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The Storyteller

Jodi Picoult

4.28 AVERAGE

hollydaze71's review against another edition

5.0

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

erinpopstar's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

mthompson22's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Mesmerizing. This book kept me engaged the whole way. I loved the format of the book, though my brain had difficulty letting go of it’s need to stop reading only if it’s neatly at the end of a chapter. This book does a great job of discussing difficult topics and moral dilemmas in a way that is also entertaining- not in the typical dry textbook way or trying to force the dissection of everything, sometimes a red light is just a red light folks. But it if you look deeper, you come away with more than you first believed. Would definitely recommend!

veronicaaalynn's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

mmkool's review against another edition

4.0

Wow. I had this book on hold for so long at the library that I forgot what it's about. This is the obsessive Jodi Picoult reading that I remember from her earlier books. Good stuff

allie_h's review against another edition

3.0

There was a lot about this book that I loved. The long sections in which Josef and Minka were the narrators were extremely compelling, especially Minka's section. It was really the storytelling in Minka's part where I found I couldn't really put the book down. It is what drove me to keep reading and made me feel that I needed to see how the book ended.

I was pretty annoyed by Sage's character a lot of the time, though. She seemed pretty unreliable as a narrator. The whole time she seemed to be in the midst of a descent into madness. The end was the worst. The end of the book, for me, was Sage's most disappointing moment, and her weakest, as well. Also a lot of details were just kind of - ick. Sage's sister's names: Saffron and Pepper. The dread-locked coffee guy who speaks only in haiku.