Customer Reviews
I think this is one of the most heartbreaking stories I have ever read. This would have been a 10 ⭐️ read for me but I will say my ADD had a problem with this author's writing style. There would be random thoughts and flashbacks in the middle of a chapter and I would get lost. Normally I would give up but the main plot was so good and being a mother made this devastating. I did rent this movie but knowing how it's going to break my heart I might need a few days to recover first.
CDs play fine. Good deal
Finishing a book early on at bedtime, I was left shuffling. Libby had a Jodi Picoult. I thought I could never go wrong with anything of hers. Yet, within the chapter, I realized I had already read Small Great Things. I enjoyed that book, but I wanted something new. So I searched Libby and found My Sister's Keeper.This one immediately intrigued me. The younger daughter shows initiative in fixing her problems.Richard Poe, Julia Gibson, Barbara McCulloh, Tom Stechschulte, Carol Monda, Jennifer Ikeda, and Andy Paris narrate this book, keeping the reader/listener engaged. However, I could not get to sleep at a decent hour.I loved hearing the characters' separate points of view.I'm trying not to give spoilers. There is a great blurb on GoodReads and Amazon if you are interested. But make sure the Kleenex is near the end of the book.
It’s definitely worn down and the spine appears to be taped together but it seems to hold up nicely when I open it and the text is all nice and clear and the pages aren’t at all damaged. Good price and nice packaging. Shipped fast.
This novel, authored by one of my favorite wordsmiths, Jodi Picoult, is her very darkest, in my opinion. There was no HEA. In fact, no one other than Campbell Alexander and his lady love, Julia, comes out the other side of this story in a better place. It is all sadness and loss of all things good, to include hope, the one thing the author mentions in the book, that is left in Pandora’s box after she opened it and released all things bad into creation. Hope is all we humans have to fight all of those bad things, but Jodi even took that away. Whoever adapted this for a screenplay, my hat is off to you. You turned this depressing, dark and hopeless work and made it into something worth spending time on. The movie was heartbreaking. And all these years later, after reading it, I’m grateful I didn’t read it before seeing the movie, because I never would have gone to see a movie that followed the book’s storyline exactly. Even though it had Cameron Diaz in it, the other, maybe lesser-known but far more talented and less selfish and made a wonderful film. I did like that Campbell Alexander had a larger story in the book. I understand that the fat had to be trimmed, and nothing left in the film was excess.Do NOT read this exceptionally dark and depressing book unless you’re in the mood to wallow and feel sad and angry. That’s all it achieved in my experience.
