Staying Close: Stopping the Natural Drift Toward Isolation in Marriage

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I think the instructions to the narrator were "try to sound cool" which I guess was interpreted as try to sound bored. He and Barbara have authored more than two dozen books, including the bestselling "Moments Together for Intimacy" and" Moments Together for Couples". While he is undeniably a deft plotter, even when dealing with various strings and many characters to tie together, the characters are what really fall flat in my opinion.

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After reading Fool Me Once, I held high standards for this author and felt that even his previous books too are equally good.Megan has fled from a dangerous scenario and we witness the nearly 20 year finale to the unfolding of the sordid tale.

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If you told me Harlan Coben dictated Stay Close over the telephone while stuck in New Jersey traffic, I wouldn't be surprised. The Performer: Armitage starred in such blockbusters as Captain America: The First Avenger, The Hobbit franchise and Ocean's Eight. Ray used to be a talented documentary photographer, but at age forty he finds himself in a dead-end job posing as a paparazzo pandering to celebrity-obsessed rich kids. Moreover, it was difficult (for me) to reconcile what happened to Green with the very profound changes in the lives of the main characters. Secondly, If you think you know who did it like 1/4 of the way in, you're right but the author adds an extra cup of cheesy pathos to the motive that undermines the only thing that was even mildly interesting about the killer.

His books include the Myron Bolitar series, as well as other standalone novels, including Play Dead, Miracle Cure. When Lorraine spotted her on the club CCTV, she felt compelled to find out what had happened to Stewart Green’s body, which she’d intended for the bunker before it disappeared thanks to Ray. Just when the reader thinks they know what is going to happen next, Coben takes them off in a new direction. Everybody’s findable these days,” the card sender tells her when they meet, which is apparently explanation enough. Before the murders, Lorraine had been in an abusive marriage and lost her baby due to her husband’s violence.

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When, on the eighteenth of March, seventeen years later, another man disappears, Megan, Ray and Broome are all drawn back to the events that altered their lives in such substantial ways. Poppy Gilbert and Hyoi O'Grady behind the scenes of Stay Close What are the fans saying about Barbie and Ken? A flashback sequence begins with Carlton attempting to drug Kayleigh, and how she steals his car keys. I simply did not want any collateral damage along the way as they mucked things up for anyone who cared about them.After all this time, she decides to pull the curtain back just a bit for a quick glimpse into her former life.

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But when a man with potential ties to another missing-person case from — you guessed it —17 years ago disappears, her shiny new life begins to unravel. Blackpool, Manchester and St Helens in Merseyside, which is the location of the monumental ‘Dream’ sculpture the inside of which Cassie turned into a love nest for Ray back in the day, and where they met up two decades later. I don’t think that I have read a Harlen Coben before, although I may be wrong, but I am going to make an effort to read more of him, not because I particularly enjoyed this one, I didn’t, but I have a sneaking suspicion this is not him at his best. Megan Pierce was at the ore factory that night, but escaped, and now lives in bliss in suburbia with two kids and a doting husband. Under the deal, Coben would have 14 of his novels adapted as Netflix series, with him serving as producer on all of them.The twists and the predictable turns are extremely foreseeable not only for any seasoned crime-fiction reader but also for a general reader too.