Tina E. (tme2468) - , reviewed on 3/28/2013 + 7 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 1

This was only my second Jodi Picoult story I've read, the other being My Sister's Keeper, which I thought was very good.

The first part of this book is typical of the way books are written today. With one character telling his side of the story then flipping to another character in another chapter with his/her story. This part of the book is not very good. The story is building, but very slow. The storyteller (Jodi Picoult) doesn't do a good job with this section of telling the story.

Once you get to the second part of the book, the Storyteller (both Picoult and the character storyteller) does a very good job interacting all the players and writing the old fashioned way - seeing different points of view from different sides all the while keeping the reader in suspense. Once into this part of the book, it is difficult to put the book down.

Also, the story of the girl, the soldier, the grandaughter and her friends are all very interesting. the story-in-the-story, I sometimes skipped over as that was not very interesting.

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