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Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult

4 reviews

fkshg8465's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Just as I cannot disprove the existence of alien life, neither can I disprove God. Personally, concluded a few years ago that I didn’t care one way or the other if God was real but that God wasn’t real for me. Reading this book, I looked at God as a fictitious character, which was the only way I could keep any objectivity. Whether God is real or not it’s irrelevant to the story, but it sure felt like the catalyst. Remove the God angle, and all you’ve got is a custody battle and a side romance. But without the God angle, there’s also no story to be told other than a cheating husband (given this happens in the first chapter, this ought not be considered a spoiler). So the book felt weak to me, but I give it three stars because the author is a very good writer overall, which is why I keep coming back for her books. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Body horror, Suicide attempt, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Infidelity, Medical content, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Self harm

markedwithanm's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Gaslighting, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Forced institutionalization, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Blood

kyrstin_p1989's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

For an agnostic, this book was an interesting choice. The child in the story, Faith, is caught up in a custody battle all while being spoken to by god. I found the theology of the book fascinating and the way that Picoult handles questions about religion to be incredibly open-minded. I wish the ending didn’t feel as rushed — it would’ve gotten 4 stars if it hadn’t. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Grief, Infidelity, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship

brookey8888's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

This was really interesting. I really liked kind of learning about seeing God and all the things that comes from that in religion. Like the Catholic Church investigating. I really liked faith she was super cute. At first at didn’t love Mariah but she grew on me and she just became such a strong women/mom. Collin was so freaking annoying like you f’ed off to Las Vegas to get married and didn’t answer your phone so you didn’t know what was going on with faith but your gonna sue for custody like bye. I really liked Millie she made me laugh and Ian grew on me. The reason I’m not rounding it to a four is just because the beginning was slow and on the boring side. It really started to pick up during the trial though.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Infidelity, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt