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  • nick h
    • Rated 0 stars

    1-Promise Me, Harlan Coben, 2006

    2-New york City, New York

    3-Myron Boiltar- Former N.B.A star who has a dark and painful past, who then retires and becomes a lawyer, and then gets his name mixed up with a few crimes
    aimee biel- nice girl who goes missing
    katie wright- another girl who gets mixed up with the wrong crowd
    Plot-
    4-myron makes all of the local teenagers promise him that they wouldnt drive while under the influence, and that if they ever needed a ride someplace, they would call him, and he would take them wherever they wanted to go, zero questions asked, and that he wouldnt tell their parents.
    the arthor did a very great job of making the book intresting through modern day references, such as paris hilton and her infamous debut to the world, and also through his writing style, which he starts one scene and then he jumps to another scene that is completely un related.
    5- themes include, never make a promise that isnt healthy for a person to keep, and also to always follow your first mind, because in the book as myron made his biggest mistake, he thought it was wrong but he still went ahead with it
    6- my favorite quote comes from a scene, where myron and his girlfriend ali, began to kiss, and i love this quote because it shows how the author has a sense of humor
    "whoa" myron said
    "i thought you said you were smooth"- ali
    i'm holding back"-myron
    but why"-ali
    if i go all out in the smooth department, women all over the tri state area begin to disrobe-myron

    nick h wrote this review 6 days ago. ( reply | permalink )
  • Melanie I
    • Rated 4 stars

    Great book to kill time very entertaining

    Melanie I wrote this review 2 weeks ago. ( reply | permalink )
  • Sandy S
    • Rated 5 stars

    This was one of my favorite Myron Bolitar. Harlan changed his style for this book, allowing us to see the happenings from many different perspectives which made it more suspenseful. There of course were the usual repeats from his other books, but I suppose it's good to refresh your memory. I just found it annoying and repetitive because I read them all in a row! I find it interesting how he pulls his "bad guy" out of his hat at the end. This one was a little less convincing than some others, unrealistic, but I enjoyed the "whodunit" aspect very much as there were so many possible guilty parties!

    Sandy S wrote this review Wednesday, September 10 2008. ( reply | permalink )
  • Sleepy
    • Rated 5 stars

    Myron Bolitar probably won't make any promises to anyone again soon. When he gave his promise to two young girls it was made out of the moment and impulsive. He didn't know then that it would become a nightmare. 3 weeks after he made the girls promise to give him a call whenever they are in trouble he receives a call in the middle of the night. Aimee Biel, daugther of his long-term friend Claire Biel, calls him and makes him promise to not tell her parents about it. She wants him to pick her up and drive her back to her friends house, only this house isn't her friends house. Myron smells the whole situation is fishy but he trusts Aimee when she leaves the car and enters the front garden through the gate. It doesn't take long until he hears she never was at her friends house and she didn't come back home the next day.
    Then there is Katie Rochester who vanished shortly before. They both went to the same High School and Katie's last sign was a withdrawal from an ATM machine. Funnily enough Aimee used the same ATM machine shortly before she made her call to Myron.

    Katie is considered a runaway but things don't add up with Aimee's disappearance. Katie has been seen once since her parents notified authorities about her 18-year old daugther's disappearance. Aimee's 18, too, but the investigating police officers have a hard time to believe her to be a runaway, too.

    What happened to the girls ? Where did they go and what made them supposedly run away ?

    Myron promises Claire to get her daugther back and the clocks ticking. With more then one subject Myron has to figure out what Aimee had to do with two teachers and how his ex-boyfriends father comes into the game.
    In the end nothing is like it seems but everything is connected.

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    Book 8 of the Myron Bolitar series and the first book by Harlan Coben I've ever read. I enjoyed reading it even if I didn't know the characters and their history. I liked how everything was easily connected to each other but still a surprise and unexpected for the reader. In don't know what happened to Myron or his friend Win in the past but I will definitely know what's going to happen in the future. :-)

    Sleepy wrote this review Wednesday, July 23 2008. ( reply | permalink )
  • Harry M
    • Rated 5 stars

    Great read.Quiet a suprise at the end. I didn't see it coming.If you like suspense -- you'll love this one.

    Harry M wrote this review Sunday, April 20 2008. ( reply | permalink )
  • Autumnseer
    • Rated 5 stars

    What can I say? I always love Harlan’s book and this was no exception, especially a twist at the end where I didn’t even have a hint would happen. Also loved this particular book because of the title “Promise Me” and what it meant in the context of the book which I could really relate to. This was one of his better books, though I always enjoy this author. Apparently, the main character, Myron Bolitar, along with some other characters I have read before in past books, is a character he wrote in many of his earlier books, but this is the first I’ve read with Myron in a book. I liked him. Recommended.

    Autumnseer wrote this review Saturday, March 22 2008. ( reply | permalink )
  • Gabby
    • Rated 4 stars

    I enjoyed this book. So far I have liked his hole Bolitar series. I enjoy the characters. And I love that the stories are usually local for me.

    Gabby wrote this review Thursday, December 27 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • Amdeciu
    • Rated 5 stars

    This is the second book I have read by this author. I have thoroughly enjoyed both. He has a great tendency to give a surprise ending. I plan to read more by this author.

    Amdeciu wrote this review Monday, September 24 2007. ( reply | permalink )
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