#6 VANISHING ACTS by Jodi Picoult

Number of Book #6
Date Began and Finished 1/24- 1/27 2008
Genre - Fiction
Year It Was Published - 2005
Publisher - Atria Books
number of Pages 418
hardcover
Reason for reading: TBR
Rating 4/5 stars

Blurb or Synopsis: Another page turning book by Jodi Picoult, VANISHING ACTS tells the story of a woman who learns that her real identity is not who she thinks she is. Her father had kidnapped her when she was around 3 years old, and since then he had told Delia that her mother was dead. The news comes to her as a shock, learning that she has a mother who she does not remember, and a father that has been lying to her all these years.

Delia is about to be married to the father of her daughter. she has her own business, a search and rescue service. Things were going well but now they are falling apart. Her father is now in jail for the kidnapping and has been extradited to another state, Arizona.

Besides the drama surrounding her father's case and the fact that her fiance Eric has become her father's lawyer, Delia is having problems with her relationship with Eric, mainly because he's keeping her out of the loop. But it's all about client confidentiality, yet Delia feels she's being shut out.

In the mean time, Andrew, Delia' father, is learning what it is like behind bars, and it is not pretty. What he goes through may offend some readers. It's traumatic, it's brutal. But the entire time Andrew insists he plead guilty, while Eric tries to get Andrew to change his mind.

Fitz, Delia's other best friend, does all he can to be supportive. What Delia doesn't realize, is that all this time, throughout their entire friendship between the three of them - Eric, Delia and Fitz - Fitz has had feelings for Delia. But he's been the good guy and has kept his distance from her except in the capacity of a best friend. Delia begins to lean on Fitz more for emotional support, as Eric begins to distance himself from her.

Eric is also going through some trauma of his own. The case has brought back on his drinking problems, and as he learns more about Andrew and the women he had been married to in the past, Eric finds a connection between this life and that of little Delia, when she was living her first life with her mother and father in Arizona.

Jodi Picoult's books are always riveting and hard to put down. I've never been disappointed by any of her books and was glad I finally picked up VANISHING ACTS.