A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


i wanted to like it but i couldn’t. i appreciated the issues touched in this story, but i felt there were too many characters for me to remember, their thoughts, their flashbacks and it doesn’t help that the storyline moves backwards. it’s like i already reached the peak of the story (at the start) and then i had to be thrown back through the memories of the day. it’s a bit hard for me to follow.

throughout the hours backwards, felt like wren was lost somewhere, hugh’s lines seems repetitious, and the rest became a blur, beth’s seemed like a sideline and doesn’t seem to be on the same ‘hours’.

i probably could understand the flow of the story and would have feel the characters’ emotions and fear better if it had follow the normal sequence of the day instead of ‘turning back’ time. it really felt like the longest day that doesn’t seem to end while reading it.

it was quite disappointing because i had been looking forward to Picoult’s new novel since Small Great Things, which i had enjoyed and couldn’t seem to stop reading.



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