Change of Heart - Jodi Picoult

It's not very often that I get excited about a book release, as I just don't like to pay the prices of newly released hardback books. But I do make an exception for Jodi Picoult's novels, and when I heard a few months ago that Change of Heart was to be released this month, I saved up one of my Waterstones vouchers especially for it! I eagerly picked up my copy on Thursday and took it to the counter and started reading it as soon as I got home, and managed to finish it at 1am on Sunday morning..it was that good that I just couldn't put it down. Like all of Picoult's book, this one has a controversial main storyline and a court case, so nothing new there. Even ...  Read the complete review

***Background*** For most book readers, Jodi Picoult needs no introduction. Her name was made very familiar to me after hearing wonderful things on Richard and Judy where her book, My Sister's Keeper, was flung into the limelight. Since then I have read the majority of her books and when I was in America last year I went out of my way to visit a bookstore so I could get my hands on some of her earlier novels that aren't published in the UK as yet. This one though is her latest over here and as soon as I heard about it I went online to reserve a copy from the library. It didn't take me long to read it and to be honest I was desperate to write a ...  Read the complete review

From the very first page I was absorbed in Jodi Picoult's latest novel 'Change of Heart' It tells the story of Shay Bourne, who was convicted of the double murder of a police officer and his step daughter eleven years ago. He was sentenced to die by lethal injection and now that all appeals are used up and his death is imminent, he wants to be able to do one final thing in order to make some sense of his life. The wife and mother of the victims is June Nealon, and if she had not already witnessed enough tragedy in her life, her younger daughter Claire is seriously ill and will die unless a heart transplant takes place. Shay hears of her plight whilst watching a local ...  Read the complete review

"Faith is like Electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light." (Author unknown) Excuse the philosophising, but if empty pontificating has got a hold of me, it's this book that's to blame. If Faith is indeed like Electricity, then so, I think, is a good novel - we don't necessarily need or want to see the workings too clearly, we want to see and feel the product. That is, we want to be able to immerse ourselves in the story and let the author take control, without feeling like we're being pulled roughly through a narrative littered with clunky symbolism, beaten ...  Read the complete review

If I had to select one person as my favourite author then I'd say it would currently be a close call between Philippa Gregory and Jodi Picoult. Although their books are far from similar in terms of content, Gregory tends to write historical novels from around the era of Henry VIII while Picoult prefers more modern novels, they both write equally addictive and enjoyable novels. I've just finished Jodi Picoult's latest offering which was entitled Change of Heart and I was far from disappointed by it! The Author Jodi Picoult is an American author who has had fifteen books published to date; Change of Heart is her most recent offering although her ...  Read the complete review