The Little Things
December 1, 2015

Since the end of June I’ve read two books by Jodi Picoult, so when I saw her book Leaving Time at the library in audiobook form, I immediately snatched it up!

Leaving Time tells the story of Jenna Metcalf, a teenager who is on a quest to find out more about the disappearance of her mother when she was a young child. She joins with two individuals, a local detective and a psychic, to help her on her quest. Her parents both had worked on research projects with elephants, and Jenna had grown up with her parents working at an elephant sanctuary in the north east. In true Picoult fashion, twists and turns exist throughout the story.

The author also shares quite a bit about elephants, their emotional states, their interactions and relationships, and other sorts of patterns throughout the book, which was fairly interesting.

Leaving Time

A few quotes from the book:

“You can’t blame someone if they honestly don’t understand that their reality isn’t the same as yours.”

“I had not asked to be rescued, true, but that did not mean I didn’t need saving.”

“Just because you leave someone doesn’t mean you ever let them go.”

So what are my personal thoughts on the book? I REALLY really wanted to like Leaving Time, but I just didn’t. I enjoyed the two stories playing out between the past and the present, and think the author did a good job of weaving the two together. However, the book seemed to drag on and on (the audiobook, which I listened to) was 15 hours long, and I think the author could have easily cut 4-5 hours from the story. It felt like a lot of unnecessary facts were included. That being said, I also don’t feel like it was a waste of time to listen to it either. I gave it a 3 out of 5 on goodreads.

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