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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14864.Plain_Truth?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Plain Truth" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1166668457m/14864.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14864.Plain_Truth?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Plain Truth</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7128.Jodi_Picoult">Jodi Picoult</a><br/><br/>
  <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22289437?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
  rating: 3 of 5 stars<br/>I wish I could give this 3.75 stars, but I can't. This is the story about a dead infant found on an Amish farm. A big-city attorney takes the case and ends up moving onto the farm for several months in order to allow the girl accused of the murder of the baby to be let out on bail. My favorite thing about this book was the bird-eye view into the Amish culture, Picoult actually did live on an Amish farm for a week as part of her research for the story. It's a fascinating religion and I loved learning about the people that live so different from the rest of us. The story was compelling and gripping and as always I loved Picoult's writing--but I figured out who-done-it about 1/3 of the way through and I didn't much care for the main characters (Amish girl and attorney) they weren't 'trustworthy' narrators of the story in my opinion and were hard to figure out. The story also hinges on some pretty in depth psychological stuff that I found suspect and I did not like the portrayal of a star struck girl falling in love and stepping out of her beliefs for a roll in the hay yet with no remorse for it--that did not feel reasonable to me. I enjoyed the learning of this book better than any of Picoults, but the details got under my skin a little. The language wasn't bad, and there were only a couple sexual scenes.
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recommended for: Anyone that wants to learn more about the Amish

I wish I could give this 3.75 stars, but I can't. This is the story about a dead infant found on an Amish farm. A big-city attorney takes the case and ends up moving onto the farm for several months in order to allow the girl accused of the murder of the baby to be let out on bail. My favorite thing about this book was the bird-eye view into the Amish culture, Picoult actually did live on an Amish farm for a week as part of her research for the story. It's a fascinating religion and I loved learning about the people that live so different from the rest of us. The story was compelling and gripping and as always I loved Picoult's writing--but I figured out who-done-it about 1/3 of the way through and I didn't much care for the main characters (Amish girl and attorney) they weren't 'trustworthy' narrators of the story in my opinion and were hard to figure out. The story also hinges on some pretty in depth psychological stuff that I found suspect and I did not like the portrayal of a star ...more

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