...surprised to find Jodi Picoult's Change of Heart to be such an irritating, contrived, absurdly derivative book. A tale of faith, parental duty and the morality of retribution, the novel is set in and around New Hampshire State Prison, specifically Death Row. There, inmate Shay Bourne awaits his upcoming execution for the murder of a young girl and her step-father some eleven years earlier. Crossing paths and narratives with Shay (for this is a novel ... ...are some interesting ideas in Change of Heart, and a decent pace which prompts us to keep reading. However, Picoult struggles to bring it neatly together and the book fizzles out into a muddled, frustrating conclusion which doesn't really answer any of the questions raised along the way. This being the first of Picoult's books that I've read, I'm prepared to accept that it might not be representative of the extent of her abilities. That said, the ...
Puggers 08.06.2009
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