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myhauntedlibrary 's review for:
The Book of Two Ways
by Jodi Picoult
“Dawn’s two futures unspool side by side, as do the secrets and doubts she’s kept buried. And then there are the questions she’s never truly asked: What does a life well-lived look like? When we leave the earth, what do we leave behind? Do we make choices or do our choices make us? And, who would you be, if you hadn’t turned into the person you are right now?”
The literary parallels in this book are scrumptious! She’s an archaeologist researching on the Book of Two Ways - the first known map of the afterlife - while simultaneously reviewing the two ways her future could play out after surviving a near death experience.
Dawn also works as a death doula (like me!) and spends the book analyzing and working with death in one form or another. Either a the bedside with a dying client, or deep in the earth in a dusty Egyptian tomb studying the hieroglyphs and beliefs of people long-since passed.
It’s obvious throughout the novel that Jodi Picoult did thorough and extensive research into the passions of an archaeologist, ancient Egyptian burial traditions, death doulas, and the nuances of a plane crash. The knowledge and accuracy made the story feel that much more real and deep… until it didn’t.
I really really wanted to give this book 5 stars but I felt like it got so caught up in showing off the technical aspects that the plot got lost in the details. So many times the extensive display of knowledge took me out of the story.
Overall it was an enjoyable read and I’m grateful to all the people who recommended it to me!
The literary parallels in this book are scrumptious! She’s an archaeologist researching on the Book of Two Ways - the first known map of the afterlife - while simultaneously reviewing the two ways her future could play out after surviving a near death experience.
Dawn also works as a death doula (like me!) and spends the book analyzing and working with death in one form or another. Either a the bedside with a dying client, or deep in the earth in a dusty Egyptian tomb studying the hieroglyphs and beliefs of people long-since passed.
It’s obvious throughout the novel that Jodi Picoult did thorough and extensive research into the passions of an archaeologist, ancient Egyptian burial traditions, death doulas, and the nuances of a plane crash. The knowledge and accuracy made the story feel that much more real and deep… until it didn’t.
I really really wanted to give this book 5 stars but I felt like it got so caught up in showing off the technical aspects that the plot got lost in the details. So many times the extensive display of knowledge took me out of the story.
Overall it was an enjoyable read and I’m grateful to all the people who recommended it to me!