Nineteen Minutes

I read Nineteen Minutes along with My Sister’s Keeper, and now I never need to read another book by Jodi Picoult again. Each novel has an interesting ethical dilemma (one about a highschool shooting, the other about ethics in health care and preserving life), but here is what to expect:

1. Strong & sexy woman protagonist who drinks a lot of coffee, and will find love by the end of the novel with older man, also a coffee drinker.

2. Rotating points of view; each vignette ends with a “deep” comment about relationship or the novel’s ethical dilemma.

3. The entire life story of every single character in the novel.

4. A twist at the end of the novel that makes you angry, even though you saw it coming for the previous three chapters.

5. Unsatisfying resolution with unnaturally happy characters.