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by Harlan Coben
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Century
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You've lost your daughter.
She's addicted to drugs and to an abusive boyfriend. And she's made it clear that she doesn't want to be found.
Then, quite by chance, you see her busking in New York's Central Park.
But she's not the girl you remember. This woman is wasted, frightened and clearly in trouble.
You don't stop to think. You approach her, beg her to come home.
She runs.
And you follow her into a dark and dangerous world you never knew existed. Where criminal gangs rule, where drugs are the main currency, and murder is commonplace.
Now it's your life on the line. And nowhere and no one is safe.
She's addicted to drugs and to an abusive boyfriend. And she's made it clear that she doesn't want to be found.
Then, quite by chance, you see her busking in New York's Central Park.
But she's not the girl you remember. This woman is wasted, frightened and clearly in trouble.
You don't stop to think. You approach her, beg her to come home.
She runs.
And you follow her into a dark and dangerous world you never knew existed. Where criminal gangs rule, where drugs are the main currency, and murder is commonplace.
Now it's your life on the line. And nowhere and no one is safe.
Okay, Harlan Coben. Yes, I know going in that I’ll love it. It’ll be entertaining and end well. This one though, as entertaining as it was, as engrossed as I was in it, as sickening as I felt, this realistic rabbit hole got me so deep that I just couldn’t truly enjoy the ending.
Because even though it’s fiction… it’s not fiction, it’s real every day for so many parents and ouch, I felt it. Some reviews said it seemed far-fetched and unbelievable and I was thankful for all of them who feel that way and don’t know otherwise.
It is absolutely a top read; just know that the entertaining may be in the connection you feel to the world of that very real, very sickening, trap of addiction and parenting.
Maybe this touched too close to home because of how many kids we’ve seen succumb to addiction. Maybe it is because I couldn’t call my parents and tell them I loved them.
I really don’t know, but I highly recommend it, and yet…
Because even though it’s fiction… it’s not fiction, it’s real every day for so many parents and ouch, I felt it. Some reviews said it seemed far-fetched and unbelievable and I was thankful for all of them who feel that way and don’t know otherwise.
It is absolutely a top read; just know that the entertaining may be in the connection you feel to the world of that very real, very sickening, trap of addiction and parenting.
Maybe this touched too close to home because of how many kids we’ve seen succumb to addiction. Maybe it is because I couldn’t call my parents and tell them I loved them.
I really don’t know, but I highly recommend it, and yet…
