This is the first time I've posted in this section - so bear with me if it's not great.

I read Mercy and Vanishing Acts after seeing how popular Picoult is with readers on this site, but I was starting to think that she wasn't for me.  I'd enjoyed them, but wasn't hooked on her as an author.  Then I saw My Sisters Keeper in the library......

Anna was a "designer" baby - conceived with the intent to save her sister who has a terminal illness.  By the time she's 13 she has undergone numerous procedures and operations each time her sister Kate has relapsed.  She feels that she has no life that is unconnected to her sisters, and when talk of donating a kidney arises she makes the awful decision to sue her parents for the right to her own body.

I loved this from start to finish - I really felt for Anna, while swaying between sympathy and loathing for the mother, and I never saw the ending coming.

I was going to stop reading Picoult, but this has made me want more!  Roll on the film!

It is a great read...it appears to be the favourite of many of the JP fans...

This is one of my favourite ones (Salem Falls came a close second).  I cried throughout which has never happened to me before.  That nding was a complete turn around and if they change it in the film it will be ruined.

Haven't read this one but Salem Falls is my fav so far....

I have fallem falls and have not read it yet so my sisters keeper is my fav JP book so far, itsjust so sad and makes you wonder how often this may happen in 'real life'. I thought plain truth was a fab JP book too.

I wil bump this one up my TBR

Whats TBR? x

michelleh83:

Whats TBR? x

It means To Be Read.  There is a whole section on peoples lists on the forum.

Thank you gemsey. x

I am not keen on jodi picoult

This was the first book of hers that I read, so I have been hooked ever since. 

I found it very emotional and couldn't put it down. I did not see the end coming at all, it was such a shock! 

I'm a big Jodi fan. I've read all of hers so far except Vanishing Acts which is on my TBR. My faves have to be Perfect Match and Picture Perfect and the ones I've liked least are Mercy and Tenth Circle. All the rest have been excellent though.

This was the 1st i read, i think it was also one of my 1st swaps! lol. i loved it, i cried a lot, you feel for them all, you can understand all sides but didn't see the ending coming and cried some more!

oh my god just finished it and did not expect the ending thoroughly engrossing read.... what to read next mmm

Not many books make me cry but this was one of them.