My Sister's Keeper: A Novel by Jodi Picoult Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of My Sister's Keeper: A Novel
Book Review: Irrevocably moving
Summary: 5 Stars
I just finished this book, and I've just stopped crying. I read it in two days because I just couldn't stop reading. Told from the perspectives of the various characters whose lives are entwined through Kate's sickness. It's very moving and really makes you think about what is right, whether love can overcome ethics, morals, the law. Jodi Picoult is amazingly skilled at capturing the emotions and everyday actions of the different people involved in this traumatic situation. It is very well written weaving several plotlines around the main focus of the story, and with an ending which leaves you shocked and moved. Definately worth reading if you can handle the delicate subject matter of a girl fighting for rights over her own body when her parents expect her to donate a kidney to her very sick sister.Book Review: 5 Stars
Summary: 5 Stars
Fantastic book. Couldn't put it down. Very few books move me and this one nearly had me in tears at the end. Get the tissues handy.Book Review: FANTASTIC READ
Summary: 5 Stars
My husband bought this book for me as a holiday read and I was rather dubious at first. I do not usually enjoy books that are written in first person but I could not put this down! It is about a young girl who sues her parent for the rights to her own body. The sole purpose of her existance was to save her terminally ill sister and she went through years of medical invasion. Each chapter is seen through the eyes of a different character of the book so you know what that person is feeling and the effect the whole situation is having on them.This was the first book I have read by this author but it had me gripped until the shocking end and left me crying for hours!
AMAZING!
Book Review: You must read this book
Summary: 5 Stars
Fantastic book, just buy it and read it. You won't be able to put it down.Book Review: Awesome, inspiring and beautifully written.
Summary: 5 Stars
A short while ago, I was asked what my favourite 3 books ever were...because i've read so many books of differing genres I found this a difficult one...until I read this. Without doubt it's my number 1 book so far.Following the harrowing and heart-breaking family life of Sara and Brian, whose son Jesse is a tearaway, daughter Kate has been diagnosed with terminal leukaemia and youngest daughter Anna - conceived through IVF to be a genetic match for her dying sister - has had enough. Since the second Anna was born she's donated blood, bone marrow and more to her sister without being consulted and the final straw is the assumption that she'll give up a kidney to Kate as a last grasp at saving her life. Anna's a teenage girl who's always lived in her sister's shadow, decides to take her parents to court, for the rights to her own body.
Each chapter is written from a different perspective, which adds to the depth and complexity of this book. One moment I was sympathising with Anna and feeling shock at her mother's apparent callousness and biased love. The next, I found myself crying at Sara's love for her daughters and her feelings of utter helplessness in such a desperate situation. Each viewpoint shows a different angle to this awful dilemma and gives the novel the fullness and credibility it needed to do it justice.
This is a contentious issue and always will be, and Picoult has depicted the harrowing decisions and predicaments faced by families like this with great sensitivity.
I usually, once engrossed in a book, fly through the pages in a bid to reach the end. However, with this, it was so beautifully written I lingered over every word. Picoult's descriptive prose invokes such potent images and there are snippets in here, so simple in their metaphors or similes, that made me stop and think about my life and how fortunate I really am.
I went into this with no expectations - I read The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebould and anticipated a torrent of tears which never actually came. Well they did with this - I found myself completely moved by this beautifully written book.
Not only is the storyline gripping - right to the last page - but the prose is quality. Not a book to read if you're after a barrel of laughs (although I did chuckle at the lawyer sometimes! There is humour in dark places, after all) but a thought-provoking, heart-breaking, truly wonderful novel.