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Language : English
ISBN-10 : 0553841343
ISBN-13 : 978-0553841343
Item Weight : 539 g
Dimensions : 15.57 x 2.74 x 23.29 cm

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Marisa Brewerton

great read!

Reviewed in Canada on February 15, 2021

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I'm more of a biography/autobiography reader and honestly haven't read a novel in years. This was a recommendation and I loved it! The ending took a different turn than what I initially was expecting until I kept getting closer to the end and starting thinking what else could actually be going on. Would highly recommend!

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Sheila Longman

Leaving Time

Reviewed in Canada on October 26, 2014

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I have read all of Jodi Picoult's books and this one took me a bit longer to get into it. It is about a young girl, Jenna, who's parents divorced and her mom vanished. Her dad ended up in an institute so Jenna was living with her grandma. She decided she wanted to find her mom and enlisted the help of a PI and a physic. Her parents were scientists who were very involved in rehabing elephants, so when her mom, Alice, was speaking in the book it became quite technical and there were some parts I found hard to follow. Other than that, the story holds your interest and the outcome will surprise you.

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Kourtney Thompson

Best. Book. Ever

Reviewed in Canada on March 4, 2019

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This is my favourite book of all time. I got a free preview on my phone and I became so involved that I had to purchase it. Then I found there was short stories that came before it. It's just amazing. Best book I've ever read.

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Melissa

Heartbreaking and captivating!

Reviewed in Canada on March 26, 2018

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As always, Jodi Picoult writes from a perspective that leaves you wanting more, questioning your own thoughts and understanding of a particular subject, and challenging your current thought process. This book was no exception. Her books allow you, through her amazing knack for detail, to escape into an unknown world as you read. Highly recommend this book!

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WUTANGWAW

Picoult doesn't disappoint!

Reviewed in Canada on January 19, 2015

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I decided to buy this book despite people claiming this wasn't Picoult best novel and i actually really liked it!
I read it really quickly, i couldn't wait to find out the ending. It blew me away :)

I'm giving it 41/2 stars for three reasons:

- Typo on the first page / first sentence "...a place that sick and old elephants would travel TO TO die."
- Alice's part were a little long to get through, but the info on the elephant was indeed interesting
- A little disappointed that their is no mention of Jim Laurita, founder of Hope Elephants in Maine, who died a few years ago from being trampled to death. I'm guessing the book was already being printed as it happened...? Still a weird coincidence

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Christine A.

NEVER a Disappointment with Jodi Picoult

Reviewed in Canada on November 11, 2014

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My favorite author!! This is another amazing Jodi novel that manages to grab you in the first few pages, carry through a great story - only to twist the ending and surprise the reader! I love this about her books and find myself sitting afterward wondering how her mind works to come up with such wonderful 'switches' in the story. Fabulous!
I won't tell the story as some reviewers like to do - just suffice to say this is another of "never disappoints' books that Ms. Picoult writes for her fans.
I am eagerly awaiting her next one - but it's probably a year or so away.
Share this book for a Christmas gift - the receiver will thank you!!!

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Jayne

Excellent book! Highly recommend!

Reviewed in Canada on August 9, 2019

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I absolutely loved this book! Great story, and characters you come to love, along with many interesting facts about elephants. Big twist at the end was a bonus!

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Lisa A. Theriault

Interesting - Learned Something New

Reviewed in Canada on October 5, 2019

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I picked up the book during a three day power outage and was glad I did. The book is interesting and entertaining with characters you’ll remember for a long time to come. There’s an important message in this book about our humanity, the ripple effects of our choices, and how much can be gained in life when we embrace mystery.

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Audrey Haylins

Ugh! Bring back the real Jodie Picoult!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 9, 2019

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When I buy a Jodie Picoult book I expect a beautifully told, true-to-life human drama about real people dealing with life’s curveballs. I expect a narrative that’s compelling in a ‘this could happen to anyone’ way and finely drawn characters that elicit empathy and affection. What Picoult serves up here, though, is a barely credible piece of fiction ... with a herd of elephants trampling all over it.

