Shelter
A gripping thriller from the #1 bestselling creator of hit Netflix show Fool Me Once
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4.1 • 240 Ratings
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- £5.49
Publisher Description
The first thriller in the Mickey Bolitar series, now airing as an original series on Amazon Prime. Bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix show Fool Me Once, Harlan Coben brings us a shocking pageturner about a grieving teenager obsessed by the disappearance of a missing girl.
Mickey Bolitar's year can't get much worse. After witnessing his father's death and sending his mother to rehab, he's forced to live with his estranged uncle Myron and switch schools. Fortunately, he's met a great girl, Ashley, and it seems like things might finally be improving. But then Ashley vanishes. Mickey follows Ashley's trail into a seedy underworld that reveals that Ashley isn't who she claimed to be. And neither was Mickey's father. Soon Mickey learns about a conspiracy so shocking that it leaves him questioning everything about the life he thought he knew.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this suspenseful, well-executed spin off of his bestselling Myron Bolitar mystery series for adults, Coben introduces readers to Myron's nephew Mickey, a high school sophomore who is reluctantly living with his uncle after his father died in a car crash and his mother went into rehab. When Mickey's new girlfriend, Ashley, vanishes just weeks into the school year, Mickey attempts to find her. With the aid of new friends Spoon and Ema, Mickey discovers that everything he knew about Ashley was false, and the truth is fraught with danger. Simultan eous ly, he looks into the history of the enigmatic Bat Lady, a local recluse who claims to have knowledge of his father. As the two mysteries intertwine, Mickey learns more than he ever expected about those closest to him. While Mickey's voice is occasionally too sophisticated for his age, and he's a little too good to be true, it doesn't make this thriller any less enjoyable. Coben's semi-noir style translates well to YA, and the supporting cast is thoroughly entertaining. It's a strong start to the series. Ages 12 up.
Customer Reviews
Shelter
Very good book, but for those of us that have read all the Myron Bolitar books it is sad not to have any more of them, and see so very little of him in this one. I will especially miss the character Windsor Lockwood the third, he was so funny and so different and you were just waiting for him to appear.
Shelter
Another thrilling Connelly esque story
What?
This book was messy from start to finish. As a Harlan Cobden fan I just can’t understand what happened to the writing. It chopped and changed, there was no real character development and I felt zero emotional investment in any of the plot. Extremely disappointed.