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I flew through this audiobook - Jodi piccoult totally delivers on the trashy trash.
I'd only read one other Picoult book, A Perfect Match, prior to this one, and I couldn't get into it. So when this book was chosen for my book club, I was dreading reading it. But, to my surprise, I couldn't put it down. While the writing itself wasn't anything particularly extraordinary, I found myself identifying with a couple of the main characters (both Josie and Peter, in different ways). And though the big "plot twist" at the end was, at least in my case, 100% predictible by the midway po
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Although I swore that I would never read Picoult again, I couldn't help myself because of the issue that is the premise of her latest novel. A boy who is bullied shoots up a school, Columbine-style, and the book is about what happens after. Generally, schoolkillers commit suicide so we don't get a chance to find out what happens after they commit the heinous act. However, Picoult does a good job of telling the events that led up to that tragic day and the effect that it has on both the killer's
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Aug 21, 2009
Erin (NY)
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This book was quite good! I read My Sister's Keeper, and I heard a lot that all of Picoult's books are very similar. I thought this was a good book by itself and not too much like My Sister's Keeper.
This book is very good at exploring the person's psyche. It was interesting how the subject in this case is a school shooter, an antagonist. The character of Josie was not too well-written. She is a very portent person to the story, but I think Picoult doesn't do a very good job explaining her motiva ...more
This book is very good at exploring the person's psyche. It was interesting how the subject in this case is a school shooter, an antagonist. The character of Josie was not too well-written. She is a very portent person to the story, but I think Picoult doesn't do a very good job explaining her motiva ...more
It took me awhile to get through this book because it was so intense and there were so many emotions invovled. I'm amazed at how Jodi was able to put so many issues in this one book without it feeling cluttered or like it was too much. Great book overall.
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This book got a lot of hype, but it wasn't very good in my opinion. The characters were all vague... I had no emotional connection with any of them. It deals with an intense topic, yet I feel Picoult failed with this book. Once again, my opinion.
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Wow this book was amazing. I loved the characters and her writing is always so beautiful. I couldn't put it down.
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Sep 11, 2011
Deedee
marked it as to-read
Aug 03, 2012
Ruth
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Jun 26, 2014
Tiffany
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Sep 13, 2015
Kirsty
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Oct 16, 2015
Vesra (When She Reads)
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Jun 26, 2017
Jennifer
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Lauren Courtney
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