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    Six Years
    Six Years
    Six Years
    Audiobook10 hours

    Six Years

    Written by Harlan Coben

    Narrated by Scott Brick

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Six years have passed since Jake Fisher watched Natalie, the love of his life, marry another man. Six years of hiding a broken heart by throwing himself into his career as a college professor. Six years of keeping his promise to leave Natalie alone, and six years of tortured dreams of her life with her new husband, Todd.

    But six years haven’t come close to extinguishing his feelings, and when Jake comes across Todd’s obituary, he can’t keep himself away from the funeral. There he gets the glimpse of Todd’s wife he’s hoping for…but she is not Natalie. Whoever the mourning widow is, she’s been married to Todd for almost two decades, and with that fact, everything Jake thought he knew about the best time of his life—a time he has never gotten over—is turned completely inside out.

    As Jake searches for the truth, his picture-perfect memories of Natalie begin to unravel. Mutual friends of the couple either can’t be found or don’t remember Jake. No one has seen Natalie in years. Jake’s search for the woman who broke his heart, who lied to him, soon puts his very life at risk as it dawns on him that the man he has become may be based on a carefully constructed fiction.

    Harlan Coben once again delivers a shocking novel that deftly explores the power of past love and the secrets and lies that such love can hide.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMar 19, 2013
    ISBN9781455855865
    Six Years
    Author

    Harlan Coben

    With more than seventy million books in print worldwide, Harlan Coben is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of numerous suspense novels, including Don't Let Go, Home, and Fool Me Once, as well as the multi-award-winning Myron Bolitar series. His books are published in forty-three languages around the globe and have been number one bestsellers in more than a dozen countries. He lives in New Jersey.

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    • 3/5
      Hard to sympathize with main character throughout the book. A little too self absorbed.
    • 5/5
      Love this author! The story keeps you on the edge of your seat-twists and turns and you can’t guess the ending.
    • 3/5
      The reader was too droll and the love he felt for Natalie was so obnoxious. It all felt oppressive. The mystery was okay. But the thriller was boring.
    • 2/5
      First let me say; I LIKE Harlan Coben and I have listened to most of his books. But this one was HORRIBLE. The narrator reminded me of a "radio soap opera ". It was annoying as hell. The story was ridiculous and the main character got on my nerves. There was very little that I liked about this book.
    • 5/5
      I really liked this book. I think it’s my favorite. Very suspenseful until the very end.
    • 3/5
      I love Harlan Coben's Bolitar novels and I could listen to Scott Brick narrate a potato chip bag. But this? It listens like a Hallmark tv movie. The plot is intriguing;the overblown prose annoying. It's as if the author was paid by the word, or an entrant in a Bulwer-Lytton contest. This audiobook could easily be an enjoyable 4.5 hours, but 10.5 hours? No way! I certainly recommend all the author's Myron Bolitar novels.
    • 3/5
      I’ve read many Coben novels, and I feel let down by the cheesy dialogue (“Yo, Prof!”) and by-now-formulaic plot tropes. I hope this is his worst work, because I’ve really enjoyed his novels in the past.
    • 4/5
      Some mysteries and secrets contained within the book. However, their reveals were sloppy and unintrestingly done.
    • 5/5
      Couldn’t stop listening! Excellent thriller embedded within a powerful love story.
    • 4/5
      This was another good read from Harlan Coben. A little different because of the romantic ending but all in all very entertaining. I still have a few unanswered questions as the ending was somewhat abrupt. The characters were very interesting with a great plot. I'm definitely looking forward to my next Coben book.
    • 5/5
      The intricate plot .. trying to keep up with new clues and surprises and the likable protagonist.
    • 4/5
      This was an excellent thriller about a man who will do anything for love. Jake Fisher fell in love with Natalie Avery one summer while he was writing his thesis and she was attending an art camp. She left him at the end of that summer to marry another man—Todd Sanderson. He promised to leave them alone and never try to contact her. Now six years have passed and he sees her groom's obituary on the front page of their college website. For Jake, all bets are off. He needs to see if Natalie was willing to rekindle their relationship. He feels that he was only leading half a life during the past years. But when he attends Todd Sanderson's funeral he is surprised that the widow is not Natalie. This starts him on a quest to find Natalie but he encounters road block after road block. Jake also attracts the attention of the mafia, various police officers, and the FBI. Despite being beaten, kidnapped, and shot, Jake continues to follow all the clues to find out what happened to the only woman he had ever loved. The story is told in first person as though Jake is talking to the reader including various asides. We get to follow along as he uncovers clues and conspiracies and as he uncovers secrets and betrayals. The style of the book is engaging and engrossing. It was a real page-turner that kept me up later than I should have been up. Jake was a great hero—an ordinary man who gets in way over his head and perseveres because of his great love for Natalie. I recommend this one to mystery lovers. My first Harlan Coben will definitely not be my last!
    • 4/5
      Some mysteries and secrets contained within the book. However, their reveals were sloppy and unintrestingly done.
    • 5/5
      Brilliant book, full of mystery and suspense plus the romantic bit - cherry on the top :)
    • 5/5
      I love all of Harlan Coben's novels I've read so far, and Six Years was no exception. It's a thrilling and exciting novel which draws the reader in from page one. There were many twists and turns and a complex plot leading up to the unexpected and breathtaking ending. Although it isn't a romance in the traditional sense it is a romantic suspense. The story is told in the first person by Jake, who is driven by his obsessive search for Natalie, the woman he still loves although he saw her marry another man six years ago. Jake will stop at nothing to find her including confrontations with the police, FBI, secret organisations and even the mafia...
    • 4/5
      I think I read this too soon after 'Win', because I found it quite similar, and not quite as good. Jake's persistence in loving a woman he knew for three months six years ago is very romantic, I suppose, and necessary for the plot, but a bit of a stretch. Still, a quick engrossing read.I read it in one sitting.
    • 4/5
      Another excellent suspense novel from Harlan Coben. I still want more Myron though.
    • 2/5
      My second and most likely last Coben book. This read like a romance novel for men - and the author was so lazy he re-used an anecdote from the only other book I'd read by him, No Second Chance - a line about The Fair Inn - how it wasn't great or good, but just "fair". I read these books (purchased for 50 cents each at a library book sale) because I needed some mental relief from a few dark books I was also reading. These did the trick but it really depresses me that SO many people read this crap when there are so many truly great writers and books out there, lesser known but more worthy of one's time.
    • 5/5
      A clever story of a love gone wrong and a guys attempt to reclaim his relationship. It turns out to be much deeper than that - a clever mystery with countless twists and turns. There are a few clues but some key clues aren't revealed until the end. It hangs together well and I found it an exciting read.
    • 3/5
      Promises gf not to keep in the after she marries but he waits for six years when her husband dies but she cannot be found until the end. Would not recommend
    • 3/5
      I liked this book, but found it not as exciting or well written as previous ones I've read of his. Jake Fisher promised the love of his life that he would not contact Natalie for six years. Natalie moved on and married someone else. Finding Natalie's husbands obituary, he now feels it is safe to try to track her down.But, when he attends the funeral, it is not Natalie that he finds. His attempt to find her leads to quite an adventure!
    • 4/5
      I just love the way Haran Coben writes... he's funny - and it shows in his characters! Myron Bolitar was NOT in this one, but I loved this new guy Jake.
    • 4/5
      A great plot - many twists and turns that kept me guessing. Coben has written a complex, layered story with characters that you want to see succeed on their various missions. The story contains bad guys, but they're not revealed right off. The plot drags a little in the middle. As is usual with a Coben mystery, the end isn't the end until the very end.
    • 4/5
      When you read Harlan Coben, you need to go into it with a couple of things in mind.

