Mspringman's Reviews > Vanishing Acts
Vanishing Acts
by Jodi Picoult (Goodreads Author)
by Jodi Picoult (Goodreads Author)
This book was very dramatic. It was about a girl named Delia Hopkins whose father kidnapped her when she was four and took her, under false names, from Arisona to New Hampshire. She grows up and lives a pretty normal life; she becomes a search-and-rescue official, finding missing children, she has a daughter named Sophie, and gets engaged to Eric Talcott, a recovering alcoholic lawyer. But when Delia is thirty-two, she discovers this secret about her past when the police come to her door to arrest her father. Things only become more complicated when her fiance, Eric, is assigned to be her father's attorney. The story follows the confusing case as it unravels, and it never runs out of surprise twists. I liked it overall, but I disliked the main character, and I thought it was annoying that so many twists were thrown into the plotline near the end. But I could relate to the part at the end where everyone is trying to figure out if a witness's memory is real or fake. I often mix up dreams with reality. I would recommend this book to anyone trying to figure out who they really are, but not to anybody under 8th grade, because it is very confusing and at times, disturbing.
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