3 stars
"One False Move" begins well, with a gloomy opening setting up the scene nicely as the reader is made to wonder what on earth could make a normally chipper Myron so downcast.
It's hard not to fall in love in Myron, with his witty comments and all round good nature - he's like the best friend you always wanted, and his goofiness just makes him even more appealing. Win, of course, is as fabulous as ever as Myron's best friend and upper class psychopath, and Esperanza really comes into her own in "One False Move".
One of the main problems about Coben's writing is that he sometimes tries to hard to please everybody, and as a result, his characters end up living in a perfect world. For instance, take Brenda Slaughter - she is neither white nor a size zero, and feistily independent, but then, Coben wouldn't dare make her anything else because it just wouldn't be politically correct, and that would never do. However, for once, not everything ends happily, and Coben handles this well, describing Myron's grief and suffering expertly,without resorting to schmalty cliches.
"One False Move" is grittier and more serious than the previous Myron Bolitar books, but unfortunately, it's also slower paced, and the dialogue isn't as slick or glib either.
Verdict: Whilst "One False Move" is still a decent read, it lacks the famous Bolitar charm that made the series so popular in the first place.
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