Awesome book

Good book little confusing! Jumps around a lot but give it 2 thumbs up. Very sad!

Jewels of wisdom flow from the mouth of this child! Great reading.

This was a great book. I though it was well written, just enough to keep you pulled in. I loved it. I have already passed it on to someone else.

Beautifully written, true Jodi Picoult style. This story will make you appreciate what you have.

By far my favorite novel by Picoult that i have read thus far. A great novel that keeps you at the edge of your seat.

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My Sister's Keeper

Jodi Picoult

Contemporary Fiction

In an effort to save one of its own a Rhode Island family has lost its identity and way. The story revolves around Kate who has rare form of cancer and the effort to keep her alive by her family. However, the care and medical attention needed depends on the youngest child in the family, Anna. Her birth gave new life to her sick sister. Anna is a perfect genetic match to Kate. Anna has given everything to Kate from blood to bone marrow. Anna is told that she will give her kidney to her sister. However, Anna does not want to continue to be a guinea pig any longer. She decides that her parents have to look out for all their children not just Kate. Anna will take them to court if she must. This sets the stage for "My Sister's Keeper".

Jodi Picoult is a unique writer. Each chapter is from a different character's perspective making the story anything but onesided. Picoult reminds me of Alice McDermott.

Reading the book feels like sitting at a dining room table at a dinner party. Each guest taking a turn to tell you their side of the story.
What worked magnificently
The book as a whole works quite well. By changing the perspective every chapter the reader is allowed a full profile of the entire story. By employing this device Picoult allows you as the reader to be completely entrenched in the plotline.

All of the characters are believable but Sara who is the mother never is able to connect with me. I don't know if that was by design but it was disappointing that such a pivotal character never had an impact on me as the reader.

Picoult is the standard bearer for contemporary fiction today. She is the suthor of this generation.

Many consider "My Sister's Keeper" as the definitive Picoult novel. I disagree. This book is a wonderful read and I highly reccomend it. However, I think Picoult's "Nineteen Minutes" is her best work.
What books are most similar to this book?
As I mentioned earlier Alice McDermott and her novels have some similarities to Piccoult's work. Tom Perrotta and Alice Sebold are two contemporaries of Picoult that have the ability to make their characters part of your life.

If you like this book, you will probably like....
"The Appeal" by John Grisham or "The Abstinence Teacher" by Tom Perrotta or "That Night" by Alice McDermott

If you hate this book, you will probably like....
"Coma" by Robin Cook and "The Stranger" by Albert Camus

Great book. I love the different perspectives!

Picoult takes what could easily become a six-hanky Hallmark Movie of the Week and manages to create a powerful and heartbreaking story about a family shattering from the strains of caring for a terminally ill child, and sets it against a subplot involving an attorney who has decisions of his own to make.

Reviewed by Taylor Rector for TeensReadToo.com

Anna wants to be medically emancipated from her parents.

Did I get your attention? That's why I chose to read this book!

Kate has a rare form of leukemia that is hard to treat. And her already born brother, Jesse, is not a genetic match to donate blood, bone marrow, or anything else that Kate needs. So her parents, Sara and Brian, decided to do something that has always had a lot of controversy surrounding it -- have a child that will be picked out of a petri dish who is an exact genetic match to Kate. That way the child can be a donor for her already sick sister.

When Anna turns thirteen, she finally gets sick of undergoing surgeries and procedures for things that have no benefit to her. And now, her mother has asked her to donate a kidney to Kate, because hers are failing. The doctors have even told the family that Kate is too sick for the surgery and they don't think that her body could handle it. But Sara still wants Anna to donate her kidney to Kate. So she goes to a lawyer, who aggrees to help her for free, to medically emancipate herself from her parents.

Anna sits through the trial and argues with herself to make sure that what she is doing is right. Brian is a firefighter and so he decides that while the trial is going on, it would be best if Anna stayed at the station with him. And for the first time in a long time, they get to bond.

Who lives? Who dies? Who wins? Who loses? Is this trial a fight of winning and losing? How does a family handle a daughter who is finally fighting back?

A close friend of mine suggested that I read MY SISTER'S KEEPER. It's one of her favorite books, so I agreed to try it. And am I ever happy that I did! I can honestly say that I haven't read a book this well-written in a long time! With every chapter the narrator changes, so the reader gets a chance to see what every character in the book thinks of the current events. I had never read a Jodi Picoult book before, but I definitely will be reading more in the future!

I saw the movie before I read the book (Something I rarely ever do) I was extremely impressed with the movie, it was riveting and emotional. I loved it. I started to read the book, and even though i feel like I had to push myself to get through some parts, i kept reading. The last 40 or so pages, were incredible. Mostly being the last 10 pages were as emotional as it gets. And after I cried, I got angry. How could they change the ending like that? (Excuse me if you have not read the book yet. i won't say how the endings differ). Changing small plot lines is one thing, but this was major And it royally ticked me off! The book ending had so much passion, meaning, feel to it. It was amazing. I just couldn't believe Jodi Picoult let them do that to the ending. Given, I was completely impressed with the book - I loved it. But, I'm still really ticked about them changing the ending because this ending was a thousand times better.

I think that with all the hype behind this book, my expectations were higher than they should have been. It took me quite a while to get into this book. I forced myself to continue reading it because I wanted to read the book before seeing the movie so that I could compare the two. I have to say that once I got over halfway into the book I did not want to put it down. Now it is time to see the movie.....

My Sister's Keeper changes viewpoints with each chapter. Since I wasn't a fan of the mom, whenever the mom's chapter rolled around I would find myself hesitant to read it. Jodi Picoult obviously writes this way for a reason; she wants the reader to empathize with all of her characters.
Incredibly shocking ending!!

Loved it!

I thought this book was very good but I think it would have been better for me if I had not heard so many people rave about it. My expectations are always too high when people do that.

A gripping story. A fictional page-turner that address controversial issues. This is a beautiful, heartbreaking, controversial, and honest story. I like this story a lot and gave it a 4.5! This story has been made into a movie and now in theaters.

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