The Pact

Ok, so I just finished The Pact. Jodi Picoult did not disappoint with this one. She did me proud especially since the past few books I've read have been duds.

The Pact by Jodi Picoult tells a story of two families whose lives are drastically changed after their children decide to take a suicide pact. Jodi is awesome with her ability to show how tragedies can make or break families. I found myself getting frustrated because I just wanted to skip to the end and find out what the real truth was from the night that changed everything.

This book brought soooo many questions into my head. The first thing I thought was how....how exactly do you decide on a suicide pact? I just don't see how you can be like "hey, I want to end it all" and then the other person says "Ok...I'll go with you."

Then, as I read deeper into the book, I was totally tripped out when the relationship between the two teenagers was explained. They were high school students, but they really lead an adult relationship. They spent like every waking moment together. I really don't know how to explain it, but as I read I just felt like their relationship was entirely too serious. I felt like the parents were ok with too much stuff. It was almost as if the teenagers had no boundaries to their relationship....which caused me to have more and more questions.

I can't begin to type all the questions I had because it would give away the book. There were three questions that I had throughout the entire book that still stuck in my mind after I finished the last page.

I wondered how do you go through such a big crisis? The very thing that makes a family whole is taken away....how do your survive? How does the FAMILY survive? Those questions still remains unanswered.

Would I recommend this book. Certainly. Without a doubt.

The next book on my list is Getting to Happy by Terry McMillan. I am actually surprised after all these years that Terry McMillan would decide to make a sequel to Waiting to Exhale. I expect good things. I loved the characters from Waiting to Exhale, and I am hoping that this will be a good read. I'll be writing about it soon. :-)