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The Tenth Circle

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Gold Star Award Winner!

Trixie Stone is the freshman girl that all other girls, even the upperclassman, envy. She's dating the hottest junior in the school, she's pretty, smart, and gets along with just about everybody. She has a seemingly perfect life.

But that only lasts until she goes to a party that gets way out of hand.

Her ex-boyfriend, who she wants back so badly, inflicts a horrible case of violence upon her.

And now everyone would kill to be nothing like her.

Trixie is one of the few characters that you can actually fall in love with throughout the course of the book. She is everything a teen girl wants to be, but then the reader has to have compassion for her because of what she goes through, and then you really do have to feel bad for her.

This is a book that everyone should read, simply for the wide range of issues that it covers. A great read.

Reviewed by: Taylor Rector

This is only the second book I read by Jodi Picoult. The first one was "My Sister's Keeper" and I enjoyed it much much more. In "The Tenth Circle" there are enough twists & turns to keep the reader alert, however I simply found it to be less captivating.

The story unfolds when Trixie, Daniel's adolescent daughter, accuses Jason, her ex-sweetheart, to have raped her. This of course leads not only to the search of the truth by all involved, including the police, it also triggers off images from Daniel's past, about which he was always very secretive. Meanwhile Laura, his wife and Trixie's Mum, is shattered by the events too and realises, along with Daniel, that Trixie had and has so many issues none of them ever suspected or imagined. Both parents stand by their daughter trying to figure out what to do, how to help her. Also, their own personal issues become more and more interwoven and the plot thickens as a consequence.

The disturbing subject of rape, the intricacy of a teenager's mind, her fragility and the consequences resulting from choices made by parents and children alike are at the core of this book. There are some cartoon strips between some of the chapters, which I did not particularly appreciate because I found them monotonous and distracting, however the prose of this book is good, even though I found some of the events a bit extreme and far-fetched. Therefore I don't think that it deserves more than a low-to-average mark.
Being J. Picoult a prolific author, however, and especially because I have appreciated some of her previous work, I shall not be put off by this particular book and have another one which I'll start soon, "Perfect Match" .