Review: My Sister's Keeper

My Sister's Keeper
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

The book is much better than the movie, actually you cannot compare the two. The book is richer and has more depth! At first I did not like Jodi's style of writing in this book, in particular how she keeps changing the narrator and shifting perspective & timeline in telling the story. To me it initially produced a jumbled mess and I was irritated by the shifting, never knowing whose side of the story would be told next. After a while I realised that this style was essential to the story and that it's what gives it depth and richness. As the reader you feel like you're traveling through one narrator's mind into the other. You get to know the story from their perspective. Get to fully understand why they do what they do, that way, you reserve judgement and focus rather on trying to understand.

Jodi's books always have an unexpected twist in the end. Because I had watched the movie countless times I assumed that I knew how this book would end! Imagine my shock then when I got to the last pages. It's heart wrenching, heartbreaking, sorrowful and it's life in its purest form. Very fair in its unfairness.

This book is about life and the choices we are faced with. It brings forth the fact that there are a lot more shades of grey to our daily lives than we care to admit. People are forced to make difficult choices all the time and sometimes we have no clue what the correct choice is, yet that does not absolve us from having to face the consequences of those difficult choices.

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