A Spark Of Light.

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A spark of light.

   jodi picoult. 

Publisher  Ballantine Books.

Publication Date: October 2,2018.

Genre:  Contemporary|Suspense. 

Format|Pages: Hardcover|352.

 Source:  Goodreads|Library.

 CONTAINS SPOILERS

The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center—a women’s reproductive health services clinic—its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage.



After rushing to the scene, Hugh McElroy, a police hostage negotiator, sets up a perimeter and begins making a plan to communicate with the gunman. As his phone vibrates with incoming text messages he glances at it and, to his horror, finds out that his fifteen-year-old daughter, Wren, is inside the clinic.


But Wren is not alone. She will share the next and tensest few hours of her young life with a cast of unforgettable characters: A nurse who calms her own panic in order save the life of a wounded woman. A doctor who does his work not in spite of his faith but because of it, and who will find that faith tested as never before. A pro-life protester disguised as a patient, who now stands in the cross hairs of the same rage she herself has felt. A young woman who has come to terminate her pregnancy. And the disturbed individual himself, vowing to be heard.



Told in a daring and enthralling narrative structure that counts backward through the hours of the standoff, this is a story that traces its way back to what brought each of these very different individuals to the same place on this fateful day.

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Once again, I was blown away by this book.



A SPARK OF LIGHT hooked me from first sentence and more I read, harder it was to put it down. JODI PICOULT did it again! This was written and told a bit differently and that was one of things that I loved about it. A SPARK OF LIGHT was like a timeline, of how to led to it, what happened in between. That’s what I wondered from moment that I started reading the book, and of course I wondered how it would end. Would they make it out of there? How far was Hugh wiling to go, in order to make sure that his daughter made it out of there? I understood why he didn’t tell that his daughter was in there, he understood what would happen if he did. I wonder if he though if he could talk him out, or talk to him into sending his daughter out there. Of course I can’t imagine how he must felt when he first got messages from Wren and found out why she was there in first place. I know that he was a bit hurt that she didn’t mention it to him. To me, it seemed like Hugh and Wren seemed to have close relationship. It’s not often I read about father/ daughter relationship like the one that they have. It reminds me of me and my dad, since we have a close relationship as well.



A SPARK OF LIGHT is a beautiful title, don’t you think and cover as well. Even if you haven’t read any JODI PICOULT books previously, I know that the cover itself and the title will have any reader pick up. A SPARK OF LIGHT is a story that will be on your mind after you reach the last page. I am still thinking about it and I finished it hours ago. I know that I would finished it faster then I had if I didn’t have to work. I was always looking forward to when I was off, so I can dig into the story again. I loved how the book was written from different people who were at the Center that day, and George’s daughter, Beth. This way you got to see how they felt and how they were feeling and of course, how they ended up at the center that day. Everyone had their own story to tell. I am not sure if I will be able to pick which character I liked most, all of them had their own story to tell. Expect for George, I couldn’t like him. Despite what his reasons might be, what he did just because what happened with his daughter. I wonder if he would feel differently if he knew the truth of how she got the abortion. At first I wasn’t even aware that Beth was his daughter, not until the end anyways. I know that she had her own troubles but I wonder if she knew about what her father done, and I couldn’t help but wonder how she felt about it, or if she never found out about it. I can’t even begin to imagine how she felt about it once she did.



A SPARK OF LIGHT was filled with a lot of drama. It had quite few twists that I didn’t see coming, especially towards the end. That’s one of things that I love about JODI PICOULT books is that she always adds something that you won’t even see coming. I love her writing, she knows what she writing about, you can tell that she does a lot of research. She knows a way to hook her readers in and to fall in love with her characters. Her stories, they are real. Any time that I read her books, I feel inspired to write, to work on my book. JODI PICOULT is a writer that everyone should check out, and once you do, you will want read rest of her books.



Magnificent!