Advantages: Excellent characters and story Disadvantages: None
I was browsing in the library and came across The Pact by Jodie Picoult, and read the back and was intrigued so I got it out, and I?m really glad I did as I really enjoyed it.
The book starts setting the scene with the Gold and Harte parents meeting up for a Chinese as they have done for years and then going home to their next door houses and each set getting calls late at night advising them their child is in hospital. They rush to the hospital and the Gold?s discover their daughter Emily is dead, and the Harte?s that their son Chris is injured but OK. Emily has been shot and Chris tells the police that it was a double suicide pact but he fainted when Emily shot herself. The police officer doesn?t think this adds up and that Chris killed her and he ends up charged for her murder.
The story goes back and forth from the present ...
Advantages: Great descriptions of the times, Australia Disadvantages: None
The Secret River
London 1806 - William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until William makes a mistake, a bad mistake for which he and his family are made to pay dearly. His sentence: to be transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It is the book of the month at our book club and is probably not a book I would have chosen for myself but is an extremely interesting portrail into life for people in that age and of the two countries.
This story is basically in two parts, Will's London life and then his Australian life. The two are most definitely linked to each other but in terms of Will's and Sal's feelings and adventures they are worlds apart, or you could say continents apart. The story ...
Advantages: Well developed characters and relationships Disadvantages: none really
I have read one of Jodi Picoult's books before and enjoyed it so while browsing in the library I saw this one and thought I'd give it a go.
The book is based in a small town, Wheelock, in America where many years before a clan had moved over from Scotland and built a replica village. Cameron Macdonald is "head of the clan" and the police chief for the town and he lives with his wife Allie. Jamie MacDonald is a cousin of Cameron's and his wife Maggie is terminally ill. When she decides that she wants Jamie to kill her then they travel to Wheelock to do it and Jamie hands himself in to his cousin.
Cameron sees it as black and white and that Jamie is guilty of murder and he arrests him and sends him for trial. Cameron's wife Allie however can see the grey area, as she loves her husband more than life itself and puts herself in his ...
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