Hold Tight - Harlan Coben

I will begin by pointing out that the author's name is incorrect in the title here, it is 'Coben' not 'Corben' as stated above. I am a big fan of Harlan Coben, especially his stand alone novels. Since devouring one of his earlier novels in one sitting a couple of years ago, I became hooked, and have worked my way through all his books. Hold Tight features couple Mike and Tia Baye, who are concerned about the behaviour of their sixteen-year-old son Adam. Adam has became very distant since the suicide of his friend Spencer, and spends a lot of time on his computer. Mike and Try become increasingly worried about their son as he withdraws away ...  Read the complete review

- Introduction - My mum presented me with this book a few days before I left with my parents on our summer holiday abroad. She told me she'd been given it for free through a book club at work and wondered if I'd like to read it. I was a little hesitant since I had read a couple of the authors' other novels based around a specific character before and wasn't overly keen on them but I read that it was a stand alone novel not about that character and I knew I liked a good crime novel, so I thought I can't complain when it doesn't cost me anything, so I gave it a shot and read it while on holiday. - Story - 'Hold Tight' tells the story ...  Read the complete review

I've been a fan of Harlan Coben for a few years now, ever since one of my friend's lent me some of his Myron Bolitar novels to read and I eagerly await his new stuff. One problem for me though is I eagerly await his new stuff in the hope he will write more from Myron and co and recently he hasn't. Hold Tight is mostly about Tia and Mike Baye and their son Adam. One of Adam's classmates has recently committed suicide and Adam is behaving very strangely so Tia and Mike install a spy program on their son's computer to see what he's up to. Naturally this leads them to find out just enough about their son to realise he's in too deep in a situation and then Adam ...  Read the complete review

Harlan Coben is a strange one for me. I love most of his stand-alone novels, yet find his ongoing Myron Bolitar saga virtually unreadable. Maybe I have committment issues, but I find it both difficult to stick with something that doesn't seem to end and even more difficult to try and pick something up halfway through and make sense of it. Having read a couple of the Bolitar books, I find that Coben doesn't cater well there for the casual reader, opting to reference past books without offering anything by way of explanation. However, his stand-alone thrillers always fill me with excitement. Like most of Coben's material, Hold Tight quickly sets up various ...  Read the complete review

'Hold Tight' is Harlan Coben's 15th book. I had read (and reasonably enjoyed) his previous book 'The Woods' so I thought I would give this a try. The story starts off in an intriguing fashion. A woman is in a bar before being drugged, kidnapped and beaten to death, after some information is forced from her, which is not revealed to the reader. At this stage you have no idea what is going on and it sets the style and pace for the rest of the book. There are many different subplots going on and the information is released very deliberately and slowly. The back of the book indicates that sophisticated software is used in the book but if you are not computer ...  Read the complete review