The Tenth Circle

By Jodi Picoult. Its her latest and after reading a few of her old ones..i guess i expected a lot from this one too. But this felt a lot like Salem Falls with the underage heroine raped. But it has its differences...its a kind of graphic novel with cartoons in the midst. The heroine Trixie Stone is just another high school girl who broke up with her boyfriend Jason and is devastated because of that. Her father Daniel Stone is a cartoonist who has stayed at home to bring up the daughter while his wife Laura worked as a Dante Professor in college.
The Tenth Circle is about a tenth circle in Dante's Hell into which Dante and Virgil are dragged into to meet the Devil himself. The various stages and characters in the book are potrayed in the comic strips throughout the book to bring out the hellish circumstances that the Stone family is going through.
There is Daniel with a childhood he has not discussed with anyone...at the end of the book Daniel is forced to face his personal demons to get his daughter back into his life. Laura struggles with herself and is distraught about her infidelity.
The book has all the classic Picoult elements...an uncomfortable personal situation where the right is never really right and wrong mite not seem so. Interesting read but definitely not as incredible as the other Picoult books.