I didn't blame Sandy one darn bit for spotting "The Pact" in the front seat of my car and saying "Jodi Picoult!?" ... I sort of swore off her books after traveling through date rape, school shootings, capital punishment and having kids for their organs. Reading her stuff is like eating candy (in my case candy corn), once you start one you can't put it down and you feel really sort of sick to your stomach that you committed so much time and energy to the endeavor. This one is about the shooting death of a teenage girl, but was it a double suicide pact with her beloved boyfriend gone wrong because he wimped out before he could pull the trigger on himself or did he kill her? Like all of her books there is tension between parents and families, a huge trial with a prosecutor who is very cool and very flawed... she always has the surprise ending that never quite satisfies or wraps things up in the right way. Waste of a book reading week.. oh well, I only have about 40 weeks and 40 books to go!!
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