Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Picoult

What would you do if you were bullied every single time you went to school? If your whole life was miserable because of a group of students? Would this be made even worse if one of these students used to be your best and only friend? Imagine being taunted, bullied and subjected to physical and verbal abuse every single day. This was exactly what life was like for Peter Houghton, until one day he decided to fight back... The Author Jodi Picoult is an American author who at the age of 41 has a massive fourteen books under her belt, the majority of which have soared into the best selling charts in both America and the UK. Her books typically revolve ...  Read the complete review

When Nineteen Minutes was released earlier this year, I bought it in a hardback edition as I was quite desperate to read another Jodi Picoult having finished my last book of hers quite a while beforehand. I actually forgot about this one until about 10 days ago when I saw it on my bookshelf, so when I wanted to read a new book I grabbed this one and looked forward to a very good read. And as usual with Jodi Picoult, I wasn't disappointed! The main story of the book goes like this. Sterling is a small town in New Hampshire, a sleepy town where not a lot happens. Until one fateful day in March 2006 when the world of Sterling is changed forever, when a boy who is ...  Read the complete review

I'm quite a fan of Jodi Picoult's work and try and read as much of her stuff as I can, I'd been wanting to read this for a while but been a little skint lately so I didn't want to spend any money, as soon as my local library finally got it in I snatched it off the shelf with glee. The Blurb Sterling is a small, ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens - until a student enters the local high school with an arsenal of guns and starts shooting, changing the lives of everyone in and out. The daughter of the judge sitting on the case should be the state's best witness - but with her boyfriend dead and her childhood friend charged with ...  Read the complete review

Nineteen Minutes is the 14th of Jodi Picoult's contemporary novels, this time the subject matter is a severely bullied teenager who takes his revenge by going to school one day with four guns resulting in him killing 10 students and teachers and wounding 19 others. **~~ The plot and characters ~~** Peter Houghton is a seventeen year old student living in a small town who, since his first day in kindergarden, has been bullied verbally and physically by his fellow classmates, in particular, the "popular" kids in school as well as his older brother Joey. As a small child, he is best friends with Josie Cormier, another girl his age who ...  Read the complete review

Jodi Picoult is a favourite of mine. You can usually expect to find some kind of twist in her novels which show a whole new perspective on things. Possibly why I enjoy them so much. That's not to say that all of her books are interesting. On a few occasions I haven't been able to finish them, just as in this case where it took me a fair few attempts to reach the ending. Nineteen Minutes follows the story of Peter Houghton. Bullied at school, he takes matters into his own hands when no one else will help. It's the last thing anyone would of expected of him when he shoots and kills 9 students and 1 teacher whilst injuring many others. At first everyone ...  Read the complete review