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Starred Review. Some of Picoult's best storytelling distinguishes her twisting, metaphor-rich 13th novel (after Vanishing Acts) about parental vigilance gone haywire, inner demons and the emotional risks of relationships. Comic book artist Daniel Stone is like the character in his graphic novel with the same title as this book—once a violent youth and the only white boy in an Alaskan Inuit village, now a loving, stay-at-home dad in Bethel, Maine—traveling figuratively through Dante's circles of hell to save his 14-year-old teenage daughter, Trixie. After she accuses her ex-boyfriend of rape, Trixie—and Daniel, whose fierce father-love morphs to murderous rage toward her assailant—unravel in the aftermath of the allegation. At the same time, wife and mother Laura, a Dante scholar, tries to mend her and Daniel's marriage after ending her affair with one of her students. Picoult has collaborated with graphic artist Dustin Weaver to illustrate her deft, complex exploration of Daniel and his beast within, but the drawings, though well-done, distract from the powerful picture she has drawn with words. Laura and Daniel follow their runaway daughter to Alaska, at which point Picoult drives the story with the heavy-handed Dante metaphor—not the characters. Still, this story of a flawed family on the brink of destruction grips from start to finish.
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Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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There are no black and whites in Picoult's latest novel, except for the drawings that graphic artist Daniel Stone inks. Stone, a former bad boy who grew up among the Yup'ik Eskimos in Alaska, now lives a sedate life in Bethel, Maine, with his college-professor wife, Laura, and his 14-year-old daughter, Trixie. But the night Trixie's ex-boyfriend, Jason, rapes her at a party is the night Daniel's carefully ordered life falls apart. Daniel is forced to acknowledge that he's ignored the distance growing between him and his daughter and that his wife, a Dante scholar at a local college, is having an affair. After the rape, Trixie's classmates turn on her, and even her best friend, Zephyr, sides with Jason, a school hockey star whose future seems bright. When Trixie claims she was drugged and the evidence backs her up, the tide turns against Jason, and another tragedy sends Trixie fleeing Maine for her father's childhood home of Alaska, forcing Daniel to confront the demons he'd hoped he'd left in the past. Picoult's sad, complex novel should appeal to the many readers who have enjoyed her previous works. Kristine Huntley
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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By TeensReadToo "Eat. Drink. Read. Be Merrier." (All Over the US & Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Tenth Circle: A Novel (Paperback)
Trixie Stone is the freshman girl that all other girls, even the upperclassman, envy. She's dating the hottest junior in the school, she's pretty, smart, and gets along with just about everybody. She has a seemingly perfect life.But that only lasts until she goes to a party that gets way out of hand. Her ex-boyfriend, who she wants back so badly, inflicts a horrible case of violence upon her. And now everyone would kill to be nothing like her. Trixie is one of the few characters that you can actually fall in love with throughout the course of the book. She is everything a teen girl wants to be, but then the reader has to have compassion for her because of what she goes through, and then you really do have to feel bad for her. This is a book that everyone should read, simply for the wide range of issues that it covers. A great read. Reviewed by: Taylor Rector
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Kinda boring,
By Angela (Vancouver, BC, CANADA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Tenth Circle: A Novel (Paperback)
I absolutely loved My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult, but this one was a little boring. I did finish the book because I wanted to know what happened in the end, but I wouldn't recommend this book. I never felt the pull like I did with My Sister's Keeper.
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This review is from: The Tenth Circle: A Novel (Paperback)
This is only the second book I read by Jodie Picoult. The first one was "My Sister's Keeper" and I enjoyed it much much more. In "The Tenth Circle" there are enough twists and turns to keep the reader alert, however I simply found it to be less captivating.The story unfolds when Trixie, Daniel's adolescent daughter, accuses Jason, her ex-sweetheart, to have raped her. This of course leads not only to the search of the truth by all involved, including the police, it also triggers off Daniel's past, of which he was always very secretive. Meanwhile Laura, his wife and Trixie's Mum, is shattered by the events too and realises, along with Daniel, that Trixie had and has so many issues none of them ever suspected or imagined. Both parents stand by their daughter trying to figure out what to do, how to help her. Also, their own personal lives become more and more interwoven and the plot thickens as a consequence. The disturbing subject of rape, the intricay of a teenager's mind, her fragility and the consequences resulting from choices made by parents and children alike, are at the core of this book. There are some cartoon strips between some of the chapters, which I did not particularly appreciate because I found them monotonous and distracting, however the prose of this book is good, even though I found some of the events a bit extreme and far-fetched. Therefore I don't think that it deserves more than a low-to-average mark. Being J. Picoult a prolific author, however, and especially because I have appreciated some of her previous work, I shall not be put off by this particular book and have another one which I'll start soon, "Perfect Match".
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