Jodi Picoult: Salem Falls
Fiction - Detective/Crime
Published by Hodder & Stoughton 2005
Initially I found it difficult to get into this novel due to Picoult's tendency to fluctuate between character's stories. She begins with one character and then just as she is about to divulge some interesting facts or insight into their lives, she swaps to someone else. She has an interesting array of characters; an agitated man who attempts to turn his life around after being convicted of a crime, a lonely woman wary of opening up her heart after major loses in her life, and regular school girls who dabble in dark magic. Salem Falls then is certainly not lacking in interesting characters.
Picoult's novel is packed full of exciting stories; it is a frame story because it has many stories within its main story. Once into this interesting novel, it becomes a book you cannot put down as we will on the protagonist, hoping it will all come out good in the end. Annoyingly though, there are some questions which remain unanswered.
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