Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Keeping Faith
Book Review: Born on a Blue Day
Summary: 2 Stars
Well written but a very confusing book - I guess that's what autism is about and why we don't understand austistic people. I didn't particularly care for the book, but it was well written.Book Review: Clever title; provocative theme
Summary: 4 Stars
"Keeping Faith" is a quick read that makes you think.
The characters are interesting and not especially predictable. For example, Mariah White, mother of Faith, starts out as rather pathetic and annoying but comes into her own as the story progresses.
There are themes of religion, custody, divorce and relationships that are developed and researched well and are not treated redundantly. The story forces the reader to think about various "what ifs" especially religious "what ifs."
What I liked best about this book is that it is not a rehash of ideas; I enjoyed it.
Book Review: Didn't really care for this book.
Summary: 2 Stars
This book is interesting enough to keep your attention and keep you reading, but I was really dissappointed in the book, and wished I hadn't wasted my time reading it. It has some okay moments, but it's very sad and depressing. Some of the events that happen in the book, the author just didn't follow thru giving you more information about, just leaves it, and you're left wondering what happened after that. The ending I hated. I read the last two pages 3 or 4 times, and never really figured out what it said. The book was a good idea, but guess the author isn't very good. I do not recommend anyone reading this book.Book Review: Don't waste your time
Summary: 1 Stars
Keeping Faith is primarily a story about a young girl who suddenly starts seeing God and performing miracles. My impression was that readers would be allowed to come to our own conclusions about this (whether it was real, invented by Faith, invented by her mother for attention, etc.), but it doesn't work out that way: clearly, within the context of the story, Faith is healing people, experiencing stigmata and so forth. The story of how her mother Mariah, the local churches and the media react to this phenomenon is somewhat interesting, but hardly requires a book of this length.
And the romantic side-story involving Mariah and the television atheist, Ian, is terrible. Can you say "wish-fulfillment fantasy"? I'm sure every middle class, newly-divorced woman fighting for custody of her child would love the ego boost of a rich, handsome single man falling madly in love with her for no apparent reason, but.... yeah right. It's unclear why he's even interested.
I've read two Picoult novels now, to give her a fair chance, but don't kid yourself: the unique-sounding plotlines are really just a cover for poorly written melodrama and even more poorly written romance. Unless this is your taste in guilty-pleasure reading, I'd recommend moving on to books of real quality.
Book Review: Eh. Classic Jodi.
Summary: 3 Stars
This book had SO much potential. It wasn't bad but it really wasn't about you thought it was going to be about. You thought it was going to be about if Faith could see God or not and go into detail about it. It wasn't about that much at all, it was about a custody case and the cathloc church. And even in the end, I had to read it 3 times to make sense of what she was trying to say. And it still wasn't clear. It was good, it had it's moments, but I'm still waiting for something.