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Picoult's greatest strength is her ability to glean insights about human behavior and the darkest, most hidden parts of people...and then bring them to light. In that regard, she doesn't disappoint this time around. I was intrigued by each character, from Daniel, a man who spent a great deal of his life in Alaska and had a dark, troubled past...to his wife, Laura, a woman who'd been drawn to the rebel spirit in Daniel and then grew disappointed when he became more conventional. While I always finish Picoult's books (for, even at her worst, she is very, very good in fleshing out characters and gleaning insights about human behavior) I was hoping that she'd create a tale that seemed believable in both tone and plot. This one did not. Still, she gets kudos for taking risks, for combining comic book form with straight narrative and for making comparisons to Dante's Inferno in much of the situations. This time, however, she just couldn't seem to pull all the various parts together...but she came very, very closeRead full review
An excellent read. As with all her books, Jodi Picoult takes a tough subject and goes right to the heart of it. In the Tenth Circle she deals with a teenage girl's first love & all the emotions that go along with it. She then takes it a step further & dives into date rape & the consequences from the perspectives of everyone involeved. I love her books because they deal with things in a realitsic manner. She helps you to view things from different points of view, which often give you a better understanding & different outlook on how things happen & how it affrcts the lives of all involved. I have yet to pick up one of her books that did not give me an excellent read!
I have enjoyed Jodi Picoult's writings and this is another that I will add to that list. She writes descriptive stories, but I keep hoping she will write one that is not so terribly sad. She takes world problems and makes them personal and I enjoy her characters. This story tells of customs of a culture that I did not know about and I enjoyed reading and learning. Keep telling stories!
As a huge Jodi fan, and having read almost all of her books, I have no idea what happened with this one. It's WAY out there. It jumps all over the place, having somewhat something to do with the daughter and how her life is, but the dark, strange drawings and cartoons the father is into is just too much. I find this way off the beaten path for Jodi, and it's not in the same string line of books that she normally writes. I had to struggle to get to the end and was very disappointed in this one. Hard to read, all over the place, and books goes nowhere fast. 3 stars.
This author is very good.... I am hooked on her writing since I read My sisters Keeper.... The tenth Circle is very well written and a great book all around..... I would highly recommend this book and all her books.
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