The Pact: A Love Story

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

This Paperback Book item from Harper Perennial was reviewed on 6-Oct-2008.

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1) Paperback Book The Pact: A Love Story by Harper Perennial. The Pact, was my first Jodi Picoult book that I´ve read, so I wasn´t sure what to expect about her writing style. I was definitely taken for several loops and twists while reading this book. I did enjoy the book overall it just left me with so many unanswered questions about the characters and wondering why some of the plot was put in the storyline.

The Pact, is a love story about two teenagers, Chris and Emily, who have grown up together. Their families lived next to one another and had a close friendship, well relationship with one another. The book starts off with a bang! Right away Emily is dead from a gun shot wound and Chris is there by her side. The only question now is what truly happened? Throughout the book you learn bits and pieces from the past while experiencing what is happening in the present. The author does a good job at leaving you at the edge of your seat, wanting to continue reading on and on to figure out what is happening. Once you do come to the end of the story and find out some answers, you will still have so many questions running through your head. I feel as if the ending of this book, it almost leaves you with a whole new set of questions. I gave the book 3 stars out of 5 because I felt as if Picoult could have either made some more connections with the misleading plotlines she put in the story, or she should have just left some of them out. Overall, I would say if you have the time to read this book would be a nice choice, but it wouldn´t be one of my top choices.
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2) Paperback Book The Pact: A Love Story by Harper Perennial. I have read The Pact twice and both times felt that Emily was being
molested by her father.
This explains her suicide, her secret she would not share with Chris,
her obvious depression as a result and her difficulties with sex.
She was molested by the ´kid´ at the fast food restaurant but as I
read and re-read this book I do feel there was molestation by her
father. Hard to believe because he was a likable character.
Alas, he was not.
A good read and hard to put down.¤

3) Paperback Book The Pact: A Love Story by Harper Perennial. I read a few of the reviews (not all of them) and didn´t see anyone who pointed this out, so just wanted to leave my understanding of the book in case it helps anyone else.... sorry if it´s a repeat.

I think the main reason Emily wanted to die was because of Chris. She started feeling more like Chris was her brother and was having difficulty having romantic feelings towards him. She knew that she loved Chris and wouldn´t be able to not have him in her life if she continued living. However, she also knew that it would break Chris´ heart, and their ability to have any kind of relationship, if she told him that she wasn´t ´in´ love with him. She figured it would be easier on him to think that she died having the same feelings for him as he had for her, than to know she was alive and, given the choice, would rather just be friends when he loved her with all his heart.

Having said that, I don´t think it´s necessarily realistic that someone would go to the extreme of committing suicide for this reason. You would think that if she loved Chris that much that in order to spare him pain, she was willing to die, that her feelings for him would be stronger than just that of a brother-sister relationship. And that she would want to be alive so that she could be with him. However, that´s just the feeling I get from the book.¤

4) Paperback Book The Pact: A Love Story by Harper Perennial. "The Pact" is an amazing book about two young teens and their stuggles in life to meet up to their expectations while telling the tale with a well written perspective.
Two teens who both have been raised together truly love each other, but in what way? How do they deal with all the pressure?
There is so much going on in this book I can´t even begin to tell you.
It´s just so good..
Just buy it :)¤

5) Paperback Book The Pact: A Love Story by Harper Perennial. I found "The Pact" a readable page-turner, but I have to agree that its main failing is the central plotline of privileged, high-achieving schoolgirl deciding to end it all, as she feels trapped by parental expectations and her childhood love. This scenario is wildly implausible, to say the least, as someone as educated as Emily would surely have realised there were conventional ways to solve her dilemma and would have sought help accordingly. Picoult does not adequately explore the psychological WHY someone as privileged as Emily felt that suicide was the only way out. This is a highly-educated girl from a monied background we are talking about here, one who was considering attending the Sorbonne in Paris, for heaven´s sake. Why would someone on the cusp of such a promising future decide that suicide was a better option? The character development of Emily was not thorough enough to explain her irrational actions. Another downfall of the book was the extremely unlikable character of Chris, Emily´s childhood love, and the one-dimensional nature of the two sets of parents involved. All in all, a worthy effort, but a far-fetched plot, poor character development and an overly contrived ending let it down.¤

6) Paperback Book The Pact: A Love Story by Harper Perennial. Friendship, loyalty, lifelong love -- and teenage suicide. A riveting, timely, and terrifying novel from an acclaimed writer who skillfully intertwines the intimate perceptions of Anne Tyler with the dramatic tension of John Grisham

The Golds and the Hartes, neighbors for eighteen years, have always been inseparable. So have their children-and it´s no surprise that in high school Chris and Emily´s friendship blossoms into something more. But the bonds of family, friendship, and passion-which had seemed so indestructible -- suddenly threaten to unravel in the wake of unexpected tragedy.

When midnight calls from the hospital come in, no one is ready for the truth. Emily is dead at seventeen from a gunshot wound to the head. There´s a single unspent bullet in the gun that Chris pilfered from his father´s cabinet-a bullet that Chris tells police he intended for himself. But a local detective has doubts about the suicide pact that Chris describes.

This extraordinary, heart-rending novel asks questions that every parent faces: How much do we know about our children? Our friends?
What if . . .? As its chapters unfold, alternating between an idyllic past and an unthinkable present, The Pact paints an indelible portrait of families in anguish . . . and creates an astonishingly suspenseful courtroom drama, as Chris finds himself on trial for murder.

It´s rare to find a writer who combines Alice Hoffman´s gift for evoking everyday life in pellucid prose with a remarkable ability to create a legal page-turner that will keep you up all night reading, but this is such a book. The Pact rings true: wonderfully observed, truly moving, frightening, and utterly impossible to put down.¤

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