The story has potential: A 13 year-old’s search for the mother who vanished 10 years ago after a tragic incident at the family elephant sanctuary. So far so good. But ... Jenna’s mum, Alice, was a renowned elephant expert and, for some reason, Picoult sees fit to indulge in lengthy, pseudo scientific tracts about elephant behavior and memory. These are interspersed in the narrative and drove me nuts! Every time I started getting sucked into the story and characters, off we’d go on another elephant safari. This killed the momentum time and time again, and I ended up skim reading whole chapters just to get back to the plot. Okay, so elephants may indeed be fascinating creatures, but seriously, why would you want to combine fact and fiction like this? It’s like mixing oil and water: it just doesn’t work!

To add to my frustration, there were things about young Jenna that just didn’t ring true. I mean, how many people can remember anything other than vague snapshots from their early childhood? Jenna, amazingly, who must be one of the most precocious 13 year olds I’ve ever come across, fictional or otherwise, can recall whole conversations between her mother and father! Now, it may well be the case, that a lot of these gaps get patched up in the ‘incredible twist’ at the end of the book. But, I’m afraid I didn’t hang around to find out, having relinquished all hope of a decent read about half-way through.

Ms Picoult needs to take a step back and remind herself why she’s loved by millions of readers worldwide. It’s certainly not for this self-indulgent twaddle.

Thanks for reading my review. I hope you found it helpful. You can find more candid book reviews my profile page.

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Mrs. N. M. L. Kerr-smiley

Great ending if you last that long

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 21, 2015

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Oh dear. I have always been a fan of this author but in recent years become rather bored of her endless pages of research being regurgitated to show how much work she's done. This book is no exception. I only managed this to the end as we have recently returned from safari in Africa and knew a little about Elephants which helped our interest levels somewhat. However even this took it too far and I felt I was reading an elephant research text book.

The story itself started well; a missing person mystery which held attention with likeable cliched characters - failed retired detective; failed psychic, and sad daughter looking for answers as to what happened to her missing mother.

The elephant research dragged the story along to far too long a book and the ending, whilst a shock and unexpected, left far too many questions.

Also - can we really truly believe that the original investigation team didn't find the research book in the tree? The finger nail in the clothing? The hair on the dead body???

Do not read on (please) if you have not read it yet SPOILER ALERT COMING

I did not expect the clever ending. Sixth sense meets novel but ... She died aged three so how is she now a teenager? How did she go to school? How did her living father hit her and give her a black eye? We're so many people dead - like the police officer who initially told her that the detective had died? A ghost pathologist did a DNA test? Very unlucky characters that so many connected to the story had died - the child, mothers lover, his wife, his mother in law, various police officers, granny, lab technician, etc. all very far fetched for a writer of this calibre.

Good story, too many holes, too much about elephants. Please can Jodi P return to the good yarns she used to write?

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Chris

A Different Course

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 22, 2020

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Not wanting to give the plot away, I'll only say that it would have been easy for the author to make this novel a "thriller". I think this could have been carried out by making the detective the principal character. It was courageous not to do this and it certainly paid off. Very sad in parts concerning the human characters and the elephants.

I found the book rather slow in places but my patience was well compensated by the ending.

I thought the factual parts about elephants was moving, hart warming and distressing in equal measure.
I would recommend this novel.

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Tamsett

An Issue Book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 9, 2019

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A showcase for the author's elephant research - i.e. reading other people's papers on elephants. Such a disappointment when this author can write so beautifully about humans. The is a very clumsy stitch-together story where unfortunately, because they are secondary puppets to the points the author is making (over and over again) the characters are not believable. When I got to the - cop out - twist at the end I went back to see if it made a difference to how I read them, but it just made the whole thing even more annoying. At the end I felt taken for a ride - and not by an elephant. What a shame.

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Vee

The ending truly astonished me

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 23, 2020

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I can't remember when I was last so surprised by the end of a book! I gasped out loud. The ending alone was worth five stars.
I agree with some other reviewers that the book was slightly over-long and could have done with a good edit: one grew a bit bored of Jenna's repetitive imaginings about what having a mother might have been like (she never stopped to think that her mother might have been unpleasant to live with!) However, that said, this is a remarkable book and an excellent read. Highly recommended.

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