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Title: Picture Perfect by Jodi Picoult ISBN: 0-425-18550-8 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 02 July, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.56 (18 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Good, but Keeping Faith, so much better
Comment: This was a good book, but Keeping Faith was better. As far as the subject matter, Strange Fits of Passion by Anita Shreve was better than this book. This is not a bad book at all, but I was disappointed.
Rating: 3
Summary: Far From Perfect!
Comment: Jodi Picoult is a great story teller. Writing about relationships is her strength. I have read all of her novels and have been captivated, time after time, by her characters and engrossing storylines. "Picture Perfect" is not one of Ms. Picoult's best efforts, however. This novel of the relationship between a Hollywood super star and a brilliant and acclaimed anthropologist is too contrived for my taste. She writes about an important and difficult societal issue here, but the complexity and real drama of her story are diminished by the unnecessary glitter of her characters and the addition of a subplot, so tangential, it is superfluous.
Cassie Barrett is a physical anthropologist and lecturer at UCLA. She has been assigned to work at one of the university's sites in Tanzania for the semester when she is disturbed by the crew of a film production company in the process of making a movie. Since the film just happens to feature an anthropologist, she is recruited as a consultant and meets super star actor and heartthrob Alex Rivers. In a Cinderella romance with overtones of the "Lifestyles Of The Rich and Famous," the two fall in love and marry. But gold does not lie beneath the glitter. Alex carries tons of baggage from an abusive childhood. Cassie has baggage of her own. Picoult describes the psychological dynamics of the couple with a sharp and knowing eye. Her characters are finely drawn, realistic and compelling. Characters and a parallel story are introduced that would make an interesting novel in itself, but are so removed from the main plot that their presence is distracting. I was left with a feeling that the author had added apples to oranges and hoped to come up with a logical rational for her character's actions. This is not typical of Ms. Picoult's usual taut plots and tight writing style. Apples and oranges do not mix well in this novel and I was left hungry.
JANA
Rating: 5
Summary: Perfect...
Comment: Jodi Picoult never fails me. This is the 5th book of her that I've read, and despite the fact that it isn't one of her page-turning courtroom drama types, Picture Perfect ranks right up there with my favorite, Plain Truth.
Anthropologist Cassie Barrett wakes up in a cemetary with a cut on her head and wondering how it got there. Will Flying Horse, a Native American police officer for the LAPD, finds Cassie wandering the streets and rescues her. Cassie doesn't know who she is or what she is doing -- a classic case of amnesia. Will aides in finding Cassie's family only to discover that she is none other than famous Hollywood actor Alex Rivers's wife! Slowly Cassie integrates back into Alex's life of fame, fortune, and house help. Until one day, triggered by something she sees, Cassie's memories and the reason for the cut on her head come flooding back to her. Now the only thing left for Cassie to do is escape....
I don't know what it is exactly that made me love Picture Perfect so much. The writing, as always, was exceptional, and the style of the writing was very easy flowing. And the story itself was very interesting, honest and believeable. I am an avid fan of Jodi Picoult's and reading Picture Perfect was a solid reminder of why. Kudos to you, Jodi, for another wonderfully rendered portrait of a novel.
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Title: Harvesting the Heart by Jodi Picoult ISBN: 0140230270 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Perfect Match: A Novel by Jodi Picoult ISBN: 0743418735 Publisher: Washington Square Press Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Mercy by Jodi Picoult ISBN: 0743422449 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 03 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult ISBN: 0743418719 Publisher: Washington Square Press Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Keeping Faith : A Novel by Jodi Picoult ISBN: 0688177743 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 25 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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