This story explores the rippling effect of trauma brought on by sudden violence and the choices we make in dealing with it because of our human nature.
This was my first Jodi Picoult book. It took me a little while to get into the rhythm of the story-telling, but then I really enjoyed it. The effects of a murder on the family and friends of the killer is a topic that has interested me before and one that I don't think is covered in fiction that oft...
Jodi Picoult at her best. I've enjoyed almost all books I've ever read by her (with the noticable exception of "The Pact") and this is one of her most powerful books. She put me into the mind of a school shooter and managed to make me understand why he acted the way he did.A powerful, heartbreaking ...
I enjoyed this book, it kept me rivited, I was crying in some parts just thinking of what that poor boy endured from Kindergarten on up to the shooting, then thinking of what the other students endured on that awful day. Overall it was a great book, but I found the ending a bit "rushed" and everyth...
This book was really compelling. I read it in a single day, staying up past 2:00 to finish it, because I just couldn't put it down. That is what I mean when I say I "really liked it". But, darn it, I was so disappointed in it, when I finished it. It didn't leave any loose ends or anything, but t...
Nineteen minutes is the amount of time it takes Peter Houghton to kill ten people and wound 19 more on one March morning at Sterling High School. Nineteen Minutes is also the title of Jodi Picoult's latest novel, the story of a high-school shooting spree similar to Columbine and others, but with one...
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