I've finished another book, a little later than I had previously expected. I mean I am home from school for Christmas, but the problem was that I've been super busy lately helping prepare for Christmas, that I haven't had much time for myself to just sit down and read (welcome to the real world, right?). Anyway, I've finished another Jodi Picoult novel: Keeping Faith. It was good, but I wouldn't really say it was one of my favourites. And it definitely didn't have the twists and turns that some of her other novels did. I do like the premise behind the novel, and as usual it was well developed.
The book is about a family that is getting divorced, and how a little girl develops an imaginary friend who is believed to be God. It follows this little girl and her mother as the media tries to exploit her. The father finds out and then starts to sue for custody, and then it all escalates from there. The idea of whether or not the child is actually talking to God is a good one, and is what drew me to the novel in the first place. It's hard to decide whether or not to believe her, or if they are making it all up. Picoult also developed a lot of the characters well so that the father's lawyer was one that I particularly couldn't stand and if I had met him in real life, I might actually have tried to smack him up side the head because he's that much of an irritant. I always like when characters seem real and have those annoying traits, it makes the story so much more believable.
Anyway, I'm going to try and decide which book to start next. Until next time, Happy Reading!
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