Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Picoult - ★★★.¾

AUTHOR: Jodi Picoult
GENRE: Contemporary Fiction
PUBLICATION DATE: March 5, 2007
RATING: 3.75 stars.

Has it ever happened that you have been spellbound by a book, only to be terribly let down by its ending? 

I took up this Jodi Picoult with a lot of expectations, and of the almost 600 pages, I really enjoyed the first 570! Not a bit of reduction in pace and an optimum interest level maintained by the parallel past-present storyline. 

But the last chapter seemed in such a hurry to bring everything to a satisfactory close! It was like an art film had turned into a Bollywood potboiler. 

I mean, there are PLOT twists, and there are plot TWISTS! This was definitely in the second category. 

Anyone else who has read this and shared a similar feeling? I am still making up my mind about what rating to give the book.

PS: This is the second time this is happening to me with a Jodi Picoult book, the first being the popular "My Sister's Keeper".

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