Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult (2008, Hardcover)

Jodi Picoult does not disappoint in her new novel, A Change of Heart. The story centers around an inmate on death row who killed a father and his young daughter. Now, believing in his redemption through donating his heart to the sister of his young victim, the story revolves around his battle to die in a way that allows him to donate his heart and in convincing the mother of both the victim and the girl who needs a heart to accept his heart. I have read all of Jodi Picoult’s books. She has a way of writing about a subject that I always think is a black and white topic and turning it into something much more grey – and utterly believable. How could you feel sorry for a death row inmate? How could you care equally about people who are completely at odds with each other? I read this book in a matter of a few days because the story is so compelling. I needed to keep reading it at every opportunity. This book gets my top rating!