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Salem Falls | 
 enlarge | Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Paperbacks
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Rating:  69 reviews
Sales Rank: 5758
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 528
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Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 4.9 x 1.4
ISBN: 0340835532
EAN: 9780340835531
ASIN: 0340835532
Publication Date: November 7, 2005
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 Entertainment June 13, 2008
LindyLouMac (Italy)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This being the sixth novel I have read by Jodi Picoult I have become very familiar with her chosen format for a novel, in which lawyers and moral dilemmas feature strongly. It may be that her novels are a little predictable but the format works and I enjoy reading them. After all that is what it's all about, entertainment.
Salem Falls is no exception, this time the themes are rape and witchcraft. The protagonist Jack St Bride has the unfortunate experience of not once but twice being accused of rape after becoming the object of teenage girls' fantasies. The first time it happened there was no escape as the tension between truth and fiction drove events along. As a man having wrongly served a prison sentence he arrives in Salem Falls and tries to make a new life for himself with the help of Adie Peabody. He is noticed by a group of teenage girls in Salem who are experimenting in Wicca, a witchcraft religion. He has a very strong effect on Gillian Duncan a very troubled teenager who is their ring-leader and it is her he is wrongly accused of raping. This time though he has more support and one hopes that truth will win the day. Read the book to find out though, in fact the ending left me feeling very sorry for Gillian with Amos Duncan as her more than controlling father!
Another fab, engrossing novel from Jodi Picoult May 7, 2008
L. H. Healy (Hertfordshire, UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
An interesting take on what it's like to be an outsider starting afresh in a new, small town, trying to escape an unhappy recent past, and what happens when that past becomes public knowledge, and seems to be happening all over again.
Salem Falls is very enjoyable and an engrossing read, I have read a few of Jodi Picoult's novels now and find them all enjoyable, and difficult to put down once started! I like the way that the author deals with the present time, and also intersperses chapters of past events so we start to gradually build up a fuller picture of some of the main characters, a technique which she uses in other novels too.
I like the way that the gentle, loving relationship is developed between Jack St Bride and Addie. The writer tackles rape, abuse and even witchcraft in this work.
A talented author writing accessibly about often very difficult and/or topical issues.
Picoult excels again April 9, 2008
Lizbet (Milton Keynes)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Excellent, as I knew it would be, but disturbing. The main character, Jack, is released from prison having served an 8 month sentence for supposedly raping a schoolgirl (he didn't). He goes to Salem Falls, just wanting to blend in and lead a simple life. He finds work in a diner, and falls in love with its manager, Addie, who is still suffering from the loss of her child many years ago. They find some happiness, but the townspeople begin to find out Jack's history and decide they want him to leave the town. Jack is beaten up, and then he is (wrongly) accused of raping a schoolgirl. This book also delves into witchcraft, and child abuse - lots of things to make you think. It holds your interest throughout, and as always, the tension is palpable when the jury delivers its verdict. I also admire the way Picoult describes love.
 So disappointing! March 23, 2008
J. Huntington (United Kingdom)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have really enjoyed all the Jodi Picoult novels I've read so far, but this one was very disappointing. In the past I've loved the way she takes an "issue" (date rape for example) and puts it in the context of a thought-provoking and gripping story-line. However, too much of this was unbelievable, from the underage sex trial, to his experiences in prison, getting a job at the diner, the witchcraft. I felt I was being expected to swallow too much that was simply incredible and accordingly failed to empathise with the characters. Read her other books, not this one!
un-put-downable February 12, 2008
Shouna Falconer (U.K.)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is the only J.P. book I have read ,and it makes me want to read more. It's engrossing from start to finish. Unlike one of the other reviewers, I didn't guess the real truth behind one of the pieces of evidence and so the ending carried the intended shock.
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