Book #17

CHANGE OF HEART

by: Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult is, I think, one of my new favorite authors. If you've never read one of her books, her writing style is to have each chapter be told in a first persons point of view, from different characters in the story. It's not from the main characters point of view, but those around them. Last year, I read "My sisters keeper" and I went absolutely insane reading it. I thought I would never read another book of hers, for it was just so emotional, but not in a weeping and wailing sort of way. It was a fantastic book that infuriated me the entire time while reading.

Then my sister calls and says she has this book she wants me to take to Utah with me to read, it was fantastic! Jodi Picoult? Okay, I suppose we'll give her another try. I'm SO glad I did!

This book takes place in the minds of four people...

June, the mother of eleven year old Claire who desperately needs a heart transplant, and also the mother of a little girl and wife of a police officer brutally murdered by Shay Bourne.

Lucius... the inmate whose cell is next to Shay's.

Maggie... Shay's lawyer.

And Father Michael... Shay's spiritual advisor.

And what's the story about? Shay, a death row inmate who wants to do one thing in death... donate his heart to Claire... if Maggie and Father Michael can convince June and the state of New Hampshire to let him do it.

What a fantastic story, even if parts of it were stolen from "The Green Mile"!!!

I am now wishing our local library carried more by Jodi Picoult (my sister checked this out from the high school library where she works). I want to read them all.