Second Glance: A Novel
Written by Jodi Picoult
Narrated by George Guidall
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
“Sometimes I wonder....Can a ghost find you, if she wants to?”
An intricate tale of love, haunting memories, and renewal, Second Glance begins in current-day Vermont, where an old man puts a piece of land up for sale and unintentionally raises protest from the local Abenaki Indian tribe, who insist it’s a burial ground. When odd, supernatural events plague the town of Comtosook, a ghost hunter is hired by the developer to help convince the residents that there’s nothing spiritual about the property.
Enter Ross Wakeman, a suicidal drifter who has put himself in mortal danger time and again. He’s driven his car off a bridge into a lake. He’s been mugged in New York City and struck by lightning in a calm country field. Yet despite his best efforts, life clings to him and pulls him ever deeper into the empty existence he cannot bear since his fiancée’s death in a car crash eight years ago. Ross now lives only for the moment he might once again encounter the woman he loves. But in Comtosook, the only discovery Ross can lay claim to is that of Lia Beaumont, a skittish, mysterious woman who, like Ross, is on a search for something beyond the boundary separating life and death. Thus begins Jodi Picoult’s enthralling and ultimately astonishing story of love, fate, and a crime of passion.
Hailed by critics as a “master” storyteller (The Washington Post), Picoult once again “pushes herself, and consequently the reader, to think about the unthinkable” (Denver Post). Second Glance, her eeriest and most engrossing work yet, delves into a virtually unknown chapter of American history—Vermont’s eugenics project of the 1920s and 30s—to provide a compelling study of the things that come back to haunt us—literally and figuratively. Do we love across time, or in spite of it?
Jodi Picoult
JODI PICOULT is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-six novels. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the New England Bookseller Award for Fiction, the ALA’s Alex Award, the New Hampshire Literary Award for Outstanding Literary Merit, and the prestigious Sarah Josepha Hale Award in recognition of her distinguished body of written work. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband. They have three children. You can visit her website at wwww.jodipicoult.com
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I think it's enough to say that i felt involved in the story all along, felt never bored and couldn't put it down until I finished it. The storyteller did a great job with his unique low voice and superb acting skills too. You have to be very watchful though with the lots of names and threads. But once you get the hang of it it, you feel captivated and will not let go.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It's an intricate story . Real life issues woven into a ghost story. You don't even realize how deep the issues were until you right in the middle of them.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Ms Picoult is a good story teller, the characters are nicely developed. But I find the books overly long and they could be much shorter.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I love her books! Great twists & never disappoints
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5So much fun to delve into the spirit world then to discover more about eugenics. Interesting combination of ghost and science. I liked it.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A story intertwined with seperate lives all forming part of the puzzle which will eventually fall into place! Everything is connected with twists from the past and present glued together with a mix of love and hope struggling against a self proclaimed superiority! However I think it dragged along a bit, but still a very enjoyable story.
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