Book Review: The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult

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The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I've been a Jodi Picoult fan for years and while I agree with her critics that she has a predictable formula is her stories, it is a formula I thoroughly enjoy. She always takes controversial subjects and leads you along in a story that leaves you questioning your morals. I love stories that challenge my belief system and make me think beyond the story itself.

The Storyteller is another such example of this. It takes an emotionally challenging subject and makes you tread the line between right and wrong, good and evil. For the most part, the story was successful and thought-provoking. There were a few times when I felt frustrated by the lack of depth in Leo and some of the minor characters but overall I felt the story was well crafted and the different voices blended together well.

The one major flaw of this book was that the ending was so utterly predictable that I could have finished off the writing myself. Normally Jodi Picoult leaves me with questions that lack answers, and I like this. This time she made the ending too easy. I guarantee that anyone who reads the first third of this book will figure out exactly how it ends. It's a shame because otherwise this story was brilliant.

When all is said and done, The Storyteller is a book that pretty much any Jodi Picoult fan will enjoy and joins the list of her books I love.

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