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Second Glance | 
 enlarge | Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
Category: Book
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 472
Media: Paperback
Pages: 512
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.1 x 1.4
ISBN: 0340897260
EAN: 9780340897263
ASIN: 0340897260
Publication Date: August 21, 2008
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 Her best yet October 6, 2008
Enn Dee (Scotland)
This is the first Picoult that I have enjoyed from start to finish in a while. I do get slightly annoyed when she introduces so many characters at once, but once into the story it was a really good read. Thoroghly recommended!
 Totally different & totally brilliant September 15, 2008
T. Andrews (leeds)
Picoults says in the notes of the book that this is her favourite book so far & I have to say I agree - This book is a huge leap away from Picoults usual scenario of family/court drama, which I have always enjoyed, but this is by far her best.
The story centers around 1 guy who after losing the love of his life in a car accident spends time searching for her ghost, he goes on a journey of personal discovery & somehow his life becomes entangled with Lia - a woman who died in 1932.
Part of the story is told from Lias point of view & that part is particularly interesting. I certainly did not find it difficult to get into, confusing, or difficult to understand the eugenetics as other have mentioned. It was a fantastic & interesting read. A must read for all Picoult fans.
A fantastic read September 13, 2008
J. Lewis (uk)
As other reviewers have noted I found this book diffficult to get into at first. However I perservered and was rewarded. A fantastic story that really comes to life during Part Two. A fantastic story that gripped me and also taught me about a part of American history I never realised had happened. Up there with Jodi's classics My sister's keeper and Nineteen minutes. Buy this book!
Another engrossing winner from Picoult September 8, 2008
L. H. Healy (Hertfordshire, UK)
Have now read a few of Jodi Picoult's books and really enjoy them.
Here, as always, there is an abundance of interesting characters and predicaments, with some serious and fascinating themes at the heart of this novel. What seems to begin as a story with hints of the supernatural in the town of Comtosook, grows to take in the plight of some Native American people, the Abenaki and the proposed redevelopment of alleged burial grounds, together with the theories and experiments of Eugenics in 1920's Vermont which the author has herself researched and drawn upon within the middle section of the book. There are some compelling characters, including Ethan, the young boy who cannot venture outside until darkness falls because of his skin condition; his Uncle Ross, who despite several attempts to end his life seems indestructible; the detective, Eli Rochert and his trust canine sidekick Watson, who adds a little humour to the adventures; Gray Wolf, and Cecilia and Spencer Pike, involved deeply in the times when Eugenics was being proposed and practised, and also there in the current-day section of the story too, as many of the strands and characters from the past and present sections of the story begin to interweave.
Picoult skillfully weaves together the various threads and characters of this tale and presents us with some challenging ideas, and yet at the heart as always are relationships, human struggles and love. It is very rewarding, and a little magical, how the events are resolved at the conclusion of the story. Very enjoyable to read.
Second Glance September 1, 2008
April L Masson
This is the first book I have read from the Author and loved it. There are a lot of characters but I soon became so involved with all their lives, I could not stop reading just to find out what happen next. The slightly supernatural "life after death" story line just hooked me from the start. Her writing is so perceptive and her phasing is so descriptive that I can't wait to read the another one of hers.
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