The Pact: A Love Story
by Jodi Picoult
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Book Reviews of The Pact: A Love Story
Book Review: Awful
Summary: 1 Stars
I am so disappointed after finishing this book. None of my questions were answered and not in the good way where it's left to your imagination. The characters are superficial. We never get beneath the surface with any of them and least of all Emily. I feel I knew Emily the least and that is the character I really wanted, and felt I should, know deep down. So many aspects are hard to believe. I really wanted to like this book and thought I did while I was reading it but for it to be so heart wrenching and then come out with nothing is really frustrating!Book Review: Don't Read This Book
Summary: 2 Stars
I read this book about teenage suicide several years ago and was incensed at the iresponsiblity of the author in romanticising in a sick Romeo and Juliett type of way two obviously disturbed teens contemplating and finally commiting this selfish act!Teenagers have enough to contend with in this day and age with drugs,sex,violence,peer pressure and absent parents.I hope Ms.Picoult's own children never read or take this book seriously or the rest of the children throughout the world.Highly irresponsible writing.This is no "love story".It is a nightmare.Book Review: Un-put-downable!
Summary: 5 Stars
As, it says on the cover, this is a gripping read and I definitely recommend it. It follows the story of two teenagers who grew up together and seemed to be destined to live their lives together until one of them is shot and the other is accused of her murder. Did he kill her or was it suicide? I thought that there was a particular detail in the girl's childhood that could have been better left to the reader's imagination but, other than that, Jodi Picoult does an excellent job of portraying the intense emotions involved and keeping you reading.Book Review: Teenage Suicide
Summary: 3 Stars
The topic of this book is teenage suicide, so it is not a warm and fuzzy novel. I love reading Jodi Picoult, but this was not one of her best works. I understood the loneliness of the heroine in the novel, but I could not understand why she felt suicide was the only way. This story felt incomplete somehow, like there was something Mrs. Picoult was leaving out. By the end of the book, even the romance felt tainted. The surprise at the end of the novel was that there is no surprise, no explanation, no satisfaction. Just an ok read for me.Book Review: Truly Amazing
Summary: 5 Stars
I only discovered this author a few months ago by happening to pick up My Sister's Keeper. I was then compelled to purchase every book Jodi Picoult has written. The Pact is touching and so real to life. I had a hard time putting this book down. The characters are believable and the test of family and friends is that to real life. I enjoy being pulled into the books I am reading and have the same emotions I would watching an Oscar winning movie. Kudos to Jodi, she is an amazing author.