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!

michelleh83:

Whats TBR? x

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

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!