My Sister’s Keeper

Author: Jodi Picoult

Rating: ⭐ 2/5

Date Read: 2014/12/05

Pages: 423

Well, that was even worse than I expected. I thought it would be a maudlin, guilty pleasure, but there was no pleasure at all (unless you count the occasional exasperated laughs that came out when the writing got particularly ridiculous). Picoult is so incapable of conveying anything through her writing that the only way the publisher could think to differentiate between the different narrators was to typeset their sections in different fonts. No joke.

If there’s any point to this drivel, it’s not the highfalutin moral one that I believe Picoult intends (I use the word “highfalutin” because I want to stick with simple words that Picoult would understand, though that’s likely unnecessary as textual evidence suggests that Picoult isn’t a big reader). Indeed, the only thing I got out of it was the recognition that life is way to short for this shit.