Caught

Description:
Seventeen-year-old Haley McWaid is a good girl, the pride of her suburban New Jersey family, headed off to college next year with all the hopes and dreams her doting parents can pin on her. Which is why, when her mother wakes one morning to find that Haley never came home the night before and three months quickly pass without word from the girl, the community assumes the worst.

Wendy Tynes is a reporter on a mission: to bring down sexual predators via elaborate—and nationally televised—sting operations. Wendy and her team have shamed dozens of men by the time she encounters her latest target. Dan Mercer is a social worker known as a friend to troubled teens, but his story soon becomes more complicated than Wendy could have imagined.

Caught tells the story of a missing girl, the predator who may have taken her, and the reporter who suddenly realizes she can’t trust her own instincts about this story—or the motives of the people around her.





written by Harlan Coben
ISBN: 9780525951636

Comments:
Harlan Coben is one of my favorite authors. His incredible plots keep me turning the pages late into the night. CAUGHT is a thriller about the fragility of innocence and the hope of forgiveness.

The novel revolves around Wendy Tynes, a widowed TV reporter with a high school senior son named Charlie. She's known for one of those shows where they trap child predators into coming to a house expecting to see a child but instead are greeted by television cameras and police. When she catches social worker Dan Mercer coming to the house, evidence builds that points to Dan's guilt. But of course, this is a Coben novel, and nothing is as it seems.

Across town, Haley McWaid is disappears from her suburban home. Her parents have no idea where the high school senior could be. Is her disappearance related to Dan or something else all together. And what do Dan Mercer's ex-roommates at Princeton have to do with everything. Wendy begins investigating Dan's friends and discovers even more secrets beneath the surface of the illusion of everyday life.

I guarantee the plot will keep you turning the pages. The twists are fast and furious. Coben throws in a few characters from other novels that are always fun. Wendy Tynes as the lead isn't a great character like some of the leads in THE INNOCENT or NO SECOND CHANCE, but Coben is still at the top of his game. The novel ends powerfully, making me wonder how I would act in a similar situation and making all readers wondering if they would have the strength to forgive after so much tragedy.

Trance

written by Linda Gerber

ISBN：9780142414156
Description:
Ashlyn Greenfield has always known when bad things are going to happen. Each time that familiar tingling at the back of her neck begins, she knows what's to come a trance. She's pulled in, blindsided, an unwilling witness to a horrible upcoming event. But she's never been able to stop it not even when the vision was of her mother's fatal car accident. When soulful Jake enters Ashlyn's life, she begins having trances about another car accident. And as her trances escalate, one thing becomes clear: it's up to her to save Jake from near-certain death.



My Book Comment:
Ashlyn has always known when bad things are going to happen. The doctor had called them trances or visions. Ashlyn and her older sister Kyra have been falling in to trances and having visions since they were little. Ashlyn has had trances all her life. When trances come, she just sees bits and pieces of when a future accident or death might occur. She can’t do anything and has never been able to control or prevent any of her visions from coming true, not even the car accident that killed her mother. After car crash, Ashlyn was seriously injured and her mother died.
When Ashlyn returns home from the hospital, she found life changed. Kyra had taken off and had moved out without any trace. Her father is always gone for work, and doesn’t talk or have much time for her. Ashlyn is left alone really and once have trances of another event that she does want to put it stop. She just doesn’t have an idea how to deal with them. The situation she was in that makes me felt sympathized.
This book is really about how to find yourself and take control of your life. Ashlyn has to learn to deal with everything that is going on and to take control of what happens to her. More important thing is how to connect with friends and figure out the hard time with her father. She knew she could do nothing about what she saw from her trances, but she have to learning to forgive her for what happened. It is not her fault. Once again learning to open up to people and learning to stand up for ourselves that might help. This is an interesting book for me. It includes some tragic and romantic content I do love and enjoy. I recommend it and hope you will do so.