Title: Insulting to the reader
Review: When we readers begin a book, we expect the author to put the main character in at least one difficult situation and work her way out. The ending of this book is a cop-out. Picoult took the easy way out and lost some readers' respect and readership. That was the last book of hers I ever read. The term for this not-respected plot device Is "deus ex machina," which implies a lack of imagination on the author's part. Ms. Picoult apparently couldn't figure out a way for her protagonist to work her way through the plot's challenges via the protaganist's brains or sheer guts. Ms. Picoult could have and should have done better.This book reads like she had a deadline to meet, so she went for a quick, coincidental ending to the disservice and annoyance of some of her readers. Too bad. She seems to get her story ideas from the newspaper and then sensationalizes them.
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