I read this for book club otherwise I probably would have stopped reading it 1/4 of the way in (still wishing that I would have). Picoult tried to do too much and it just didn't work. A drunk ex-detective haunted by his choices, a psychic who has a comic flare to her, a biologist studying elephants with lots of interesting elephant behavior thrown in...just too many threads that didn't mesh.
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult
Rating: 2.5
I read this for book club otherwise I probably would have stopped reading it 1/4 of the way in (still wishing that I would have). Picoult tried to do too much and it just didn't work. A drunk ex-detective haunted by his choices, a psychic who has a comic flare to her, a biologist studying elephants with lots of interesting elephant behavior thrown in...just too many threads that didn't mesh.
The whole thing felt cheezy with an ending that, IMO, you can only pull off if you have a great story line and characters that you are bought in to 100%, which this definitely did not. I am only rating it as high as I did as I really enjoyed the parts on the elephants.
I read this for book club otherwise I probably would have stopped reading it 1/4 of the way in (still wishing that I would have). Picoult tried to do too much and it just didn't work. A drunk ex-detective haunted by his choices, a psychic who has a comic flare to her, a biologist studying elephants with lots of interesting elephant behavior thrown in...just too many threads that didn't mesh.
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