#4 Between the Lines

I put Between the Lines as 4 because even though it wasn't exactly the same as Jodi Picoult's usual books, it revolved around the same theme: love. I've read a few of her books, mostly cause I was bored, and they didn't entertain me, mostly because they all had the same plot: a girl is depressed or forced into something, and moves somewhere new, where she meets a guy who has his own problems, gets over her problems with his help, and eventually realizes she's in love with him. This book is a bit different in the tone, it's lighter, because Jodi Picoult wrote it with her daughter. Despite that, it's still kind of the same, the main character suffers from abandonment and uses the help of a guy  that she'll eventually fall in love with to get over her problems. I gets boring reading the same things over and over again. Another thing about this book is Jodi Picoult emphasizes too much on how much of a loser the girl is and how much the boy wants to escape. The story is kind of cute, But it's meant for people who like love stories and happy endings, not realists who don't. Also, something's don't add up in the story, like how Oliver doesn't know the simplest of things, yet knows a fire extinguisher. It's a story you could read to kids, if they had patience. I wouldn't recommend it to many people, because it's mainly fluff. It has some serious themes in it, But mostly it's fluff. I don't really like it cause I like books that revolve around things that make you think. This book is a good one for a bad day,  but it won't really captivate someone like me. So my rating was mainly on preference, but I can say that most people would agree with me that it isn't a serious piece of writing. Maybe people would like Jodi Picoult's books more if they weren't the same book with different names.