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| Title | : | Leaving Time (Leaving Time #1) |
| Author | : | Jodi Picoult |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 398 pages |
| Published | : | October 14th 2014 by Ballantine Books |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Mystery. Audiobook |
Jodi Picoult
Hardcover | Pages: 398 pages Rating: 3.97 | 132680 Users | 15104 Reviews
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For more than a decade, Jenna Metcalf has never stopped thinking about her mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared in the wake of a tragic accident. Refusing to believe she was abandoned, Jenna searches for her mother regularly online and pores over the pages of Alice’s old journals. A scientist who studied grief among elephants, Alice wrote mostly of her research among the animals she loved, yet Jenna hopes the entries will provide a clue to her mother’s whereabouts.As Jenna’s memories dovetail with the events in her mother’s journals, the story races to a mesmerizing finish.
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| Original Title: | Leaving Time |
| ISBN: | 0345544927 (ISBN13: 9780345544926) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Leaving Time #1 |
| Setting: | New Hampshire(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2014) |
Rating Of Books Leaving Time (Leaving Time #1)
Ratings: 3.97 From 132680 Users | 15104 ReviewsRate Of Books Leaving Time (Leaving Time #1)
It does not matter who you are or what kind of personal relationship youve forged with an elephant: Come between her and her calf, and she will kill you."Having read Larger Than Life, one of the prequels to this novel (the other being Where There's Smoke), I thought that I was prepared for what Jodi Picoult was going to present me with in this, her twenty-second novel, but boy was I wrong! In fact, she totally blew me out of the water with this one. Told in two parts from the POVs of Jenna,If I were an elephant I'd trumpet Leaving Time. Classic Picoult, Leaving Time is the story of a teen searching for her missing mother. Using her now familiar and equally comfortable format of multi-charachter point of view each character provides a piece to the puzzle of what lead to Alice's disappearance from the New England Elephant Sanctuary soon after a co-worker is trampled to death. The cast, Jenna, the daughter, Alice, the mother, Virgil, a cop, and Serenity, a psychic, all play their
I've averaged my rating: all things elephant related are 5-stars, with the people stuff being 3-stars. Picoult uses her trademark multiple points of view to good effect in this novel, which has more heart than some of her recent novels. If you're not enthralled with elephants the way I am, you probably won't feel the emotional attachment to this novel that I did, beginning with the Alice's first section, written by the scientist doing field research on elephant memory and their grieving process.
Me listening to the final hour of the audio book:Huh? Wait. What? No way! Hmmmm... OK... now it is all making sense... wow....We are first introduced to the three female narrators, each in her own voice: 13 year old Jenna; her mother Alice, who ten years ago checked herself out of a hospital never to be seen again; and the down-on-her-luck psychic, Serenity, who Jenna hires to help find Alice. They have alternating turns at advancing the story. I liked Alice's chapters least of all, and there
As much as I admire Jodi, I have to say I agree with you here. Absolute mess.
I recognise Jodi Piccoult is a fantastic and prolific author, and have enjoyed a couple of her books before now. This novel did not attach to me in any engaging way at all, this is a very true 2 star rating. The subject matter, elephants and the issues of psychic powers an afterlife, have never been of interest for me but I thought I'd like it nonetheless, having been leant it by my best friend. I was neutral throughout, not loving, not hating. Virgil was my favourite character, and Jenna also.
I wish I had read your review before I spent my time reading this big pile of elephant poop. A hot mess is such an apt description.
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