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vanishing act by jodi picoultgod damn. i swear she’s actuall..

Published: March 13th 2025, 7:00:05 pm

vanishing act by jodi picoult

god damn. i swear she’s actually smart and is just writing for dumb people. i feel the same way about kristin hannah and frieda mcfadden. they’re well educated women who could all write such masterpieces if they would just trust their audiences enough to understand them. i know making corny shit for the masses makes more money, and they have children to feed, but just once i’d love if they really tried to write some real literature. i think jodi and hannah are for sure capable of it, maybe even frieda. you can tell from the quotes they use to introduce books or chapters that they’re well read. you can tell they appreciate real literature, so why don’t they make it themselves ? are they really incapable of better, or is it a conscious choice to sellout ? will i always be a better reader than writer like these women ? she’s got a line in this one “ we find ourselves walking through our lives blindfolded, and we try to deny that we’re the ones who securely tied the knot.” what a beautiful metaphor for denial. i truly believe she’s capable of poetically conveying ideas like that more often. this has the same level of pathos as a kristin hannah novel. picoult has a talent for evoking emotion, and i do wish she’d use it more, even though it pains me when she does. it seems to me like these earlier books are so much better researched and written than her latest stuff. she has such an absolutely mastery of conveying nuance. the characters in this one were some of my favorites that she has ever created(ruthann i love you.) i still stand by what i said in my last picoult review, that her mc always seems to be the same woman, but there are some side characters in this one that were really different and fun. speaking of different and fun she wrote some rap in this one,,, was not expecting that. raps aside there was no plot twist, but that’s fine, because jodi picoult tells us “life is not a plot; it’s in the details” 7.7/10