Jeanette R. (thebeakeeper) reviewed just as bad as the movie on 11/29/2008 + 167 more book reviews

so unfortunately i succumbed to all of the hullabaloo about this book. ugh! i watched the movie when it was on tv and i didnt like it, but id hoped the book was better. i was wrong.

the story is this- a doctor's wife gives birth to a boy and a girl. the girl is born with downs. the doctor has a bad history with downs in his family so he tells his wife their daughter died at birth and passes their daughter on to his nurse who chooses to raise her.

the book takes course over 25 or so years and pretty much no one gets over the past. the dad is weak and cant get over the lie hes lived with. the mother (who didnt even know she was pregnant with twins) cant get over the death of her daughter, and their son is pretty much ignored.

the characters are so incredibly weak its annoying. you just want to say grow a pair and move on. deal with your grief in a healthy way. its such a depressing book and i forced myself to get through it.

one of the main characters randomly dies and its like- huh? its just casually mentioned in a sentence and it really didnt flow.

sorry i wasted my time on the movie and the book. oh well.

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