d_jemme 's review for:

Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult

2.0

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Star ratings are so arbitrary, but this one, as a page-turning piece of fiction, gets three stars from me. I could not put it down - I've ever actually read anything by Jodi Picoult before and judging by how many books she cranks out I suspect it's probably as formulaic as any of Boujalian's books, but I'm always attracted to stories about religious ecstasy and grabbed it in a thrift store. It follows a fairly standard popular fiction formula - mystery until the last chapter, major climax, and done. I enjoyed the fact that it asked some deep questions about faith and belief and left the door open on that aspect of it all.