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Book Review of Small Great Things

Small Great Things
Small Great Things
Author: Jodi Picoult
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Hardcover
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I did not like this book at all. About â of the way through it I stopped reading it. I ended up picking it back up and finishing it because my mother read it and said it gets better. It did not really get much better. The two main characters are very annoying and I hated both of them. Turk, is a very racist, mean white supremesist. The other, Ruth, is a black nurse who is paranoid and thinks the whole world is against her because she is black. If someone cuts her in line in the store, it must be because she is black, etc. She ends up taking care of the supremacists baby and something goes wrong. There is another character, a lawyer, who defends Ruth. The lawyer is more of a normal person, not as extreme as the other two. I am used to Jodi Picoult's book to have more suspense and twists but this book did not. I ends exactly like you think it will. Boring!