19 Minutes

I decided to stick with Jodi Picoult and read 19 Minutes.  I have to say, I have enjoyed the other two Jodi Picoult books I have read but this is by far my favorite one so far.

Normally I am not a fan of books that are written from multiple voices. Especially when the voices aren’t divided by chapters like My Sister’s Keeper was, but in this particular case I thought the fact that the perspective or voice the story was being told in continually changed was very fitting.

This book is about a high school shot which is a very chaotic incident and its effects are immeasurable. If this book had been written from one character’s perspective I don’t think I would have enjoyed it. To me this was a very well rounded story because there wasn’t a perspective that was omitted which deepened the impact of the story.

I also enjoyed that this wasn’t necessarily a book about a school shooting, but rather it was a look at the psychology behind why it might happen.

I would definitely recommend this book to anyone and actually have been recommending it to everyone I talk to. If you haven’t read it you should do so right away, I don’t think you’ll be sorry.