My Sister's Keeper - you need to read this book!

[Lara2]

Pickerd this up in ASDA out of idle curiosity and having nothing to read. It was the most incredible book - about a girl who is born to save her sister's life and at the age of 13 sues her parents for medical emancipation. I thought it would be fairly stereotypical when I got home and read the blurb properly - but it wasn't. It was very thought provoking and very unexpected. I read the last 2 chapters in the bath, which was just as well because by then I was howling! This doesn't give anything away. So, buy it and enjoy!

Ohmigoodness, this is soooo harrowing. I had terrible dreams after reading it last night and I'm only 120 pages in. I'm looking forward to the twist in the plot but heck, what a novel.

I sobbed and sobbed, and according to a regular MNer, I come across as scary, but I am obviously soft.

Scary, eh? Someone on MN called me hardhearted tonight. Do you think it's better to be hard-hearted or scary?

Okay, you lot have now scared me off reading the book. Bought it last week & just haven't got around to reading it and now don't think I will as can't stand crying at the moment.

Think it might be the only book that sits on my bookshelf & is never read.

read it, its a great book.

I read it and thought it was excellent too.

You've got to read it henshake, it's fantastic!

Any of you read The Pact?

Yes - brilliant

and Plain Truth - also very good - am waiting for Vanishing Act to come out in paperback!

Yes, thoroughly enjoyed The Pact, I personally would have chosen a different ending, but all in all an engrossing read.

Jodi Picoult doesn't have make 500 odd pages go quick! She's good!

I probably would have changed the end too.

I sobbed for the first half, and was wary to read the rest because I didn't look pretty (nice pink eyes and swollen nose.... DH came to bed and thought something was wrong with the baby!!!!), but I got ok after that for some reason.

Oh dear, I bought this book ages ago, but haven't had 2 minutes to get past the first chapter, thought I'd take it on the train with me and read when ds hopefully goes to sleep, but by the sounds of it I will need a whole pack of tissues as well ?

SPOILER ALERT!!!
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I got to the end of My Sister's Keeper last night and whilst the twist at the end was good it was also rather preposterous! I mean, how likely is that someone who has such bad epilepsy he needs a service dog would be permitted to drive?? And after the organs were harvested, how was it possible for A's heart still to be beating in her body. The post script, where K has become a teaching-standard dancer, is also unbelievable. All dance teachers I'm aware of had to start young - it's not the sort of thing you pick up in later years. I wish Jodie Picoult had paid a little more attention to such detail as these small things spoilt the gripping storyline for me.

K was very gifted, a natural

LOL, I don't think I read the post script, missed that!

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No real spoiler, just felt since it was relating to the same post that I should do that... I think that she needs to work on all her endings. I found the end slightly obsurd. Still sobbed my heart out, but it was then that it felt like complete fiction to me, whereas before it was believable. I felt the same with The Pact (no spoilers, just that I felt a bit let down)... I wonder if it will be the same with Vanishing Act (next on the shelf to read )

don't you feel that with a lot of books though? I do

I sometimes feel, even although it can be frustrating, that it is better to be left with an open ending that you can decide for yourself exactly what happened.

It won't put me off another JP though, her books are great up until the ending.

Not that many... Either I've been feeling fairly let down most of the way through, so don't have much hopes for the end, or I love it.

With the various chick lit, or murder thriller type ones, I expect a fairly shoddy ending , so don't get let down. Most other things, if I've been enjoying the book, they tend to live up to my expectations.

I'm easily pleased though I tend to love reading so much that I don't care what I'm reading!

Glad I'm not alone! Flamesparrow, you hit the nail on the head; it did indeed become a work of fiction because of the poor ending. What's that saying - 'For want of a nail the shoe was lost??'

Maybe we should have a thread where we post our alternative suggestions for My Sister's Keeper and The Pact? (Probably should put a "plot spoiler" warning on it).

Just read this on holiday so resurrecting thread. Also a spoiler.

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And how come, if Campbell was having seizures as often as it's clear he is, no-one in the legal profession in Providence knows about it? He couldn't manage to keep it a secret for the week or so this book takes, so how had he managed for 15 years before the book?
And, since K was so ill they didn't expect her to survive the surgery anyway, how likely was it that she would go on to be a ballet teacher?
As well as Jesse's implausible resurrection as police hero.
Interesting, and moving in parts, but overplotted and overwritten (IMVHO)