Vanishing Acts – Jodi Picoult

Genre: Fiction

Delia Hopkins’s whole life has been a lie and this lie is suddenly ripped from underneath her with very little warning.  Once the truth is revealed, is it really what Delia wants?  Is her mother the idea she used to picture when she was young? And is her father really such a bad person for what he did?

I love Jodi Picoult’s books and this one was no different.  It was beautifully written and each moment was perfectly captured and described on the page.  As a reader you are drawn into the story and start to think for yourself about what was right and what was wrong.  This is one of the things that I love most about Picoult’s work, as every story has an underlying moral or lesson.  From this book I learnt that not everything is always as it seems and that even though something may be wrong, it may be what is right for the person who does it.

I was a little bit shocked because the novel also mentions, to the very bare minimum, how to make methamphetamine (Crystal Meth/Tik). I did not realise that something like this would be allowed to be published as it might give people ideas, although I suppose the type of people who would get these ideas would not be caught dead reading this book.