Jodi Picoult bundle: Perfect Match & Nineteen Minutes & Second Glance

by Jodi Picoult

Three bestselling Jodi Picoult novels at one great price. NINETEEN MINUTES is the startling and poignant story of the aftermath of a tragic high school shooting. As the story unfolds, layer after layer is peeled back to reveal some hard-hitting questions about the nature of justice, the balance of power and what it means to be different. Nineteen Minutes is a riveting, thought-provoking tale with a jaw-dropping finale. PERFECT MATCH is a soulful and intimate novel that paints an indelible portrait of a family in anguish. Jodi Picoult weaves a heart-wrenching story which explores the lengths to which a mother will go to protect her child. Part thriller, part courtroom drama and part family portrait, this disturbing novel paints a portrait of a family torn apart, and the drama of its riveting courtroom conclusion maintains the suspense until the final verdict is handed down. SECOND GLANCE is an intricate and volatile tale of love and suspense in which an unsolved, decades old murder haunts a small New England town. In this eerie and engrossing work, Picoult examines why we tend to think of science as objective, when it is always at the mercy of those who interpret it. Is fate any more reliable than coincidence? And is love any less real just because it has no scale of measurement? Jodi Picoult, who has fifteen novels and three children to her credit, was born and raised on Long Island. She received a doctorate in creative writing from Princeton and a master's degree in education from Harvard.

Kindle Edition

First published December 20, 2011

About the author

Jodi Picoult is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-eight novels, including Wish You Were Here, Small Great Things, Leaving Time, and My Sister’s Keeper, and, with daughter Samantha van Leer, two young adult novels, Between the Lines and Off the Page. Picoult lives in New Hampshire.

MAD HONEY, her new novel co-authored with Jennifer Finney Boylan, is available in hardcover, ebook, and audio on October 4, 2022.

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Reviews

[Mango · Rating 5 out of 5]

As with almost all of Jodi Pucoult’s novels , she has an amazing gift of presenting a story that gives you so much insight to thoughts and feelings about many issues. She dedicates so much time to researching that what she writes is authentic. Fantastic!

[Emma Cucchi · Rating 4 out of 5]

In the book Nineteen Minutes it is about a teenage boy named Peter who was struggling mentally so he caused a school shooting. In the shooting he killed multiple students and a teacher. Peter was constantly bullied and he had very few friends throughout his childhood and high school experience. "Every kid in this school played a role: joke, brain, beauty, freak. All Peter had done was what they all secretly dreamed of: be someone, even for just nineteen minutes, who nobody else was allowed to judge." (Picoult 448). This quote shows how he suffered from being alone and he finally couldn't take it anymore. He wasn't trying to kill anyone, only himself, but he claims people got in the way at that's why he shoot them. As Peter's trial becomes closer and closer his lawyer is slowly unfolding all these facts about Peter and the truth. Josie Cormier was once Peter's friend at the time in Elementary school but then she stopped being his friend. Later in high school Peter liked Josie had a boyfriend named Matt. Matt was killed in the school shooting and everyone thinks Peter did it. Josie was at the school shooting and saw everything that happened. Josie is a witness but claims she doesn't remember anything until she does. At the very end of the book Josie finally tells the truth and makes a huge plot twist. However, Peter's trial didn't end the way he wanted, he was able to tell everyone why he did it and share his side of the story. "Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young [...] but I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up." (Picoult 423). This quote shows how many in the world make mistakes and how powerful story.

In the book Nineteen minutes I really liked how it was a court case because it kept me intrigued. Since you don't know what happens to Peter till the end of the book I constantly wanted to read it because I wanted to know what happened. I also like how it included some romance throughout the book. Something I didn't like was how intense the book was because it made me emotional especially towards the end. Since you don't find out what happens to Peter till the very end of the book I didn't love that we had to wait that long because every chapter was closer to finding the truth but it made me very antsy and a little angry in a good way.

Overall the book is very interesting and powerful, I would definitely recommend it. However since the book is very intense I recommend it to high school students and adults. No one under the age of 14 should read this book due to the severe violence in it. I think the book highlights an important topic, a school shooting, the author did a great job of writing the story. If you like an emotional and powerful story with a little bit of romance, some bitter-sweet moments, and few moments of friendship then I recommend reading Nineteen Minutes.

[Lisa Baker · Rating 1 out of 5]

I really wanted to love this book, first one I’ve read by this author but I thought it was terrible. Just going On about irrelevant detail, I’ve had to put it down 60% through, just drivel. Not for me