"The Tenth Circle" is one of my favorite stories. It is basically about a teenager that is in love with Jason. However she tells the police that he raped her one night during a party. Jason gets convicted and he might go to prison. However he killed himself before he went to prison. Trixie is now the first suspect that might of have killed Jason. She decided to ran away to Alaska where her father grew up. When her father, Daniel Stone, finds her, he told the police that he was the one who killed Jason. However the police tells him that Laura, Trixie's mother, said that she was the one who killed Jason. The mystery of this story is who might of have killed Jason, and whether Trixie's life will be normal, and also if she's going to be able to have a family one again.

Mediocre. I accept that Jodi Picoult has a particular plot template that works for her, and I tend to enjoy her books (as one would enjoy popcorn for a snack - nothing much to it, but can't stop snacking). But this one really didn't excite me.

This was something different for Jodi Picoult in that she included comic book strips (very well done!) and also tried to do something a bit darker. She should really shy away from using court cases as plot devices though. it makes her books formulaic and sort of cheesy.

A huge fan of Jodi Picoult novels, this one is definitely on my list of favourites. She is so good at writing family dramas, and this book is no exception. After a horrible incident involving Trixie and her ex-boyfriend, this novel shows how far a family will go to protect the ones they love. The graphic novel pages after every few chapters added an interesting element to the story, as the reader could draw parallels between what Daniel, as a father, was facing and Dante's perception of Hell. A very good read.

Good bus book, no more than that.

In the past, I have found that Jodi Picoult delivers an excellent story with lots of twists in a real page turner. And this one started out like that but ended up predictable and muddled. Fourteen year old Trixie Stone comes home from a party at a friend?s house to tell her dad that she was raped. What follows is a town that turns against the victim and believes the rapist. Or was he a rapist? What really happened? Did Trixie willingly participate in an oral sex game at the party and then say no to Jason the ex-boyfriend she still loves? Her parents are just as screwed up - one trying to hide from his past and the other is having an affair with her student. Are they any better than Jason? And I found the graphic novel inserts were just annoying to novel readers. They are so different that the shift from one to the other is jolting to the prose and I have read graphic novels in the past! There is a hidden message in each of the pictures that I find detracts from the plot. Picoult''s portrayal of a family in crisis, her trademark, starts out explosively but gets bogged down in details that just don''t stack up. The snowmobiles in Alaska are called snow machines by the author, for instance. Even her science is a bit off and dumbed down. But her audience isn''t that stupid!