Recently I've been reading Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult. I'm only about a little under a quarter of the way through at the moment, nonetheless I'm looking forward to reading the rest.
I read My Sister's Keeper by her last year and from these books I've been able to look at Picoult's really unique writing style. She starts out the book switching between the viewpoints of countless, seemingly unrelated characters, like Patrick the cop, Josie the daughter of a judge, and Lacy the pregnancy course teacher. While switching between the viewpoints may be confusing at first, she weaves their stories together quite well and at different points, allowing the reader to ease into it.
Picoult also does a great job of creating realistic and believable, yet still original, characters that really help push the story forward. Currently there's been a student shooting at Josie's school which has drawn Patrick and Josie's characters together since Josie was injured. Even though I've only just started this part the event showed a lot about Patrick's character, how he wasn't even supposed to be in the building but he felt the need to make sure everyone was safe, and he's always pushing himself to do better. If he's able to save ten people's lives, he'll still look at how many lives he wasn't able to save and will continue being hard on himself. It seems like Patrick's character is never satisfied with anything he does and I'm interested in seeing where the rest of the story takes him and the other characters.
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