thebritster101 's review for:

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

3.75

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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When Kate was 2 years old, she developed leukemia that would be best treated with someone with a genetic match. Not being one themselves, her parents did what they thought was best: they conceived a child that was a bone marrow match to provide the help their current daughter needs. But what happens when Kate doesn’t start to get better? When Kate’s sister, Anna, becomes a teenager and realizes that she’s become forced into a situation that has been out of her control, what decisions can she make and will they be the right ones?

This was my September friend recommendation book and what a gut wrenching idea of trying to make the right decision when both options hold so much weight but... I didn’t feel like I could truly connect or understand some character traits since most of them did/said things that were so disconnected from how people would act in reality, and the story jumped between scenes/timelines a lot to try and make the reader more invested in the character but just never hit the mark. It did redeem itself with the ending (I bawled), but overall this was obviously an intense story but one of Picoult’s worst that I’ve read in terms of actual writing composition.