April: Reads
No lj-cut this time as I only have one book to review for April. It's not that I wasn't reading, but rather that the non-fiction book I chose (The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil) was both long and definitely not an easy read. I'll say more on that one later as I didn't finish it until May.
Since I didn't want to drag my nice copy of the aforementioned book with my on my crazy overnight bus trip to Paris, I grabbed the one below instead:
Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult (417 pages): 2.5 Stars, Good
This is a book that I got off the 'for sale' list at work as my mom loves the author and the teaser on the front cover was so intriguing that I decided to read it myself before passing it on. Although the last hundred pages got better, overall I felt that this idea was poorly handled. It could have gone a lot of places and it didn't, leaving us instead with just a taster. I also found the shifting pov in the first person wasn't handled in a way that made it easy to follow.
Since I didn't want to drag my nice copy of the aforementioned book with my on my crazy overnight bus trip to Paris, I grabbed the one below instead:
Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult (417 pages): 2.5 Stars, Good
This is a book that I got off the 'for sale' list at work as my mom loves the author and the teaser on the front cover was so intriguing that I decided to read it myself before passing it on. Although the last hundred pages got better, overall I felt that this idea was poorly handled. It could have gone a lot of places and it didn't, leaving us instead with just a taster. I also found the shifting pov in the first person wasn't handled in a way that made it easy to follow.