Review by Babs Simspon on show 28th Jan 2010.
Written in 1995, this is one of Picoults earliest novels and is much lighter in tone than the works she produces nowadays.
The story begins with a woman who wakes to find herself lying in a graveyard, hurt and bleeding, her memory wiped clean. She is rescued by a police officer,himself a newcomer to Los Angeles. After days of waiting, she is taken by complete surprise when she is finally identified by Alex Rivers, Hollywood's biggest movie star - and her husband.
Cassie is dazzled and bewildered by the fairytale in which she suddenly finds herself, but everything is not quite right and there is something dark and disturbing behind this glamorous life. It is only as her memory gradually returns that her picture perfect life comes crumbling down and Cassie is faced with choices she never dreamed she would have to make.
It is a good story and the fact that Cassie's policeman rescuer is half Native American who has left his reservation to begin life again as a white man adds some depth, but overall I was rather disappointed.
I pick up a Picoult novel expecting a really thought provoking even harrowing story and this was more like chick-lit (which I do enjoy very much but not when it's written by Jodi Picoult!)
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