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|title=Between The Lines

|author=Jodi Picoult and Samantha Van Leer

|publisher=Hodder & Stoughton

|date=July 2012

|website=http://www.jodipicoult.com/between-the-lines.html

|summary=A clever look at what happens to the characters of a book when the cover is closed. Hint: it's something rather special.

}}

Though the premise is an intriguing one, it was definitely the name on the cover that attracted me to his book. And yet this is [[:Category:Jodi Picoult|Picoult]] like never before. There are no courtroom scenes, legal battles or dramatic plot twists here. There is still a decent amount of family drama and potential for heartbreak, but those aren’t hallmarks exclusive to her. Co-written with her teenage daughter, whose idea the whole thing was in the first place, this is a book I’d call good but not great. If every teenage girl is looking for her prince, some would count Delilah lucky she found hers and he was as perfect and princely as one might dream. But she’s very superficial in her judgements: she likes him because of his dashing good looks and the way he is a good listener, but there’s nowhere else he can really go while she’s talking to him so he’s something of a captive audience. I thought he redeemed himself a bit with his loathing for his fictitious princess but I almost wished the ending had involved Delilah realising that her real life friends and family were more important than a one dimensional character in a book, no matter how handsome he is. I loved the idea of this book, but I only liked the delivery in the end, even taking into account the target audience.

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