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    Six Years
    Six Years
    Six Years
    Audiobook (abridged)6 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
    ISBN9781455876105
    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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    • 5/5
      I LOVED the book ! It kept me intrigued thru the whole story- Narrator did a great job! I Definitely recommend!!
    • 3/5
      This was an ok audiobook. Glad I was able to listen to it while cleaning up. It was a good distraction.
    • 2/5
      I usually love Coben, but I didn’t even finish this book. I was irritated with the ridiculous dialogue that led nowhere and bored me out of my mind. I also did not enjoy the narrator’s depiction of certain characters. All in all, the book just dragged everything out.
    • 4/5
      Some mysteries and secrets contained within the book. However, their reveals were sloppy and unintrestingly done.
    • 5/5
      One wild twist after another. Kept me guessing all the way through.
    • 4/5
      Some mysteries and secrets contained within the book. However, their reveals were sloppy and unintrestingly done.
    • 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
      Scott Brick is second only to Ray Porter as a narrator. Just wish he had narrated all of the male parts in Harlan’s books; I am listening to all his books, even the ones with female narrators.
    • 5/5
      Love the twists and turns. Performance five stars. Can’t get enough.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 4/5
      Yesterday my Mom stopped by and saw I was reading this book and said she LOVES this author and has read so many of his novels. This is the first of his books I've read and I understand why she likes his work so much. I had a very hard time putting it down. I stayed up late reading until I had to stop. I never could guess what was going on and why Natalie was missing and why so many people wanted to kill Jake. The twists and turns were wonderful. I like when I have no clue what is going on until the end. Harlan will take you on an enjoyable ride with this book. I plan to read more of his work and I have become a fan. I highly recommend this book.
    • 5/5
      Very good read. I couldn't put it down,it was such an twister. With so many surprises.
    • 4/5
      Written in a down-to-earth way that keeps you guessing & reading, until the last page.
    • 3/5
      "I sat in the back pew and watched the only woman I would ever love marry another man."

      The burning questions of this novel... Why did Natalie leave and where is she now? Well, I think as an outsider it was easy to guess why she left. But I can see why the protagonist had a hard time figuring it out. The fun of this novel is watching him try to put the pieces together and biting my nails during the anxious moments when he puts himself in real danger. In the end, the explanation isn't as simple as I expected. And the last chapter does have a slight twist.

      Harlan Coben writes exciting, easy-to-read stories. This one was ok. I couldn't really get into the mystery because I felt like it was sort of obvious. I didn't mind the book, but I wasn't blown away by it either.

      Recommended to:
      Adults who enjoy Harlan Coben or James Patterson; people who like thrillers, adventures or crime novels.
    • 2/5
      This is a very disappointing effort by Harlan Coben.Characters weren't believable at all.Jake is a college lecturer and cant get over his old love Natalie he knew 6 years ago.Story moves along but to far fetched for me.
    • 4/5
      This was my first book by Harlan Coben, but definitely not my last. Six Years is a book shrouded in mystery with this dry humor interlaced throughout that makes you laugh when you least expect it. Jake, our MC, fell in love six years ago only to abruptly lose the girl he loved to another man. Natalie (said girl) makes Jake promise never to look for her and then disappears from his life. Six years later he sees an obituary for her husband and decides to try and reconnect with Natalie. Only, the wife at the funeral is not Natalie. And so begins his quest to figure out what really happen six years a go. This book is filled with twists and surprises that leave you as confused as Jake is, especially at the beginning. Slowly the past starts unraveling itself and a picture of Natalie and the events surrounding her disappearance begins to form. By 3/4 of the way through I had pretty much figured out what happened, but I felt myself second guessing my assumptions until the end. I thoroughly enjoyed everything about this book: the plot, the characters and the writing.
    • 3/5
      I thought a lot of it was just like Tell No One.