After finishing New Moon, I had to choose another book. I decided to read Nineteen Minutes, by Jodie Picoult. When I heard that it was about a school shooting I thought it would be a good book to read because it would be suspenseful. I was expecting the book to be mostly about the “nineteen minute” school shooting and what happened during that time, and so far it hasn’t been like that. The shooting happened but it was in the book more after the fact, which to me was a little disappointing. Also there are a lot of different main character figures that the book switches back and forth between, telling that persons specific story. This would maybe have been better if the characters were kids who witnessed the shooting, but right now they all seem kind of random. It is confusing for me to read it this way and hard to always understand whom they are talking about. All the characters seem to be connected in some way but it isn’t very clear to me yet how they are. Since one of the main characters is a judge I think that the book might have a court case about the shooting in it. I’m not sure if I’m going to keep reading this book because even though I would probably enjoy it I feel like I have already read books just like it. Some of them even by the same author, Jodie Picoult, like The Pact and My Sisters Keeper. I know they probably wouldn’t be that much alike in the end, but I think I might switch to a book I will enjoy more. Ill just have to wait and see!
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