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tessleslie 's review for:
Keeping Faith
by Jodi Picoult
Admittedly, I read reviews on GoodReads after beginning this book and was a little nervous and ashamed to be reading what so many considered “beach literature”—and I think that was because I absolutely was loving it.
I loved how Picoult used details to build a silent case against Mariah that she was in fact suffering from that disease Colin’s lawyer accused her of having. The way Faith said God smelled like oranges and then Kenzie realized Mariah uses a citrus perfume; how the only time Faith talks in her own chapters about feeling pain is when she doesn’t feel it at all but pretends to so that her mom will cuddle with her; how only Mariah’s thoughts can be discerned by her being the only character who’s sections are in first person, the way the book ends and Faith continues to talk to God as she can feel her mother smiling.
The book was honestly incredibly compelling and kept me turning the page non-stop. It’s a book I would read again to try to find more details that build both cases about Mariah.
I loved how Picoult used details to build a silent case against Mariah that she was in fact suffering from that disease Colin’s lawyer accused her of having. The way Faith said God smelled like oranges and then Kenzie realized Mariah uses a citrus perfume; how the only time Faith talks in her own chapters about feeling pain is when she doesn’t feel it at all but pretends to so that her mom will cuddle with her; how only Mariah’s thoughts can be discerned by her being the only character who’s sections are in first person, the way the book ends and Faith continues to talk to God as she can feel her mother smiling.
The book was honestly incredibly compelling and kept me turning the page non-stop. It’s a book I would read again to try to find more details that build both cases about Mariah.