Songs of the Humpback Whale - Jodi Picoult Reviews

This is a review of the 1992 book 'Songs of the Humpback Whale' by Jodi Picoult. My book is a 2009 reprint so features a different cover to the one pictured but it is still on the theme of apples, which is in-keeping with the content of the book. A little about This book is one of Picoult's early novels and I have read a ...  Read the complete review

I've been reading Jody Picoult novels for some time now and have managed to get most of her books, either from the library or by buying new or second hand. The first book I read was Mercy, closely followed by Second Glance, Plain Truth until I have only her latest to read. One I found hard to get was this one, Songs of the Humpback ...  Read the complete review

I am a big Jodi Picoult fan. I havn't gotten around to reading all of her books yet, but I am working my way through them all. Despite this being her first book I have only recently managed to get around to reading it. ~Brief outline of the story~ Jane Jones has lived in her husbands shadow for years. Oliver ...  Read the complete review

I have read a few of Jodi Picoults books and when my friend offered to lend me Songs of the Humpback Whale I jumped at the chance, as I'd always liked Picoult's offerings. Inside the book I learned that this is Picoults first book, written when aged 25 and as she explained in the middle of the ages of the two main female characters. ...  Read the complete review

Before reading this book the only other Jodi Picoult book which I had read was My Sisters Keeper (see review) which I really enjoyed and so I had high hopes for this one. My front cover is different from the one on the picture here it features a girl sitting in a yellow outfit holding an apple on a step the eyes and top of ...  Read the complete review

I love Jodi Picoult. I love how she writes, and this book is one of my favourites. It's about Jane and Oliver, and Jane is so frustrated she hits her husband and walks out, taking their fifteen year old daughter with her. The book chronicles both Jane's, Rebecca's and Oloiver's thoughs, as well as the characters who surround ...  Read the complete review

As a huge fan of Jodi Picoult's novels I decided to check out Song's of the humpback whale, mainly drawn to this as the next choice due to it's strange title. Which thankfully does become clear as your read the book. Songs of the humpback whale is the story of Jane and Oliver Jones, their fifteeen year old daughter and a ...  Read the complete review

I have read many of Jodi Picoult's books and this is one of the better ones as I have found that some of her later books are a bit formulaic. This book is not new but was written before My Sister's Keeper made the author so popular, and I felt that it was more original (and maybe a little less rushed under publisher pressure!!) than some ...  Read the complete review

Thank goodness I've finished this book! It looked so promising too - the strapline on the front cover reads, 'You were hurt as a child. Now you fear for your daughter. WHAT WOULD YOU DO?' As a reader, you feel the book may challenge you - make you want to question your own judgement - but - guess what - it ...  Read the complete review

I've got mixed feelings about Jodi Picoult's books, they tend to be formulaic and sensationalistic but they are normally real page turners, the type of book that you don't want to put down. The latest of her blockbusters to hit the UK shelves is "Songs Of The Humpback Whale" which is not a new book, it is her first novel which ...  Read the complete review

This has to rank as one of the worst Jodi Picoult books that I have read, that is in part testament to the fact that the quality of her work is usually very hgh, this is by a long way not the worst ook I have ever read in fact it is better than most, just that it is not good for her. Also this is an early piece of work for her and so can ...  Read the complete review

What another brilliant read from a brilliant author. This was my second book from Jodi and it didn't let me down. It captured me right from the start where after the first couple of chapters you realise there are a few main characters who include Jane, Rebecca, Oliver,and Uncle Joley. Jane leaves with her daughter ...  Read the complete review

I recently read in a magazine about "cringe fests"; apparently in New York on the comedy scene there is a fad for reading aloud your teenage angst diary to an audience, for the comic effect. I am not suggesting that this, Jodi Picoult's first book, now reprinted after her recent successes in the UK is a cringe fest at all, but ...  Read the complete review

Jodi Picoults earlier work, which has been released in the UK in paperback and hardback, following on from her success with the film adaptation of My Sister's Keeper. Rebecca and her Mum, Jane, are on the run from her father, Oliver, who became vulgar and abusive toward Jane in their last encounter. They are being guided ...  Read the complete review

Songs of the Humpback Whale was first released back in 1991 but it has only recently been published for in the UK. Jodi Picoult isn't one to hold back on her subjects, ranging from suicide pacts and rape to a daughter who is seeing God in the form of a young child. This one I feel is slightly different. There's nothing unusual in a ...  Read the complete review

Ever since I read my first Jodi Picoult novel, I have been a huge fan of this writer and have yet to read a book which fails to live up to my expectations. Therefore, I could not wait to read Song of the Humpback Whale and yet again I was not disappointed. From the moment I started to read I was caught up in the lives of all the ...  Read the complete review