Seconds Away
Written by Harlan Coben
Narrated by Kerry Shale
4/5
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Having ended the Edgar Award-nominated Shelter with a jaw-dropping cliffhanger, Coben picks up Mickey's story right where it left off in this suspenseful adventure.
Mickey and his loyal new friends, sharp-witted Ema and adorably charming Spoon, once again find themselves in over their heads on the hunt for missing pieces to a puzzle they have yet to understand. As the mystery surrounding Mickey's dad's death unfolds, he soon learns that they may be in more danger than they could have ever imagined.
Read by Kerry Shale. Kerry's stage credits include HIS GIRL FRIDAY (National Theatre) and FROST/NIXON (West End). TV credits include DR WHO and LIFE'S TOO SHORT. Recent films include A FANTASTIC FEAR OF EVERYTHING. He has won three Sony Radio Awards, the APA Award for Best Male Audio Book Reader (UK) and the Audie Award for Best Male Audio Book Reader (USA). His audio books include two winners of the Man Booker Prize, LIFE OF PI and THE WHITE TIGER.
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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Reviews for Seconds Away
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Read both books in one evening. Can't wait for book 3. More Spoon please! Recommended for fans of BTVS because the dynamic between the main characters is similar, although without the supernatural Big Bads.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Having rescued Ashley from an unsavory fate, and having to let her disappear for her safety and theirs, Mickey, Ema, Spoon, and Rachel return to their normal teenage age lives...except for the fact that none of them feel as if it is over...and, of course, there is that haunting question, is my Dad still alive?
When the police come pounding on his door, Mickey is alarmed to find out that his friend Rachel has been shot, and her mother has been murdered. Once again, Mickey, Ema, and Spoon set out to find out what happened and who was the shooter.
Their evidence suggests that Rachel's Dad has secrets that he doesn't want revealed... - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/54.5 Stars I enjoyed this a lot more than the first book in the Mickey Bolitar Series. Some of the humour you expect from the Myron Bolitar books was more evident in this book and you knew the characters better. I also think Myron had a bigger presence in this book and Mickey was not so against Myron in this book, so he became a much more likeable character. I really enjoyed the book and it set the book up for (the so far) last book in the series. If anything it has more a feel of a Trilogy than a series. The book was left on a bit of a cliffhanger so I intend to move straightaway onto book 3 where we might finally find out whether Mickey's father is dead or alive. I certainly wouldn't read this series before finishing book 10 in the Myron Bolitar Series and might be best read before book 11 : Home.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Not quite as humorous as "Shelter" but still an enjoyable read.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Some YA books are a lot of fun for adults, this series is definitely not my cup of tea. I like Harlan Coben, and even wondered if the genre classification was a mistake. It wasn't. This might not even should be classified as YA, more like children's reading really. I'm not saying it was a bad book, just that I think it would satisfy the minds of middle school age children more than say anyone over 13. The connection with Myron Boltair was another thing that got my interest and caused me to try this series, but it's just not a strong enough connection to get me to go beyond the second book in the series.
I would definitely recommend this book to young readers that enjoy mystery. It would probably appeal to young readers that found the adventure aspect of the Harry Potter series. Good luck, and enjoy. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5In this sequel to Shelter, Mickey has to solve the mystery of why his friend was shot in a home invasion while her mother was killed. Mickey is still trying to unravel the mystery of his father's death and past while facing danger and challenges in this latest turn of events. All the while he is trying to fit in to his new high school and make the basketball team. Another fast moving thriller with many twists and turns. Mickey has to decide whether or not to share what he finds about the shooting/murder with his friend.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This review first appeared on The Book Zone(For Boys) blog
Seconds Away picks up straight after the events of Shelter, and you really have to have read the first book in the series for this one to make a great deal of sense. For those of you who read Shelter a year ago and may have forgotten key elements of the story have no fear - Coben cleverly weaves enough reminders into the opening chapters to refresh your mind of the events in that first book, and also the bombshell he dropped at the close of the book that has left fans begging for more ever since.
I know that there have been some readers who were left a little confused at the end of Shelter, as there seemed to be two very different elements to it. For the most part it was a gritty crime thriller, with Mickey Bolitar and his new friends being drawn into a thrilling and deadly mystery rooted firmly in modern crime. However, there also seemed to be something of a supernatural element to the series spanning story arc, an element that seemed more than a little out of place in a straight crime story. Ninety year old ex Nazis who still look young, anybody? In Seconds Away Coben gradually reveals more information behind this element and by the end readers will have a much better understanding of this, and like me they will also be just as hungry for the next instalment.
As with Shelter then there are two stories going on in this sequel. There is the standalone element - Mickey's friend Rachel is injured and her mother killed in a shooting at her house, and Mickey, Ema and Spoon set out to solve the mystery - and then there is the greater mystery: that surrounding Mickey's life, the death of his father, the Bat Lady, the Butcher of Lodz and the Abeona Shelter. Coben uses all of his writing experience and expertise to craft a story that has you racing through the pages, desperate to get to the solution to both mysteries. And there is no point second guessing either - the plot twists and turns like an Alpine giant slalom, and just as you think you have guessed 'whodunnit', somthing else is revealed and you find yourself staring open mouthed as the letters W.R.O.N.G. flash teasingly through your brain.
Crime is a genre that has huge adult appeal, with book stores having ranks of shelves dedicated to authors of these books. However, it is only in the last eighteen months or so that it has crossed over to the YA market, with the likes of Harlan Coben, Colin Mulhern, Niall Leonard and Peter Cocks writing for this younger age group. I know some of the boys at school much prefer these kind of stories that are grounded in a realism that they can relate to, as opposed to fantasy and horror stories. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Here Coben presents the second in the Mickey Bolitar series, which takes places less than a week later in Mickey's life after the first book. This makes for a rather odd sensation for the reader, or so I thought. However, if Coben wants to keep the series focused on Mickey while he's in high school then it is a device that should serve him well. In this one, Mickey's friend Rachel's mother is murdered, and Rachel is injured by a bullet that grazes her skull. Mickey, Ema and Spoon set out to find who who shot Rachel and her mother. In the midst of this Mickey has his tryout for the high school basketball team, and the Bat Lady's house burns down. Uncle Myron and Mickey continue to build their prickly relationship. As a middle-aged person, what struck me about the book was how much energy Mickey has and how invincible he believes he is. Even when horrible things happen to his closest friends, he cannot stop trying to find out answers while paying no regard to his personal safety. In this, Coben does a good job of how teenagers seem to think. Teens will enjoy and so will fans of Myron Bolitar, who is doing his best to guide his teenage nephew.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I was initially lost in the book since it picks up the morning after the last book left off, which I read a year ago and plenty of books in the meantime. So I was struggling through the first few chapters racking my brain trying to remember what happened previously. I'm still not sure I ever got everything that I should have from the first book, but this story took off and I was hanging on for the thrill ride. Lots of twists and turns. I really enjoyed this story and it's characters: I couldn't stop listening. Huge lead in for the next book, I just hope that Harlan helps out his adult readers with not such great memorys as his YA crowd with a little more background next time.