Blog 6

This weekend I read the book Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult, and I absolutely loved it! The book is about a woman named Delia Hopkins who works as a search-and-rescuer in New Hampshire with her bloodhound Greta. She has a daughter named Sophie and they live with her dad Anthony, and Delia is about to get married to her fiancé Eric when one day her life is turned upside down. She finds out that her dad, Anthony Hopkins is actually not Anthony Hopkins- her dad kidnapped her from her mother when she was about for years old. Anthony is called to trial in Arizona even though the kidnapping occurred twenty-eight years ago, and most of the book takes place during the trial and the days leading up to it. The thing that I love about a lot of Jodi Picoult’s books is that the point of view switches back and forth between characters. This makes it a lot more interesting to read than if the story is being told from just one person’s point of view, because you can understand how all the different characters are feeling, and understand their point of view. It is especially interesting in this book, because for a good portion of the book Anthony is in jail and so you get a glimpse of what his life is like there, while at the same time the reader knows what’s going on with Delia, Eric, their good friend Fitz, and Delia’s mom Elise. As I mentioned in my second blog, which was about Breaking Dawn, I really like when authors use this technique. I thoroughly enjoyed reading Vanishing Acts, and I definitely will keep reading Jodi Picoult’s books.