Vanishing Acts: Chapter One

     Talk about a grabber. This book hooked me right from the start. I pretty much love Jodi Picoult's books on the account that she switches between the characters' perspectives each chapter, and because of the tones she creates for each character: they're so life-like! Also, her writing style is quite amazing: she combines profound observations with the attitude and feelings of a mother. Jodi Picoult really adds a new spin on things.
     Jodi Picoult's Vanishing Acts is about a woman named Delia who for a living finds and rescues missing perons. She is currently planning out her wedding to take place with one of her life-long-friends, Eric, and for her, life is pretty much normal. That is until she suddenly gets flashbacks of a life she can't recall, and the sudden appearance of a police at her door coming to arrest her "father" for kidnapping of Bethany Matthews. Who this Bethany is, we soon find out, was her.
     Upon hearing this, I was so shocked ! How could the man whom she thought as her own father be her kidnapper? It's so unexpected!  And why would he do such a thing: is there a motive? At least the cause of her visions is known; all because the man who she lives with is not really her own flesh and blood... but a stranger.
    The real questions now are, how will this affect her child, her soon-to-occur marriage, her relationship with her "father", and what will happen now that she knows she doesn't know her real parents? So much suspense! I can't wait to read ahead!