Leaving Time

For over a decade, Jenna Metcalf obsesses on her vanished mom Alice Jenna searches online, rereads journals of the scientist who studied grief among elephants Two unlikely allies are Serenity Jones, psychic for missing people who doubts her gift, and Virgil Stanhope, jaded PI who originally investigated cases of Alice and her colleague Hard questions and answers. Free Download [ Leaving Time ] by [ Jodi Picoult ] – kino-fada.fr Okay friends You know I m not one to write slam type reviews But there is just one way to describe this book I have never used this phrase before and I hope to never use it again But honesty is my highest priority here on Goodreads, and I have to say it This book was a HOT MESS Avoid this mess of a book, which was about elephants, psychics, and who knows what else, because I got to page 170 and threw the thing across the room I know there is supposed to be some sort of amazing twist endin Okay friends You know I m not one to write slam type reviews But there is just one way to describe this book I have never used this phrase before and I hope to never use it again But honesty is my highest priority here on Goodreads, and I have to say it This book was a HOT MESS Avoid this mess of a book, which was about elephants, psychics, and who knows what else, because I got to page 170 ...The most brilliant, moving, emotionally resonant novel I ve read in a long time Loved the elephants Loved the intrigue Once again, Jodi Picoult brings the magicThis newest Jodi Picoult left me a little dazed and confused Picoult used to be one of my sure bets for a great read and no one quite wrote like her This being said, I m not really sure what direction Picoult has been going recently Leaving Time was such a mixture of characters, stories and subplots that for me just didn t flow Maybe if I was an elephant fanatic I would of found itinteresting To me it was like putting a nonfiction learning experience into the middle of a novel Throw This newest Jodi Picoult left me a little dazed and confused Picoult used to be one of my sure bets for a great read and no one quite wrote like her This being said, I m not really sure what direction Picoult has been going recently Leaving Time was such a mixture of characters, stories and subplots that for me just didn t flow Maybe if I was an elephant fanatic I would of found itinteresting To me it was like putting a nonfiction learning experience into the middle of a novel Throw in a young girl looking for her mother who disappeared when she was a child, a psychic who has fallen from stardom and an ex cop who pre...I rarely read books about psychics, ghosts and the like But this was Jodi Picoult so I was always going to make an exception, as she is a favourite author As soon as this book arrived I put aside all others waiting here to read this One of the reasons I find her books interesting is she usually makes me think about an issue, and look at it fromthan one position Even when I do not agree with her stance on some subjects and I sometimes don t at least she makes me stop and think and co I rarely read books about psychics, ghosts and the like But this was Jodi Picoult so I was always going to make an exception, as she is a favourite author As soon as this book arrived I put aside all others waiting here to read this One of the reasons I find her books interesting is she usually makes me think about an issue, and look at it fromthan one position Even when I do not agree with her stance on some subjects and I sometimes don t at least she makes me stop and think and consider whether there is another way of looking at things That said, I m not sure that is the case with this novel Yet it still got me in and I raced through it at breakneck speed as I usually do one of her novels She has a knack of capturing my attention and keeping it so I have no choice but to ...This review is based on a galley, an unpublished version of this book We all have things that we may do over and over again but question why we do them Sometimes we just can t help it This is the case with me and Jodi Picoult We began our relationship when I read Salem Falls and was happy with the characterization and the twisty plot I read My Sister s Keeper I read a bunchAnd started to realize that she loves using courtroom scenes with a surprise twist Somewhere, later in Jodi This review is based on a galley, an unpublished version of this book We all have things that we may do over and over again but question why we do them Sometimes we just can t help it This is the case with me and Jodi Picoult We began our relationship when I read Salem Falls and was happy with the characterization and the twisty plot I read My Sister s Keeper I read a bunchAnd started to realize that she loves using courtroom scenes with a surprise twist Somewhere, later in Jodi s career she changed her format from courtroom scenes and surprise twists to a researched topic with a surprise twist ending She picks a hot topic and decides to write a novel around it, doing research and creating a plot around it We have the school shooting We have the gay relationship We have the previous book, Holocaust themed Now we have a book revolving around elephants Yes, Jodi, we get it, you do a lot of research for your books and decide to exploit...The author became so caught up in her mission to spread the word about the plight of elephants that she forgot about the plight of readers who expect a good story The end was full of cheap tricks to finish it off so she could tell youabout elephants If that s what I wanted to read, I d have chosen the National Geographic Some of the writing is brilliant, lyrical, heart stopp...I ve averaged my rating all things elephant related are 5 stars, with the people stuff being 3 stars Picoult uses her trademark multiple points of view to good effect in this novel, which hasheart than some of her recent novels If you re not enthralled with elephants the way I am, you probably won t feel the emotional attachment to this novel that I did, beginning with the Alice s first section, written by the scientist doing field research on elephant memory and their grieving process I ve averaged my rating all things elephant related are 5 stars, with the people stuff being 3 stars Picoult uses her trademark multiple points of view to good effect in this novel, which hasheart than some of her recent novels If you re not enthralled with elephants the way I am, you probably won t feel the emotional attachment to this novel...Thirteen year old Jenna Metcalf is determined to find out what happened to her mother, Alice who disappeared from her life when she was just three years old Alice was a scientist who studied elephants in Botswana, Africa from there she went to New England Elephant Sanctuary Jenna was eleven when she started actively searching for her mother, but getting someone to help her search would come at a cost, so she started taking up babysitting jobs Jenna had asked her grandmother for answers, but s Thirteen year old Jenna Metcalf is determined to find out what happened to her mother, Alice who disappeared from her life when she was just three years old Alice was a scientist who studied elephants in Botswana, Africa from there she went to New England Elephant Sanctuary Jenna was eleven when she started actively searching for her mother, but getting someone to help her search would come at a cost, so she started taking up babysitting jobs Jenna had asked her grandmother for answers, but she wasn t giving anything away and as for Jenna s father he was catatonic in a psychiatric hospital, so Jenna knew she wouldn t get any...It s been a long time since I ve picked up a Picoult novel I enjoyed the first few I read, but then got worn down by how formulaic they were Pick a topical moral dilemma, weave a story around it, throw in some court room action and hey presto a bestseller.Given it s been awhile, I was surprised to find Picoult has strayed from that tried and tested formula This book does not have a story worked around a moral dilemma, and there s no court room drama either Instead, well, there s a bit of a m It s been a long time since I ve picked up a Picoult novel I enjoyed the first few I read, but then got worn down by how formulaic they were Pick a topical moral dilemma, weave a story around it, throw in some court room action and ...Thirteen year old Jenna Metcalf had spent the last ten years of her life researching her mother, Alice s life learning everything she could about the mother who disappeared when she was only three years old Alice was a scientist who studied elephants, first in Botswana, Africa then at the New England Elephant Sanctuary in the US, where both African and Asian captive elephants were able to live out the remainder of their lives in a natural habitat, free from the chains of bondage.The Sanctuary Thirteen year old Jenna Metcalf had spent the last ten years of her life researching her mother, Alice s life learning everything she could about the mother who disappeared when she was only three years old Alice was a scientist who studied elephants, first in Botswana, Africa then at the New England Elephant Sanctuary in the US, where both African and Asian captive elephants were able to live out the remainder of their lives in a natural habitat, free from the chains of bondage.The Sanctuary was where Jenna had been born, where her mother and father Thomas Metcalf worked together, caring for their beloved elephants, and learning of the close familial bond which elephant families share Alice, ...

• English
• 17 January 2017
Jodi Picoult
• Hardcover
• 398 pages
• 0345544927
• Jodi Picoult
• Leaving Time