Second Glance by Jodi Picoult

Second Glance by Jodi Picoult


My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I thought this book was amazing and definitely the best book I have read so far from Jodi Picoult.
The book was well written and researched. I loved the characters and the emotional rollercoaster Picoult takes them through.
I really don't want to say much about the actual storyline as I feel it would give too much away and the new reader needs to let the story unfold itself.


Synopsis from Jodi Picoult dot com:

Do we love across time? Or in spite of it? A developer has slated an ancient Abenaki Indian burial ground for a strip mall, and now strange happenings have tiny Comtosook, Vermont, talking of supernatural forces at work. Ross Wakeman is a ghost hunter who's never seen a ghost-all he's searching for is something to end the pain of losing his fiance Aimee in a car accident. He tried suicide-any number of times. Now Ross lives only for a way to connect with Aimee from beyond. Searching the site for signs of the paranormal, Ross meets the mysterious Lia, who sparks him to life for the first time in years. But the discoveries that await Ross are beyond anything he could dream of in this world-or the next. Expertly entwining a powerful drama of the heart's redemption and the disturbing real-life history of the VT eugenics project of the 1930s, Second Glance asks if truth is always something that can be measured… and if what can be measured is indeed always true.

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Angels and Demons by Dan Brown

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown


My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I absolutely loved this book and couldnt put it down. The story unfolds over the course of one day when a secret brotherhood, The Illuminati, who were thought long extinct, send an assassin into the vatican.Mayhem ensues with this faced paced novel.

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The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold


My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I found this compelling reading from start to finish.
It is about a little girl who gets horribly murdered by a serial killer and the story is told through her in heaven and how she watches over her grieving family and friends.
Beautifully written and a very emotional read.

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Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel

Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel


My rating: 3 of 5 stars


This book is about The Holocaust using animals. The central character is Henry who is a novelist having had one book be a huge success, finds it difficult to get published his latest offering which is about the Holocaust.
He moves away and eventually, through a series of events, leads him to a taxidermest who has written a play about The Holocaust through Beatrice and Virgil who are a stuffed donkey and a howler monkey.
I found this book strange, weird but compelling and couldn't put it down.

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The Blue Zone by Andrew Gross

The Blue Zone by Andrew Gross


My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Business man Ben Raab is arrested and investigated by the FBI for laundering money for a Columbian mobsters. He and his family are put into the witness protection programme but his oldest daughter kate decides she does not want to do this. She tries to carry on with her life, but others have very different ideas. It leads Kate on a discovery about how her father really is.
This is a great thriller and full of suspense.It is a real page turner and very well written.

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The Perfect Murder by Peter James

The Perfect Murder by Peter James


My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This book is very well written. I enjoyed every page.
Victor and his wife Joan, can't stand each other. They have been married for 20 years.
Victor wants to kill his wife but unbeknown to him, Joan wants to kill him too.

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Book's read

I have got behind in my blogging of book's I have read so I will list them here in one entry so I can start afresh with new books.

Vengeance in Death by J.D Robb
Agatha Raison and the Terrible Tourist by M C Beaton
Doctors and Nurses by Lucy Ellmann
Artic Drift by Clive cussler
The Last Oracle by James Rollins
Agatha Raison and the Wellspring of Death by M C Beaton
Holiday in Death by J D Robb
Death of a Gossip by M C Beaton
The Third Pig Detective Agency by Bob Burke