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A review by bookishtiff
Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult
3.0
Never have I been more conflicted about a book than I have with this one. Salem Falls follows multiple characters, too many in my opinion. I felt like a couple of the point of views weren't needed. I really didn't see us needing a whole point of view for each lawyer, police officer, and Thomas. Not going to lie the characters were a bit hard for me to differentiate between. The book goes back and forth in time along with the switching points of view. We see Jack living his life before and during his prison sentence. Then we see him after his sentence trying to create a life for himself.
All the characters in the book have some issues. I don't trust any of them and feel like they all could get some good help by seeing a mental health professional. One of our characters who is the love interest for Jack, Addie keeps pretending her daughter is still alive and will say out loud stuff as if her daughter was actually there and was able to still get under her feet while she takes orders or that she could still eat the food she puts out for her daily. Instead of anyone offering this poor woman help, they call her crazy behind her back. She is a woman in pain and needs some help desperately. Gillian needs some major help, and that girl never gets it in this book.
This book is almost as old as me, which is crazy to think about, but the book is still relevant to today's society. Rape is still something that happens, and people get wrongly convicted, and then we have people who never are committed for their crimes. I feel like this book opens a whole thing for discussion.
I felt like a lot of things in this book conveniently happened in order to make the plot move forward. Some of it felt too convenient and took the realism away for me. Like how Gillian needed the powder but couldn't get it at the Wicca shop but conveniently her dad's company just so happened to be using it to make medicine and she was easily able to steal some. I really don't think Wicca needed to be even mentioned in this book. I really didn't hold a true purpose in the book. I'm not sure if the author was trying to see Wicca in a bad light or if she was just using it as a reason for the things those young girls did.
The ending in this book really makes you think, and nothing feels resolved for me. I didn't see the true ending happening, but I wish we saw the real monster brought to light and justice.
All the characters in the book have some issues. I don't trust any of them and feel like they all could get some good help by seeing a mental health professional. One of our characters who is the love interest for Jack, Addie keeps pretending her daughter is still alive and will say out loud stuff as if her daughter was actually there and was able to still get under her feet while she takes orders or that she could still eat the food she puts out for her daily. Instead of anyone offering this poor woman help, they call her crazy behind her back. She is a woman in pain and needs some help desperately. Gillian needs some major help, and that girl never gets it in this book.
This book is almost as old as me, which is crazy to think about, but the book is still relevant to today's society. Rape is still something that happens, and people get wrongly convicted, and then we have people who never are committed for their crimes. I feel like this book opens a whole thing for discussion.
I felt like a lot of things in this book conveniently happened in order to make the plot move forward. Some of it felt too convenient and took the realism away for me. Like how Gillian needed the powder but couldn't get it at the Wicca shop but conveniently her dad's company just so happened to be using it to make medicine and she was easily able to steal some. I really don't think Wicca needed to be even mentioned in this book. I really didn't hold a true purpose in the book. I'm not sure if the author was trying to see Wicca in a bad light or if she was just using it as a reason for the things those young girls did.
The ending in this book really makes you think, and nothing feels resolved for me. I didn't see the true ending happening, but I wish we saw the real monster brought to light and justice.