"Fourteen-year-old Trixie Stone has felt like a ghost for fourteen days, seven hours and thirty-six minutes. Her over-protective father tried to shield her from life's perils - but even he had never imagined what could happen to her.

Comic book artist Daniel Stone thought he had put the pain and violence of his past behind him when he reinvented himself as a family man.

Could the boy who once made his daughter's face fill with light have drugged and raped her? Trixie says he did, and that is all it takes to make her father consider taking matters into his own hands. He would go to hell and back for her daughter's sake..."

I think this is the first Jodi Picoult book I have read (?), and I liked it a lot. It had issues with moral values, I felt like a traitor when I syphatized Jason. Nothing was black-and-white: All the main characters did something illegal or immoral.

I just hope that the games described in this book are not played at the parties my teenager goes to!

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

Katsotaan josko tämä kirja löytäisi seuraavan lukijan viikonlopun BC-kesäpäiviltä.

The book did find a new reader: I like Picoult, too. We actually made a swap at the summer convention (Kesäpäivät), Piiku - I took the Picoult book you had just read and you took the Picoult book I had just read. Thank you!

This was not the best of the Jodi Picoult books I've read, but it was very evenly good; there were no dull moments but the book wasn't a real page-turner either. Like Piiku, I noticed the fact that nobody was innocent, everybody lied to her/himself and others at some point of the story. That's what made the tenth circle of hell. Perhaps I would have got more out of the book if I had read Dante's Divine Comedy, but I'm really not interested in reading it...I rather read comics/graphic novels, which were also present here. I liked the cartoon pages and how they paralleled (is that a word???) the written story. I also managed to solve the secret message in the cartoons, but I won't tell it here and spoil the surprise. It's not that difficult to solve. :)

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

To the bookcrossing shelf.

I just heard cafe Hertta is closed for holidays/repairing/whatever. So I had to caught this book back. It'll be released to Hertta or somewhere else later.

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

This time I succeeded to release this book in the bookcrossing shelf of the cafe.

Nappasin tämän mukaan käydessäni Tampereella kahvilassa. Otan kirjan mukanani Norjaan. Täytyy pian lukaista kirja ja vapauttaa se sitten jonnekin päin Osloa.

First timeI have ever done this, so am not really sure what to fill in about where I "caught" this book. I got the book in Oslo from the last poster on this journal before she "released" it to the world. :-) It has ended in a small village, ironically enough, in the Arctic Circle outside of Harstad, Norway.

I am not sure if I liked the book or not. It was a good read. I liked how none of the characters were all-good or all-bad making it realistic. Yet. . .

I don't know. I didn't like the ending. In the end, I didn't really like Trixie. The author tried to redeem her, but I have a hard time "liking" her character after you know her for what she has really done. It is not that you can or should ever excuse a boy from raping a girl. I don't know if it is because I am the mother of a son, but I felt his fate was almost too tragic when you consider the lies she told.

I was definitely pulled into the story and sat up too late a few nights to read it, but in the end I don't know if I was really satisfied.