I usually don't write a review for books, but this books made me wanna talk to my childern about the affects of bullying. Jodi P. characters draw you in and have you loving them one minute and despising them the next. It was worth every minute and kept my attention throughout. A book that has you thinking long after its done.

I walked around with this audiobook everywhere....I sat extra minutes in the car...I took it into the shower....I could not put this brilliant masterpiece down.

The reader was wonderful and made the book come vividly alive , but it is the author who should be congratulated for putting together this chilling story with, what felt like, real life characters.

Her character development brought every one of those people to life.

It opens your eyes up to the importance of talking to & observing your children and it shows us how little it takes to send someone over the edge.

This is one of the most thoughtful books I have read in a long time. This author expores the human element behind sensational crimes and makes us think about all sides and all angles. This should be required reading for parents of teens, teens and anyone who deals with young people. She doesn't make excuses for the shooter, but doesn't leave the victims blameless either. I hate to say it but I was glad one of the victims was killed and I probably would have fantasized about shooting him too. What does that make me? Guilty as well?

As others have already stated, this book is overly long. I agree this is a very complex topic, but I did not need the first fourteen hours to understand who was a bully, who was a victim, who lacked self-esteem, etc - it was very obvious. I also found the characters a little too "stereotypical". Not every "geek" is a victim and not every "jock" is a bully - would have preferred to spent 21 hours to hear a story with some more complex characters. Overall, an okay read - not sure if I will select another book by this author in the future.

Picoult delivers again. What causes bullied kids to become killers? What kind of parent fails his kids so badly? How do kids find their places in society? Picoult handles family function and dysfunction with empathy and careful balance. Highly recommended.

Very detailed story, lots moving parts, but once you get through the first hours, introduction of all the characters, you will not put it down.

Jodi Picoult is without question the best writer I have ever read.

In my 75 years, I have read hundreds of books. My current favorites are E. Leonard and J. Patterson. Jodi edges them out of the top. Her scene clarity and story flow are the best.

W. A. Redding

This is my first Jodi Picault, and I'm frankly disappointed. She uses a shopworn plot that is totally predictable, a conceit of going forward and backward in time that doesn't really do anything for the story itself, the book is twice as long as it should be, and I think that a lot of the dialogue is rather trite.

Sorry, Picault-lovers.........I'll take PD James or Anne Perry anyday over this author.

Nineteen minutes was an exceptionally well told story of the anguish experienced by one young man for 11 years of public school and the 19 minutes it took for him to "payback" the perpetrators of the bullying that made his life hell.

As the mother of a son who was somewhat of a social outcast (due to OCD) throughout high school, I felt an emotional involvement with the characters. However, in the past 15 years since my son's own agonizing experience, I am upset at the failure of the school authorities to effectively end the bullying of vulnerable students. It would seem that nothing has been learned from the investigations into the school massacres of the last decade.

Teaching and embracing diversity in most educational environments has yet to become either policy or practice. Perhaps when "brains" and "techies" are appreciated as much as school jocks there may be less chance of students developing PTSD from bullying, such as the main character of this book developed.

Jodi Picout certainly helps demistify the unfortunate suffering that goes on behind the backs of adults (parents and teachers) for so many students.

What an engrossing story and great read.

I thought this book was a total waste of time. It felt like the author was capitalizing on the topic of school shootings. If she had a point it wasn't developed. The characters were very weak. It seems that the author wants empathy for about every character she creates, yet even in the 20 hours of listening she doesn't create one believable person. I also thought she wrote this book with a thesauresus.