tashabye 's review for:

Second Glance by Jodi Picoult

2.0

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My curiosity about this author has been satisfied, she is not for me. Too many characters and a character change with almost every paragraph (except for one full section devoted to a character) and all of these characters just so flat and flawed beyond my caring about them. I admit that initially I was hooked, that is why I'm giving this 2 stars. I love a good ghost story and initially it seemed like it might deliver but it got pretty silly, pretty quickly. Predictable, (many) flat characters, and just plain weird interactions between them, I ended up putting this one down with about 100 pages left to go and it's going back to the library. Her one character constantly used these really obscure, big words that she would find in a dictionary, it was annoying bc no one that I've ever does this let alone remember these words and store them for use in so many coincidentally appropriate situations, ugh, it drove me nuts! I hear this is one of her worst books but I'm not going to be trying anymore of ther stuff, one is enough.

Honestly, I've considered giving this a 1 star but bc I was sitting by a beach and a pool for most of this reading, I have to wonder if it was better received by me bc of the atmosphere.