I guessed from like page 100 (out of 500) what would happen on the last page.
Don’t worry, I won’t! I’m just saying – wow.
This one was SO predictable that I wouldn’t even feel like I was spoiling it if I were to tell you what happened. Ugh.Īnd the ending – I’m getting very, very sick of these Picoult endings. They were all, every one of them, in my opinion so selfish, so self-absorbed, and to me they didn’t have nearly developed enough personalities. Charlotte, Sean, Marin (the lawyer), even Piper, I didn’t like any of them. Willow doesn’t count – we barely got to know her, except to learn that she’s extremely precocious and reads at a sixth-grade level (which I did at that age, too, but she was totally not a believable five-year-old, sorry to say). Furthermore, I only liked one of the characters (Amelia). With this one especially, it reminded me a lot of My Sister’s Keeper and I just didn’t think it was as original a story as some of her other books. Having read every novel she’s written, I’m starting to get a little tired of this same type of “everything is not black and white” dilemma that she always presents in her books. Oh, and one more thing – the OB she’s suing? Her long time best friend, Piper Reece.Īnyone familiar with Picoult novels will know that this type of story is exactly what Picoult does best (in fact, some might argue that it’s the ONLY thing she does). Wrongful birth basically means that had Charlotte been given correct information about Willow’s condition while she was early in her pregnancy, she would have aborted the child. The family decides to take a much-needed vacation to Disney World (something that’s nearly impossible with Willow’s disease, but they try anyway), and a series of events occur while on vacation which inspire Charlotte to bring a lawsuit against the OB who treated her while she was pregnant with Willow – a wrongful birth suit. Willow also has an older sister, Amelia (thirteen years old), who is actually not Sean’s biological child but he adopted her when she was five (something that was mentioned several times in the book but didn’t seem to have much point in relation to the rest of the story). The story centers around five-year-old Willow, born with osteogenesis imperfecta (sometimes known as brittle bone disease) and her parents – small town cop Sean O’Keefe and his stay at home mom wife Charlotte. So I guess I’ll just relay my thoughts, as scattered as they may be. Either people love her, and they’re going to read her newest book no matter what I say, or they hate her, and they wouldn’t come close to any of her books no matter what I say. I don’t really know how to review this book – Jodi Picoult is one of those love or hate authors.
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