I have been a fan of Jodi Picoult for a long time now and have worked through most of her books. Whilst Change of Heart isn't one of her newer ones it's one I've only just managed to have the time to get around to reading. Like all Picoult's books this focuses on a moral dilemma, this time the question is if your child needed a heart and the only one available was from a murderer, would you take it? The plot involves a double murder involving a child and a police officer. The person responsible for the murders is convicted and sentenced to death. Eleven years later the widowers other child is seriously ill and desperately needs a heart to save her life, so far ...  Read the complete review

For a brief time I was somewhat hooked on Jodi Picoult's writing (I was staying with friends for quite a long time and they had a whole shelf full of her novels!) however after a while I began to find it very formulaic and this was the book which finally put me off her completely. The novel has a strong and controversial plot line as all her novels do - in this case it revolves around a prisoner (Shay Bourne) on death row for the murder of a young girl and her police officer father. The twist concerns the fact that the mother of the murdered girl has another daughter who requires a heart transplant and Shay has offered to donate his heart to her after he is ...  Read the complete review

Jodi Picoult has an amazing talent. I'm not referring to her writing skills here (although she's exceptionally talented in that area too), but to her talent of creating the most horrendous moral dilemmas. I've read a few of her books and most of them revolve around dilemmas that we can only hope and pray that we never, ever come across. At face value some of them seem contrived and unrealistic. But here is where Ms Picoult's writing talent comes in - she makes the characters and situation so real that you can help feeling that this could really happen, and wondering "what would I do"? Imagine the scenario - your husband and seven year old daughter ...  Read the complete review

Shay Bourne is an inmate on I-Tier in high security prison facing execution by lethal injection, for the double murder of 7 year old Elizabeth Nealon and her step father, Police Officer Kurt Nealon. The wife and mother of the victims 11 years later is faced with losing her 11 year old daughter Claire who is in desperate need of a life saving heart transplant. With Shays execution imminent he hears that Claire needs the heart transplant and is convinced he must be the donor in order to 'make things right' The only problem here is that the chemicals in the lethal injection would damage the heart and make it unsuitable for transplant. A legal battle ...  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