      1. His works are not literary classics and nor do they pretend or aim to be.

      2. The stories are formulaic - murder, secrets, betrayal and twists. Not necessarily a bad thing - if this is the sort of story you like, you know it will deliver.

      3. The writing, while generally fine, is not always on point, but the story is always engrossing, fast paced and it's never that bad that it distracts you from the task at hand - ie finding out how all the seemingly unrelated subplots tie together for a big twist at the end.

      So with all that in mind Six Years delivers on these expectations, the author has found a prescription for success and rarely deviates. For me that's great. I want to know what to expect when I pick up a Coben book.. when ever I want to read a quick paced, page turning thriller full of twists, within one or two sittings I can turn to Coben and not be disappointed. I don't always need my authors to "grow". I read their work when I'm in a specific mood and after a particular type of story and I like that. If I want to change it up, I read something /someone else.

      I will say that your first Coben will probably be your favourite, particularly his later ones (okay maybe his writing style grew a little and I'm okay with that)
    • 2/5
      I didn't hate it. Parts of it were good. Like the main character's inner thoughts were often funny and the storyline was entertaining. But the whole plot taken together seemed to have too many holes in it, people doing things that didn't seem believable or justified.
    • 5/5
      Six years ago, Jake watched the love of his life marry another man. After the wedding, Natalie made him promise that he would leave her and her groom alone.

      Devastated, Jake moves on with his life, and keeps his promise....until, he sees the obituary of Natalie's husband, six years later...MURDERED.

      An innocent enough search to find Natalie to see how she's doing, to get answers, to well he didn't really know what turns in an unexpected mystery, murders, and and secrets that begin to unravel the past about some of the people he thought he was closest too...

      Where is Natalie?
    • 4/5
      So this is why Harlan Coben is a best-seller. When principled college professor discovers the woman he loved has become a widow he searches her out. But she has disappeared and no one is willing to help. An engrossing page-turning mystery thriller.
    • 4/5
      Harlan Coben can always be counted on to tell a good story. This one was fast-paced and smart, with a bit of humor and a happy ending. Good brain candy!
    • 4/5
      Jake Fisher watches Natlaie, the love of his life get married to Todd. She tells Jake Todd was a former boyfriend. At the wedding she asks him to promise not to contact her ever again. Despite his broken heart, Jake honors his promise. Until six years later when Jake reads Todd's obituary. Deciding his promise is no longer valid, Jake begins the search for Natalie only to discover that no one seems to to be able to verify anything he remembers. The search is not only baffling, but dangerous, and Coben once again had me glued to the book, reading compulsively to find the answers. Coben's delivered another winner of a mystery.
    • 4/5
      This is an easy-to-read thriller about a college professor, Jake Fisher, who witnesses the marriage of a woman he deeply loves. He promises not to follow her, but six years later, when he accidently sees her husband's obituary, he breaks his promise and starts a search that will end up in many deaths. The story moves fast, there are no unnecessary details, the plot at first seems intriguing. However, in the end I got a strange feeling of stupidity. The whole story turned out to be quite implausible, with repetitive scenes which were so much alike. Can be recommended as a light summer read for those who prefer thrillers which do not require much involvement from the reader.