Praise for The Pact 'This psychologically shrewd tale is as suspenseful as any bestselling legal thriller...she forges a finely honed, commanding and cathartic drama.' -Booklist Praise for Plain Truth 'An absorbing, multidimensional portrait of an Amish clan. The research is convincing, the plotting taut, the scenes wonderfully vivid.' -People In Salem Falls Jodi Picoult again weaves a compelling story with a fine touch and a firm grasp of the delicacy and complexity of human relationships. Jack St Bride was once a ...
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Praise for The Pact 'This psychologically shrewd tale is as suspenseful as any bestselling legal thriller...she forges a finely honed, commanding and cathartic drama.' -Booklist Praise for Plain Truth 'An absorbing, multidimensional portrait of an Amish clan. The research is convincing, the plotting taut, the scenes wonderfully vivid.' -People In Salem Falls Jodi Picoult again weaves a compelling story with a fine touch and a firm grasp of the delicacy and complexity of human relationships. Jack St Bride was once a highly respected teacher and soccer coach at a girls' school-until a student's crush sparked a powderkeg of accusation and robbed him of his career and reputation. Now, after a devastatingly public ordeal that left him with an eight-month jail sentence and no job, Jack resolves to pick up the pieces of his life. He takes a job washing dishes at Addie Peabody's diner and slowly starts to form a relationship with her in the quiet New England village of Salem Falls. But just when Jack thinks he has outrun his past, a quartet of teenage girls with a secret turn his world upside-down once again, triggering a modern-day witch hunt in
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Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Grubby book may have mild dirt or some staining, mostly on the edges of pages. Aged book. Tanned pages and age spots, however, this will not interfere with reading.
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Another fantastic read by jodi Picoult. A really good book to take on holiday as you won't want to put it down
nmua
Aug 2, 2008
Preposterous melodrama
Maybe it's the audio CD narrator alternating between sickly sweet mooniness, to out-of-place scorn, to stilted cardboard cut-out attempts at male voices, but I can't believe this is the effort of an award-winning writer. She apparently doesn't even know that "The reason is because" is improper English. The events in this story are so ridiculously improbable, she destroys her own credibility. The writing is at best, specious. At worst are lines like "throw away his freedom like an extra stick of gum", and sappy offerings such as "his name rolled around her mouth like a butterscotch candy" - I won't torture you by quoting descriptions of gratuitous teen (and adult) sex, or the occasional, oddly-placed crudeness. Hyperbole and melodrama reign supreme here.
reader4ever
Jul 29, 2008
Salem Falls is an awesome book! Jodi Picoult is a great story teller, and you get so engrossed with these characters in the story, that you can't put the book down until the very last page!
