The Match by Harlan Coben | Book Review

Harlan Coben is a new author, sort of, to me. I have seen some of his television programs in the past so I know of his work but I hadn’t read any of it until now.
The Match by Harlan Coben
Series: Wilde #2
Genres: Mystery, Thriller

'At the age of somewhere between 35 and 45 - he didn't know exactly how old he was - Wilde found his father ...'

Wilde has grown up knowing nothing of his family, and even less about his own identity . All he knows is that, as a young child, he was found living a feral existence in the Ramapo mountains of New Jersey.

He became known simply as Wilde, the boy from the woods.

Now Wilde has had a hit on the DNA website he has been researching. A 100% match. His father. They meet up, and Wilde soon realises that his father doesn't even know he had a son and is as mystified as Wilde is by his existence.

Undaunted, Wilde continues his research for his family on DNA websites where he becomes caught up in a community of online doxxers, a secret group committed to exposing anonymous trolls.

Then one by one these doxxers start to die, and it soon becomes clear that a serial killer is targeting this secret community - and that his next victim might be Wilde himself ...

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This is the sequel to The Boy in the Woods, which I haven’t read. I will say after reading this one I think I should have read the first one. While this does work as a stand alone I think I felt as though I missed out on learning more about Wilde. He grew up alone in the wilderness but now has uploaded his DNA on an ancestry site in the hopes of figuring out who his parents were.

He finds the match to one parent as well as another possible family member. That family member leads him on a journey filled with danger. There are some murders, reality show contestants, and plenty of twists to leave you guessing. That is one thing that drew me to this book. Having watched a few of the television series based on Coben’s books in the past I knew he always had plenty of twists and turns that leave you guessing. 

The Match is no exception to that. Every single time it seems like I was figuring things out there would be a twist that left me wondering what was going on. It is by far one of the best mysteries that I have read this year so far. It was entertaining and I had to read it all in one sitting. I just had to know what happened.