, towards the end of the book I started to appreciate the more vulnerable and flawed Bolitar. For a while I was thinking I might go three stars with this because it felt so different and much rawer than I am used to (rawer sounds weird to me, but according to spell check, “more raw” is not correct!). ![]() This book is somewhat of dark turn for Coben and Myron Bolitar.
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