Advantages: Excellent story, interesting debate topic, realistic characters Disadvantages: Some difficult to understand American references.
I have gone through all of Jodi Picoult's books in a complete craze of insanity, I read one and I loved it, I read two and I've been hooked ever since. Personally I believe that this is one of Picoult's better works, but equally I love (nearly) all her bo ...
Advantages: Interesting plot on paper. The author really does her background research. Disadvantages: Wasn't really riveted by the fact.
...I went through a stage of reading any Jodi Picoult books that were in the local library but there came a point when they became a bit too dark and depressing and I wanted a light-hearted change. After a few months break, I spotted one that I hadn't read a ...
Advantages: a good story line Disadvantages: too many sidetracks and deviations
...I have been an avid fan of Jodi Picoult ever since I read her first book, and look forward immensely to reading them expecting to be totally immersed and absorbed from the first few pages. Therefore when I started to read 'The Tenth Circle' I was full of ...
Advantages: Raises more controversial issues Disadvantages: Guessed the ending
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I was already a fan of Jodi Picoult's novels, having already read three of them including one which won the Richard & Judy Best Read of 2005. That was of course My Sister's Keeper. When I started reading this one I was expecting a co ...
Advantages: Superb, realistic portrayal of rape Disadvantages: Nothing worth mentioning, though I'd like to see Picoult take the subject further
The most striking thing about The Tenth Circle on flicking through it is that this novel contains comic book art. In an unusual, adventurous tactic, Picoult includes this artwork as the graphic novel that the main character, Daniel Stone, is working on. A ...
