A review by ravensandlace
Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult

slow-paced

5.0

Title: Vanishing Acts
Author: Jodi Picoult
Genre: Contemporary Adult Fiction
Format: paperback
Series: N/A
Star Rating: 5 stars

tw: in this book, there is talk of child molestation. It is not very descriptive but it is talked about. This is the only trigger warning I have for this book.

Well, what can I say about this book? At first, I was going to give it 4 stars because it was good but it wasn't blowing me out of the water. Then a major plot twist happened and I suddenly couldn't put the book down. I just had to find out what happened. So I read about 150 pages in a couple of hours.

POVs are Jodi Picoult's bread and butter. She gives each main character a chapter so that character can discuss their feelings about the events happening, the feelings of another person, etc. I love that and that is why I keep going back to her books again and again. In this particular book, Delia, Eric, Andrew, Fitz, and Elise (later in the book) each have chapters. Each person gets a specific font as well so it is easier to keep them straight.

I found that I liked Delia's and Fitz's chapters the most. They spoke with such feeling and heart. I may or may not have shipped them. I read fast through the others so that way I could get to these two. Especially after the plot twist. I didn't care for Eric at first when I learned about him through Delia but when I got a chance to read his POV, my mind changed. I thought he was a jerk but in all reality, he is a man who is just losing control of everything around him. Andrew's impressed me the least. He was so vague, it was irritating.

As for the story, you know the major plot twist (the first one) in the first 50 pages. That is what put me off from the book and from giving it a full 5 stars at first. I thought that the book was going to go very slowly as everybody finds out the secret lawyers prepare for the trial and everybody discusses their feelings and whatnot. But it wasn't quite as slow as I thought it was going to be. Yes, in some parts it felt like filler. Like what was going on with Andrew in jail. Some parts I just didn't care enough about.

Overall, This was just a really solid enjoyable book. Jodi Picoult has a way of writing about such taboo topics and making them so they aren't so taboo. I highly suggest this book and all her other ones as well. All are so good in their way. I have yet to find one that I have rated less than 3 stars. 
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