Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
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Book Reviews of Nineteen Minutes
Book Review: Bookstore Purchase
Summary: 5 Stars
A great page turner until page 154. DON'T BUY FROM AMAZON! Original & replacement book had many pages missing. Once the story gets back on track
there is a duplicate page from many chapters before. If you want to read
check out the pages at your local bookstore before purchase. You'll love the character development.
Book Review: Nineteen Minutes
Summary: 4 Stars
Readers of Picoult will find this novel a bit different. She has taken on an important though disturbing topic. Well researched and current as a school shooting, Ninteen Minutes is a must read for teachers and parents of today's teens.Book Review: Happiness = Reality / expectations... I expected more from this book than I got, therefore...
Summary: 3 Stars
Like one of the other reviewers, the happiness formula (happiness = reality divided by expectations) was one of the most intriguing parts of this novel. However, I felt that the relationship between Alex and Josie was cardboard - two dimensional. It seemed like Picoult had in mind the story she wanted to tell and she wasn't going to let her characters get in the way of it. Often the characters seemed like they were chess pieces being moved around by an omniscient narrator - they didn't feel real to me. And many of their decisions seemed outside of the bounds of what someone would do in their given situation. I enjoyed reading the novel but it seemed to lose steam towards the end... I was looking forward to hearing what Peter had to say on the stand, but was disappointed with how that was handled. The twist at the end had little impact because it was not believable to me. I went along with it but was not emotionally involved anymore. Overall, the novel was fun to read and well written. Perhaps having less characters to juggle would have given Mrs. Picoult a chance to go deeper in creating life-like people who I could connect with.Book Review: Loved it!
Summary: 4 Stars
I loved this book. Found it wasn't as good as others she has written but it still held my interest to the end. I found the story a bit choppy as it skipped around in time and among characters a little too often for my taste.Book Review: Great Twist
Summary: 3 Stars
The book was a little confusing in the beginning by bringing in constant new people from past, present, back to the past, then present. It made sense (looking back), but it could have been better written and planned out.
Anyhoo, the book itself seemed to drag on to get to the point. Once it started building the anticipation, it could get interesting, until it went back to the past again.
The end was somewhat predictable. Anyone with any sense could figure out what would happen to him. The twist at the very end was the most interesting part of the book.