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Ever since I read My Sister's Keeper, I swore I'd never read another Picoult book because I couldn't stop crying BUT I did appreciate the alternating narrations, the moral dilemma, the "grayness" of the lives and issues depicted, the legal ramifications. And since then I have read several and the same style is prevalent in each book, including this one. BUT this one stands out with the graphic art and Dante's inferno corrolation. The topics to think about are many-definitions of crime, past, pre
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Not terrible, at least by Jodi standards, but I noticed that as it neared the climax of the story, I became less and less interested instead of more hooked. Not a good sign. It was fine for what it was. And oh, the terribly dramatic (and I actually mean terribly), faux-profound endings for each section of the story! Here a few gems:
"When you stripped it [Dante's Inferno] down, it was also the story of a guy in the throes of a midlife crisis, a guy who was reevaluating the choices he'd made alon ...more
"When you stripped it [Dante's Inferno] down, it was also the story of a guy in the throes of a midlife crisis, a guy who was reevaluating the choices he'd made alon ...more

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