Or if I am going to cast stones, I want to know what I am throwing them at. I try to avoid genre snobbery (though sometimes it bubbles up with regard to YA fiction and Paranormal Romances) and considering my own tastes range from the highbrow to the very lowbrow, I am not one to cast stones. So, "women's fiction" and "chick-lit" are not my cup of tea, they are not interesting to me, but no reason why such books shouldn't be given the same consideration as any other genre. With The Tenth Circle, Jodi Picoult offers her most powerful chronicle yet as she explores the unbreakable bond between parent and child, and questions whether you can reinvent yourself in the course of a lifetime - or if your mistakes are carried forever. Could the boyfriend who once made Trixie wild with happiness have been the one to end her childhood forever? She says that he is, and that is all it takes to make Daniel, a seemingly mild-mannered comic book artist with a secret tumultuous past he has hidden even from his family, venture to hell and back to protect his daughter. Suddenly everything Trixie has believed about her family - and herself - seems to be a lie. That is, until her world is turned upside down with a single act of violence. She's also the light of her father, Daniel's life - a straight-A student a pretty, popular freshman in high school a girl who's always seen her father as a hero. Fourteen-year-old Trixie Stone is in love for the first time.
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