We can't keep Jodi Picoult on the shelves in the bookstore where I work. I picked this one up just to see what all the fuss is about and before I knew what was happening I was a hundred pages into it.

Picoult's great strength seems to lie in creating a suspenseful build-up as the reader waits for Devastating Tragedy to descend on her characters. Unfortunately, she doesn't seem to know what to do after that and covers up by adding one big 'dramatic' plot twist after another.

It could have been saved if the characters had more than one dimension. Apparently, that was too much to hope for.

Eventually I did managed to drag myself to the end of this book at which point I was left feeling resentful over the time I wasted reading it.