The Pact: A Love Story

Author - Jodi Picoult ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Mass Market Paperback Book item from Avon was reviewed on 28-Jul-2008.

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1) Mass Market Paperback Book The Pact: A Love Story by Avon. This book was really a good read, very different from any other books i´ve read. I have read several of her other books since then and have been very pleased with her work.¤

2) Mass Market Paperback Book The Pact: A Love Story by Avon. First of all, I *hate* that so many of the other reviews basically give away the story / punchline.

Okay, now: I read (actually listened to the recorded format of) "My Sister´s Keeper" before this one. Maybe it was just because of that experience with Ms. Picoult´s writing, but I "got" this one WAAAAAAY early. It was like cassette three (out of 12, again recorded format) that I had the ending figured out. And therefore, all through the last nine tapes, I kept looking for the "hook", the surprise that was going to throw me off of what I had guessed, and it never came. So that left me REALLY disappointed with "The Pact".

I think the "Emily" character is developed FAR too little. As other reviewers have said (and I can repeat, without giving away "spoilers"), I just didn´t buy what was given as her reasons for being suicidal. It just wasn´t it. Anyone who has ever been depressed or suicidal can easily read this book and KNOW that "Emily" isn´t it -- and most likely, have a good idea that Ms. Picoult doesn´t really understand depression or what it is like to be suicidal (and lucky for her!, though perhaps too bad for her books).

In any case, "The Pact" by itself, is pretty good, and well worth the time to read/listen. If, however, you have been through "My Sister´s Keeper", I would say don´t bother with this -- the parallels are too obvious, the plot is (perhaps) a giveaway, and the ending is likely to be disappointing. And, without going into details, I found there were a LOT of holes in the plot line -- dots that never got connected, or just seemed too disjointed, out of place, or otherwise didn´t make sense.

Just one other random thought: the picture/art on the cover, to me, REALLY doesn´t seem to fit the book; and for that matter, neither does the title -- "The Pact"?!?? Puh-leeeze! I don´t know what else to suggest, but "The Pact" is woefully inadequate.

Still, if this is your first Picoult novel, go for it! She´s a good writer!¤

3) Mass Market Paperback Book The Pact: A Love Story by Avon. I loved this book since the first page. It sicked me right in. It was beautiful and ugly. I felt something severed from my own life. Jody has such a way of developing characters. This may be my favorite Piccoult book even though I bawled my way through it.¤

4) Mass Market Paperback Book The Pact: A Love Story by Avon. Picoult does it again! This story is beautifully written about two young teenagers who are in love. One dies abruptly and it is a toss-up between if she was suicidal, or if her boyfriend (and long time best friend/ soulmate) murdered her. This story is very emotional- very forthright and keeps you reading and reading because you simply MUST FIND OUT what happened.
Again, as in all of Picoult´s novels, it is a very controversial topic, and there is much lawyer/ cop dialogue that may get your mind bungled- however it is such a poetic story that you will not even hesitate to keep going.
Personally, I fell in love with the main male character and by the end of the book, I HATED the female lead. (I cannot disclose any more details for fear of spoiling the story)
Keep your mind open and try to remember what it was like to be COMPLETELY in love. If we were all so lucky, I truly doubt there would be any murder/ hate/ heinous crimes in this world.
MUST READ- MUST MUST MUST READ.¤

5) Mass Market Paperback Book The Pact: A Love Story by Avon. The story was really good. It was very deep and detailed. The kind of story that you don´t want to stop reading. Jodi Picoult is a great writer and I am starting to read a third book by her. I highly recommend her books and give this story five stars.¤

6) Mass Market Paperback Book The Pact: A Love Story by Avon.

Until the phone calls came at three o´clock on a November morning, the Golds and their neighbors, the Hartes, had been inseparable. It was no surprise to anyone when their teenage children, Chris and Emily, began showing signs that their relationship was moving beyond that of lifelong friends. But now seventeen-year-old Emily is dead—shot with a gun her beloved and devoted Chris pilfered from his father´s cabinet as part of an apparent suicide pact—leaving two devastated families stranded in the dark and dense predawn, desperate for answers about an unthinkable act and the children they never really knew.

From New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult—one of the most powerful writers in contemporary fiction—comes a riveting, timely, heartbreaking, and terrifying novel of families in anguish and friendships ripped apart by inconceivable violence.

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