But I gave the book a chance because Ms Picoult is one of my favorite authors. To be honest though, I thought the same when I read the excerpt Jodi Picoult published months (maybe even a year) ago on her website. I was pretty disappointed with this book. Hopefully, the next novel will be better than Lone Wolf. But I do love other novels by Jodi Picoult and would recommend many of them. I found her research to be fascinating and wished more could have been incorporated about them. The only redeeming quality of the book, for me, was the information about wolves. The 'surprise' ending was so poorly done that it was truly unbelievable. If there weren't names at the beginning of each chapter, I would have said this was a first person omnicient narrator.įurthermore, the plot was at times contrived and at other times wholly unrealistic. In this novel however, the voices of each character were so similar as to be indistinguishable from one another. One of my favorite things about reading a novel by Picoult is her use of voice. The characters were underdeveloped, the voices stagnant, and the plot unrealistic. To me, it feels like she just didn't have enough time to really get at the heart of the novel. It was one of those books that you read 150 pages in, decide you don't really like the book, but feel like you have to finish it just because you've already put so much effort into reading it. Not only was this book not enjoyable, it was physically painful to read. For the most part, you would never be able to tell they are written so quickly. When I've read or listened to interviews she's given, I am always amazed that she writes all of her novels in about 9 months. I'm always excited to see when she's written something new and can't wait for it to come into print. I've read 13 of them, most of which were thoroughly enjoyable (with only a couple of notable exceptions-Songs of the Humpback Whale for one). Let me start by saying, I love Jodi Picoult's novels.

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