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nella580 's review for:
Keeping Faith
by Jodi Picoult
Although I liked this book simply because it was a Jodi Picoult book, it wasn't her best work. So much of the story was awkwardly paced and just plain weird.
First, Mariah, the mother, goes from being a terrible and unlikeable character to mother lioness in the blink of an eye, which isn't believable. I get that Picoult was trying to show the contrasts of who Mariah was with who she finally became, but it was too drastic a change to happen so suddenly.
Second, I HATE stories where the romance comes out of nowhere and the reader is left wondering why the two people were drawn together in the first place. That's what happens here. "I'm in love with you," is proclaimed and all I could think of was, "Why?" Again, it's a 0 to 60 transition with nothing to back it up.
Then throw in the usual Picoult formula of courtroom drama, controversy, "what do you belive?" of it all, blah blah blah, and there you have Keeping Faith. Fun, but not the best.
First, Mariah, the mother, goes from being a terrible and unlikeable character to mother lioness in the blink of an eye, which isn't believable. I get that Picoult was trying to show the contrasts of who Mariah was with who she finally became, but it was too drastic a change to happen so suddenly.
Second, I HATE stories where the romance comes out of nowhere and the reader is left wondering why the two people were drawn together in the first place. That's what happens here. "I'm in love with you," is proclaimed and all I could think of was, "Why?" Again, it's a 0 to 60 transition with nothing to back it up.
Then throw in the usual Picoult formula of courtroom drama, controversy, "what do you belive?" of it all, blah blah blah, and there you have Keeping Faith. Fun, but not the best.