I don't know why each day this week has included the day of the week in the title and alliteration but it's continuing. Today I am almost reviewing a book...but I'm not as it's not Thursday...and because I can't review things to save my life.
I finished reading My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult today. It was the second time I've read it and it's one of my top favourite books and it has been since I first read it. I love it. Yet I also absolutely hate it. I do with all of Jodi Picoult books. I always hate the endings of her books. My Sisters Keeper is no exception, the ending is awful and horrible and mean and I hate it. But it is so much better than the film. My mum called me heartless because I didn't cry when I watched the film. Before I watched it, I found out that the other person dies at the end. You would figure, reading or watching, that the girl with cancer dies. Out of all the characters, you almost expect her to die. So watching the film, I was prepared for this. The film bases more upon the dying sister compared to the book which focuses' more on the court case and the other sister. And then she fucking dies, 10 pages before the end of the book after wining the rights to her own body. After going through a court case doing this because her sister, the one with cancer, doesn't want to be doing this anymore, doesn't want to be alive with cancer. She wants out. So her sister fights for her rights to her body so she can say no to the kidney transplant so her sister can die. But no, 10 pages before the end there is a car accident which you don't find out much about but she dies and then her sister gets her kidney and is perfectly fine years later. At the end of the book, the last chapter, is told from the POV of the cancer sister. None of the other chapters are from her POV and I always want to scream at her that she should have died, that the other one shouldn't have. I cried both times reading the book. I hate it. Yet it is really really good.
I am sorry for giving away the whole end of the book but it's still brilliant and you should read it. I want to know if you feel the same, that you both love and hate it.
xox
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