The Plain Truth?.... Brilliant! (Plain Truth - Jodi Picoult)

Member Name: mayh002

Product:	Plain Truth - Jodi Picoult
Date:	12/09/09 (29 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Research that went into the book was outstanding

Disadvantages: Some bits were a bit slow.

I am always impressed by the amount of research that Jodi Picoult puts into her books and Plain Truths was no different. The storyline was very good but what is impressive is the detail that Picoult includes when describing an Amish family. It allows the reader to have a true insight into what life in an Amish village is like.

Plain Truth starts with the discovery of a dead baby in an Amish village, the accussed is a young unmarried Amish girl who is assumed the baby's mother. The book follows Ellie an attorney who chooses to defend the young girl and to do this she has to learn the way of the Amish. The truth is shocking.

Picoult writes the novel so well. At the begining I was quite unaware of how an Amish lived and even more ignorant about their beliefs. As the story unfolded I became more and more educted about the characters and the lifestyle and really began to empathise with them. Each chapter unravels something new about the mystery, and I still wasnt sure what the outcome of the book would be, until it was revealed at the end. I was very impressed by the twist as usually I figure it out. However, anything was possible with this book, so I was never certain.

The only downside would be that it was slightly dragged out about how Ellie (attorney) lived on the farm and I felt it was ages before the Amish girl went to court. However without this I wouldnt have learnt so much about the Amish way of living

Summary: Fantastic insight to another way of life