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A review by cobycoyle
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
3.0
I think it’s absolutely important to not shy away from the topic of school shootings, as someone who works at a school.
Not sure this was handled how it should be though. I understand Peter was bullied to a horrendous degree, and I understand that is Picoult trying to get inside the mind of someone that commits an act like that…but I feel she fell a little short. We can only empathize with someone who shot and wounded or killed other children (and some of them completely blameless) and I feel like she was trying to get us to root for Peter, when flat out we just shouldn’t have been.
The twist at the end…I can’t determine how I feel about it to be honest.
Also, so many POVs. Was the prosecutor’s really necessary? Peter’s dad, whose POV’s were so frickin boring because of his economics of happiness crap?
Not sure this was handled how it should be though. I understand Peter was bullied to a horrendous degree, and I understand that is Picoult trying to get inside the mind of someone that commits an act like that…but I feel she fell a little short. We can only empathize with someone who shot and wounded or killed other children (and some of them completely blameless) and I feel like she was trying to get us to root for Peter, when flat out we just shouldn’t have been.
The twist at the end…I can’t determine how I feel about it to be honest.
Also, so many POVs. Was the prosecutor’s really necessary? Peter’s dad, whose POV’s were so frickin boring because of his economics of happiness crap?