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	• The Tenth Circle: A Novel Jodi Picoult Washington Square Press, 2006 - 416 pages average customer review:based on 231 reviews view larger image
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Good start, bad end

I picked up this book because I enjoyed My Sister's Keeper so much. This book started off as a page turner but it slowly unraveled. The end was ridiculous and very disappointing. A fourteen year old ending up in the middle of a dog sled race in Alaska?? Come on. Stupid. Skip this one and try another of Picoult's books.

I enjoyed it.

I read it in two days. And I really enjoyed it. I hated the ending. I had just finished reading The Pact (which was also good) and these books seemed very similiar. But still overall a good read, it kept me interested. I read her book Vanishing Acts and I feel like I haven't been able to find a good book like that one since.

"Nothing is easier then self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true."- Demosthenes

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Love this author, but not this book

I've read most of Jodi Picoult's books, and truly appreciate her mastery of characterization. In this one, however, I feel that there was just too much going on. The premise was promising, and the storyline started out to be very engrossing. I found the whole parallel of Dante's circles of hell with what the father was going through to be very clever and interesting. I thought the concept of using cartoons (since the father was a comic artist) interspersed throughout the book was fresh and new. But overall, there was something missing, a link that would somehow pull it all together. Even though the characters were complex and had intriguing backgrounds, I just couldn't connect with any of them, especially Trixie, who was at the heart of the story. Maybe if I could have felt some sympathy for her, there would have been that emotional attachment to a character to help, but instead I felt nothing. Overall, the story seemed too long and drawn-out and then abruptly came to an unsatisfying end. When I turned the last page, I was left with this empty, unsettled feeling. I realize that I'm not going to love every book by a certain author. I commend Picoult for tackling a very difficult and sensitive subject matter, but this definitely was not one of my favorites.

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