The Storyteller.

Let me just start this review by saying I am a huge Jodi Picoult fan. I have read everything by her and loved them all, well I wasn't particularly fond of Picture Perfect.

It is a book about the Holocaust, but for me personally it wasn't just 'another' book about the Holocaust. It really made me think about how it must have been for the prisoners of war, the Nazi SS Soldiers, and just about everyone else.

The Storyteller however I loved. I have a great interest with all things Holocaust related, not in a morbid sort of way. But I am just fascinated with everything around that time. It amazes me how people can act the way they do. And Jodi really told the different characters stories well. It's definitely not an easy book to read, mainly because of how true to life the characters situations are.

The book starts off with the main female character Sage. Although she was not directly affected by the holocaust she is by extension. Her Grandmother was a prisoner of war, but it's something that she doesn't really talk about.

Sage meets a man in her therapy group, an old man who she recognizes as someone who comes into the bakery in which she works. They strike up a kinship to some degree, then he reveals that he was a Nazi SS Guard in a concentration camp and he would like her to help him die. He paints himself as some sort of monster in order to convince Sage that should would be doing the right thing. But Sage has her doubts and contracts a government agent to help dig up the past of Josef Weber. It's during the dig for information that a lot of the story unfolds from, and Sage's Grandmother Minka becomes involved.

The books flits back and forth between present day and back to 1940's Germany, the stories are intertwined so you don't get caught up in whats happening in what you're reading at the time and what you have previously read.

I don't really want to write much else about the storyline for fear I will give away spoilers (and knowing me I would. Sometimes I get a bit carried away.) All I can say is that there is a twist at the end of the book, that knocked me for six. Some people I've talked too said they saw it coming, but as for me I had no idea that was going to happen.

It's definitely on my must re-read pile.