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Originally Posted by yngsto6  I absolutely hated the ending of the book. She just gave up in my opinion -- possibly to meet a publisher's deadline? I read it for a book group I was in years ago and now my regular book group is reading it. I can't bring myself to reread it. It had great potential but totally failed. I wanted to see how the family was going to deal with the decsions that were made. You could totally understand both the parent's reasoning for what they did as well as the sister wanting control over her own body. THe ending was the biggest cop-out ever written. |
I totally agree about the ending of the book. I *love* Jody Picoult's writing but she so often falls apart on her endings. The only books I felt held up through the endings were _Nineteen Minutes_, _Keeping Faith_, _Second Glance_ ( I *highly* recommend this book!) and, for the most part, _Change Of Heart_. The ending of _The Pact_ was even more of a copout than the ending of _My Sister's Keeper_, something the author actually addressed in the Afterword section of _The Pact_. Now that I know the ending of My Sister's Keeper was changed for the movie I will make an effort to see it once it's out on dvd :-)