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Title: My Sister's Keeper
Author: Jodi Piccoult
Page Count: 423 (Story) 11 (Reading Guide and interview) 434 (Total
Publisher: Washington Square Press

I picked up this book because it had an interesting overview on the back and a very interesting internal dialogue as the opener. I started reading it because I was bored out of my mind on an overnight shift and had it with me.


((I'll finish this later. I'm so damned tired and sitting here is making me waver between being upright and crashing into the keyboard as I pass out... besides, I can't find any of the parts I wanted to quote in here....))

It was in the library when I went there! ^^ I just picked it up and started to read LOL. It was damn nice kays?? I cried in the end, where the little sister died. I agree with Tak-Jak though, some of the parts were pretty terrible.

I thought it was pretty mediocre, but I think that's more because I've read a lot of her books and, honestly, they get old extremely quickly, than because of any specific faults the book had. Not that it didn't have faults, of course, but if it had been the first of hers I'd encountered I would have liked it better. Or something.

Let's see: the characters annoyed me, most of them, with the exception of the father; I have trouble with her writing style in first person, too, so that didn't help with relating to them. The book made me angry at some parts because I felt I was being manipulated, in a sense - certain portions seemed written just for emotional value, not as part of a good story. I don't like that kind of writing; it makes me suspicious of the author's intentions, when the best books are those where I don't think about the author at all. Uh. I don't know. The premise was interesting, I suppose, and the writing wasn't bad, and so on. Kind of outshined by the flaws.