Like all books by Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle kept me riveted from beginning to end. Jodi knows how to tell a story. This tale, like all her tales, is about a current problem in our society - rape. But what is different is that this story doesn't have a long courtroom scenes like her other books do. And this book is interrupted by comic book pages. The father in the story, Daniel Stone, is a comic book writer. He's writing a story about hell and his comic book story is much like his real life because once his daughter is raped, everything pretty much goes to hell. In Dante's Inferno, the tenth circle of hell is icy cold and is reserved for those who betray someone they love. And that is what happens in the book where the action is finished up in Bethel, Alaska and someone betrays a loved one. I didn't really enjoy the comic book sections. Jodi says at the end of the book that she hid letters in the comic book drawings and if we find them all, there will be an 88 letter secret message. Sounds like a time consuming gimmick to me so "No thanks, Jodi." I liked the book though.
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