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As are all other Jodi Picoult books I've read, this was a great book. However, I just didn't find it to be up there with the other ones. I really wanted to like the book based on what I read on the inside cover, but it just didn't do it for me. It was another one written in multiple viewpoints, and especially when it came to reading Andrew's portion, while he was in jail...I had a lot of trouble keeping all the characters straight and remembering what was what.
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Eh, not one of the better Picoult books I have read. The story line was good enough, but not enough to keep me hooked or wanting to read. I found it to be slow and very repetitive. However, in typical Jodi Picoult fashion, it had me siding with the morally right thing to do, rather than the lawfully correct route. In the same situation, I would have done the same thing. Maybe eliminated the crack house part since there are easier ways to get a new identity now adays. The end of the book, the tri
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Not my favorite Picoult book ever but it still totally sucked me in. The story of a woman who works in search and rescue who discovers her father abducted her when she was little. All her life she believed that her mother was dead but now she finds out that her mother is alive and living in Arizona. She tries to find out what happened and why her father deprived her of a mother for all these years. The part about her father getting involved in making crystal meth in jail was pretty ridiculous, b
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This was an intense novel and a really good novel. I noticed a main theme throughout this book: the issue of judging others and their actions. Do we have the right to judge other and their actions? Do we have the right to make assumptions about others without walking a mile in their shoes? No we don't. I think this book teaches the lesson of not judging others. It teaches us to get our facts right be we slap a label on something or someone.
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great author who brings controversial topics to the front and really makes you think, What we are willing to do to protect our children
Jun 12, 2011
Kellie Demarsh
marked it as to-read
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Lauren
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Jun 20, 2010
Ichsan Putra
marked it as to-read
