Title: Ugh.....!!!!!
Product review: Thankfully Songs of the Humpback Whale was NOT my first reading of Picoult.......had it been, I would have never read Plain Truth and Keeping Faith, which kept me spellbound. I had also read a couple of her other books, which I found tedious, but this one I am only reading to the end, because I refuse to lay any book aside without finishing it.I read fiction strictly for relaxation and recreation, and this book fails me in both areas. I don't mind a moderate amount of "flash back" but this book has the reader flipping as if on a trampoline.....many times not knowing who the characters are or WHERE they are. I would be hard put at any given time to recite the basic story line to someone.I never thought I would "pan" a book, but I'm afraid I just have :-( I have an author friend, who says she welcomes bad reviews as well as good ones, so I hope Ms Picoult feels the same.Charlie Hall, editor of Just a Word
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