Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult

I am back on my Jodi Picoult kick. I have about 4 of her books waiting for me.

Vanishing Acts is the story of a woman, Delia, discovering that her father kidnapped her when she was 4. After her best friend-unintentionally-tipped the police to her and her father's whereabouts, Delia, her daughter and her fiance head to Arizona to prepare for her father's trial.

There, Delia meets her mother and begins to unravel the missing years of her life. Meanwhile, her father is dealing with being a 60 years+ man entering the prison system. It's not pretty. Delia's fiance is an alcoholic and her best friend is in love with her.

Although I thought it was a good novel, it was not one of Picoult's best. She uses multiple characters to tell the story and although it works, it usually my least favorite way to read a book. In addition, I felt that the description of prison life, as told by Delia's father, was completely unnecessary to the story. I found myself skipping most of these sections.

All in all, I think it's an OK story, but if you are going to read a Jodi Picoult book, make another choice.