The Tenth Circle - Jodi Picoult

...ISBN-13: 978-0743496711 Price: The recommended retail price at the shops is £6.99 although you can get it cheaper at WHS with their offers...having just checked it is available for £3.98. Basic Plot: The plot of the Tenth circle twists and turns a lot flicking between characters so that you get a different viewpoint on the events at hand, but you also go back into the past of the characters and see what it is they are hiding from others and from ...
...Divine Comedy: The Inferno' which is where the title and much of the discussion in the book comes from which I shall go into more detail below... In basic, Trixie is a 14 year old girl who has just been dumped by her boyfriend and is finding it very difficult to get it together, going out with her friend Zephyr to try to make Jason jealous they end up at a very rebellious party, at the end of this party Trixie is claiming that her ex, jason, raped ...

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...totally immersed and absorbed from the first few pages. Therefore when I started to read 'The Tenth Circle' I was full of expectation. Sadly, as far as I am concerned as a reader, it did not live up to all the others I have read. I'm not quite sure why this was, as the storyline is a very good one, but perhaps the whole story meandered a little too much for my liking. I will attempt to explain... First, a little about the story. It is actually very ...
...Trixie, as she goes through the ordeal of being medically examined and then interrogated by the police. The accused boy is a leading light in the high school hockey team, and rather than turning against him, the community stands by him and it is Trixie and her family who are made to feel like the accused. This part of the book is quite compelling reading as it makes you think a lot of 'what ifs' if you were faced with the same situation. There is ...

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...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 courtroom drama that would surprise me at the end, but although a crime might or might not have taken place in this story, the format is a little bit different from her other books that I have read. ***The Story*** The Tenth Circle is a very clever book that tells the story of the love that ...
...from harm. The story centres round what appears on the outside to be a normal, successful family of three, who are torn apart when Trixie, the fourteen year old daughter, comes home in tears one night and claims she has been raped by her boyfriend. What happens next is a whirlwind of events, as Trixie attempts to hide certain facts about the evening that the alleged rape has taken place. After all, what fourteen-year-old girl wouldn't lie in front ...

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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. And it works. The story is about a man who is very much ordinary, until he faces situations that demand strength and changes into an animal - the type of animal varies and he has no control over it. ...
...daughter. Once I got to the end, I was bemused to discover that this artwork contains a hidden message too (I blame Dan Brown). For anyone who doesn't know, The Divine Comedy is an epic poem that follows Dante's guided journey through the nine circles of hell. Sinners are punished according to their sin and Lucifer dwells in the ninth and final circle. Picoult's vision of the tenth circle in the comic is inspired and the punishment cleverly thought ...

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...but I have finally turned the last page and finished the book, so I thought I might as well review it! ~*The Author*~ Jodi Picoult has written many bestsellers, including the above mentioned My Sister's Keeper, Keeping Faith, Plain Truth, The Pact, Nineteen Minutes and Perfect Match. Her latest book Nineteen Minutes, debuted at Number 1 on the New York Times Bestseller list. She has a masters degree in education and is currently working on her ...
...story of the novel is the love between Daniel Stone, and his daughter Trixie, and just how far a parent will go in order to protect their child from the unthinkable happening to them. Trixie one day comes home in tears and tells her father that she has been by her boyfriend, Jason. When she reports it to the police, it seems nothing is what it seems to be. Things a further twist when Jason makes the whole case more complicated, and implicates Trixie ...

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...further: 1. This is the only Picoult title I've ever read or particularly wanted to read. 2. I only bought it because it's written as pages of text, interlaced with panels of graphic novel (plus, I was working in Waterstone's at the time so I got the nice hardback copy cheap! Heh-heh.) I think that Jodi Picoult suffers greatly from bad marketing; the jacket art for her books is deplorably inappropriate in a variety of ways. The biggest problem ...
...away from reading the books for months, despite the great reviews and interesting subject matter. I just plain can't bear to be seen reading a book with baby-faced children on the cover! :( Not only that, but in the case of 'The Tenth Circle', I can't work out who the kid on the cover is supposed to be! I would have guessed that it would be an image of Trixie, the victim, as she was as a child. But er, guys...doesn't Picoult say that Trixie's a ...

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...towards elder readers but after the secret party, Trixie tells her father that she was raped and the person who did it was her ex-boyfriend, Jason Underhill who broke up with the fourteen year old not long ago... Picoult manages to write powerful novels that instead of having high-speed action scenes contains pages filled with emotional problems and real life dilemas that will make the reader think about what they'd do if they were in that situation. ...
...what was happening with Trixie, the writer has created characters that you could easily see in everyday life with their own personalities and mistakes. The book is written in third person so that it may dive into different character's thoughts and see what their take on the situation is. The writing style is easy to read and understand. At the end of each chapter 3-4 pages of comic artwork similar to the Marvel comics are shown, Daniel's story that ...

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The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult After reading so many good reviews on Jodi Picoult I thought I would invest in one of her most recent books and see how it went. They are not the sorts of books I would usually read as I am a big fan of chick lit and the simple ease and enjoyment that reading these books bring. However I thought I would try and see if I got into it and after reading the first few pages in Morrison’s I knew this book was going to ...
...for this book even though the RRP price on the back is set at £6.99 pence and I could of probably got it for cheaper as since I have read it I have checked eBay and seen it second hand for a mere fraction of the new price. The subject of the book is a rather dark one as most of Picoult’s books seem to be and this one is that of two parents going through the trauma brought about by their only daughter being the victim of a rape. Both Daniel and Laura ...

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...her whole life he'd been the centre of her world? But recently it seems, without him noticing it, his daughter is gone, and in her place is a stranger. Until the night fourteen-year-old Trixie comes home from a party claiming she was raped, and suddenly she needs him more than ever. Because the whole school knew Jason Underhill broke Trixie's heart, but that doesn't make him a rapist, does it? For Daniel, ther is no doubt: his daughter is innocent. ...
...read this one and the basic story line gripped me as I read the back of the book. Reading it I found the book very hard to put down and the comic snippets between each chapter added a unique touch to the book. Trixie was a very unpredictable character which kept me intrigued and I couldn't wait to read what she did next. The effect her actions had on her parents were as expected but it was how they handled her behaviour that made the story. Past ...

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This was the book that has got me hooked and wanting more and more of jodi picoults work. This story keeps changing your mind throughout the book, and makes you want to rush through to the end and find out. This is a very good book and would recommend that you read it, regardless wether you are a jodi fan or not. Another brilliant book by jodi! ...

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This was the 2nd book of Jodi Picoult's that i read. It took me a while to get into the story but once i was a few chapters in i was hooked and couldn't put the book down. I read it every chance i got. Fantastically written and great storyline ...

kerry2706 15.01.2008
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...write great stories on after the other. The charcater in The Tenth Circle aren't quite as strong or as well written as in some of Picoult's other works and to be honset not as likeable. The story line is strong and takes you in almost immediately. As usual with a Picoult novel things aren't as plai as they seem but once you've found the twist the ending is extremely predictable but some other questions are left unanswered. This is probably not Picoult ...

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