Plain Truth - Jodi Picoult Reviews

I am a big fan of Jodi Picoult, having read many of her books I was excited when I found this one in Tesco for just £6. Similarly to most of Jodi Picoults books, the storyline is based around a court case. There is also a strong story of love, which is alike to many of her books. The book is set in America, based on the Amish ...  Read the complete review

The story details the tale of Katie Fisher, an unmarried girl on an Amish farm. She is found to be the mother of a dead baby found hidden in barn. As the plot unravels it is found that the baby was not stillborn but actually died a while after birth, and as such it falls into a murder investigation and Katie is accused of the crime. In usual ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

I love the Jody Picoult books, and slowly work my way through all of them. I rely on friends lending them to me and getting what is available out of the library. In the back of the books they advertise others she has written, and when I saw she had written one about some Amish people I really wanted to read it as I am intrigued about their ...  Read the complete review

I began this book, already a Jodi Picoult fan, having read 2 books previously and I wasn't disappointed. The title 'Plain Truth' refers to the Amish community or 'Plain' people. Katie, an 18 year old Amish girl has a baby out of wedlock, and the baby doesn't survive. She is being charged with murder, an unheard of occurance for Amish ...  Read the complete review

Have you ever stayed in a place where there is no electricity? That means no television, music, and computers. A place where people don't have a telephone, don't use cars. Hard to imagine nowadays, but for some people this is still the case and life is very different for them, although many are very happy and it could be argued that we are ...  Read the complete review

After reading 8 of Picoult's novels, I've come to expect the plot to be based around a court case. But that is one of the parts that I love about her novels. I never know how it will end. From Greta being almost more loyal than any man, or Alex and Josie being tested around every corner. I will read them all and hope my friends do the same, so I have someone to talk about these thought-provoking topics with. Thank you for filling my free time with non-stop thrill, suspense and emotion.

As always with Jodi Picoult novels, the book would most probably be classed as a court room drama. I feel personally these books are more character driven dramas, although as always, the story does revolve around a court case central to the story. Plain Truth is the story of a young Amish girl, who finds herself pregnant, and terrified ...  Read the complete review

I have read quite a few of Jodi Picoult's novels before, but having just finished 'Plain Truth' I feel that this was the most moving and compelling by far. In 'Plain Truth' we are taken right into the heart of the Amish (Plain) Community in America, where an eighteen year old girl, katie Fisher, is accused of murdering her new born ...  Read the complete review

I like a book that makes me think, although when I bought this book, I didn't know how much it would expect of me as a reader, let alone what I expected of the author. It sounded tempting when I read reviews on it, although I was surprised at the impact it made on me, and how it set the psychological processes into trying to make sense of the ...  Read the complete review

Firstly, I would like to than Belfin, who recommended this book in an earlier review. I had writen down this title as one to look out for at the library when I had chance. Boy am I glad I did. I must put my ' to read ' list in my bag for when i go to the library next. I am reviewing ‘Plain Truth’, which is written ...  Read the complete review

***Background*** Ever since I read My Sister’s Keeper, which was brought to my attention when it won the Richard & Judy Best Read of 2005, I’ve been hooked on her books. Her courtroom dramas are all set in very different scenarios and until the end you are never quite sure what the verdict will be. I have enjoyed them all so much ...  Read the complete review

I am a fan of Jodi Picoult, having read several of her previous books. I have just set up a Book Club and chose this as our first read. The story starts fabulously and grips you from page one. There is circumstantial evidence that leads the police, and others, to believe that Katie Fisher, a young Amish woman, has abandoned her ...  Read the complete review

The Plot This story is based in Paradise, not some heavenly place but Paradise Township in Pennsylvania home to the Fishers, an Amish family. Early one morning the body of a newborn baby is found in the barn of the Fishers farm and the police are called in to investigate. No-one in the family reports to have been pregnant ...  Read the complete review

The pastel-dominated twee jackets of the Jodi Picoult books I had seen in the shops really turned me off reading anything by the author. I know the old adage about judging a book but I take little notice of it. I did know however that Jodi Picoult is one of the most popular novelists around at the moment so when I had the chance of acquiring one ...  Read the complete review