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Penguin Random House
464 pages
2/22/23-6/15/2023
I was immediately drawn into story from beginning until half way through it began to drag on longer than necessary. Then, it became disjointed unlike the beginning of the book. There are many controversial topics and story lines which are somehow all converging. There are two authors which I think might explain the feeling of incongruity. It seems that a lot of information that each of the authors wanted to include wasn’t distributed evenly through the novel.
As a result, the story line is repeated by different POV with additional background information providing explanations making the story feel redundant.
I have some mixed feelings and would rate 3.5 but averaging up as I think the premise and intention were there but could have been edited to make it feel less “clunky”. It didn’t seem to have the effortless flow of some of Picoult’s books. It took me longer to read this book than any of her other novels. There is an excessive amount of “extra” information that normally adds to the story but with two authors adding a little “extra” to their part of the story made it drag on.
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