Name: My Sister's Keeper
Rating: 3.977554179566563 (646 reviews)
ISBN: 9781416575245

Jodi Picoult

A Novel

My Sister's Keeper

A popular novel about a girl suing her parents because they want her to donate a kidney to her sister was named by the American Library Association as one of the top 10 books banned in 2009, with the novel being pulled from the shelves for a host of reasons, including homosexuality, sexually explicit material, religious viewpoint, drugs and suicide. Reprint. A best-selling book.

Renee Dick

Great book! Wanted to watch the movie, but after reading the book, I don't know. The emotions that the book stirred up in me were intense at times.

This book hurt, a lot! I liked writing style, I like the multiple POVs, it’s a very complex story and I’m still in two minds on what’s the right take away, the ending had me sobbing for quite a while, I couldn’t breathe a very insightful and impactful story of grief and love 

Kira Louise Morris

★★★★★ // very well-written and easily lets you empathize with the characters, even the less likeable ones. has an unexpected ending that is equally shocking and all sorts of heartbreaking.

Audrey Lord

I haven't even finished reading this book but after reading some reviews I'm furious. Some people can't appreciate a good story. "the end sucked" too bad. It's not your story you didn't write it. To me a sad ending is just how life is. Stories aren't ALL supposed to end well!

What got me first interested in this book was when I saw the movie years ago. Now, when I started reading this, I had forgotten everything that happened so the plot took me by surprise. I liked the lawyer setting of this and how it was all about making choices. The brief love story between Taylor and Kate gave me "The Fault in our Stars" vibes which I really loved. The second chance romance between Julia and Campbell was really a page-turner, you could definitely feel the tension between them since the first time they see each other again. The ending was quite shocking but I do understand the sentiment of it and I loved the monologue Kate has at the end about grief and how it fits itself into one's life.

Gabriella Parker

Belle

I never expected what happened at the end! A heart-wrenching story.

Ilona Labská 

I finished it in few hours. Amazing book, that draw you right into story and make you ponder about life...

Kaela Childers

Before I read this book, all I knew about it was that a girl had cancer, but there is so much more to it than that. This is Anna's story, but it's also Kate's, Campbell's, Julie's, Sara's, Brian's and Jesse's.
Anna says she just wants to be heard, but that's only part of the story. Sara was blind to her emotionally starving children, and to Kate's wishes, her world revolved around saving Kate. 
I liked reading all the character's POV's, which is one of the reasons I was so disappointed with the movie. It was so different! Especially the ending. 
I don't think I've ever read a book as intense as this one, I was an emotional wreck, especially after I watched the movie right after finishing the book. 
The ending of the book blindsided me, and made me want to scream and cry, but I wouldn't have wanted it any other way.

Jaymie Lemke

Allison Blakeley

good lord this book was too juicy! i couldn't put it down and ended up staying up well into the night just to see what happened. it's great for filling an evening of nothing to do, but be prepared, you'll totally want to finish it within a couple sittings.

Sarah Escorsa

A very nice read:) I really like the fact that Picoult tried to envision all aspects of the problem and that the viewpoints of all involved was expressed. Actually I was a bit bothered when I started reading and found out that each chapter was told by a different character but in the end it worked really well and added a lot to the book. The one thing that disappointed me though was the ending of the book. I was curious to find out what Picoult would come up with as a conclusion but this was just... I don't know how to word it really, it just somehow felt like an easy way out, or something out of a film... Still, this is a very good book and I understand why it's been such a success:)

Conceived to provide a bone marrow match for her leukemia-stricken sister, teenage Kate begins to question her moral obligations in light of countless medical procedures and decides to fight for the right to make decisions about her own body.

Flavia Louise

I bought this book for a dollar in a Half Priced Books sale while I was in the US last summer because I like the movie. 
Well the rating says it: I didn't like this book, I hated the ending, didn't like the writing style. So many cliches and the story was not enough to justify 500 pages.

Caroline Mao

NO ONE WARNED ME ABOUT THE ENDING AND NOTHING IS FAIR.

*cue disgusting sobbing noises*

Okay. Wow. What do I even say about this book? I started reading Jodi Picoult when House Rules happened to me - and yes, I do mean happened, because I may have been the one to pick it up but it crashed through my life and left the remnants of my heart scattered across the ground. I liked it, so I decided to pick up a book I'd actually heard of before - My Sister's Keeper. I was disappointed, which is to say I was heartbroken by this book and I wasn't supposed to be, damn it.

Aside from the ending - !heartbreaking! - everything else was heartbreaking, too. I appreciate Picoult's approach to people who aren't what society expects to be the norm - perfect able-bodied, neurotypical kids who smile when they're supposed to. Not to mention the book really made me think. I believe bodily autonomy supersedes every right you have, even the right to life, and this book hasn't changed that. I still believe that. But seeing the struggles of the Fitzgeralds, and trying to come up with a solution that wouldn't leave them in pieces? Well, I couldn't find it.

There were a couple things about this book I didn't like, such as the Campbell/Julia subplot. I didn't really find that interesting, because as Seven said, it's such an utter cliche. There was nothing about their relationship that I didn't find cliche. I also wish we could have gotten closer to Kate, but that's okay, and I feel like I was suddenly given a ton of insight into the way she works when (view spoiler)[Anna got up to the stand and started talking about what her sister thinks (hide spoiler)]. This insight also hurt my heart.

The characters in this were pretty well-rounded, I guess. Usually, in YA lit I don't find the parents too interesting, because they're not made out by the writer to be interesting, but Picoult doesn't do that. I liked both Brian and Sara (although I liked Emma and Henry from House Rules more). I liked Anna. I liked Jesse. Everything was beautiful.

To wrap up this review - this book wasn't perfect, but it was pretty damn close. I'm going to go find some tissues now and blow my nose.

Georgia Carr

This book is extremely good and extremely sad, all at the same.

Andrea

A master piece. 
I started to love Jodi Picoult with this book, I only read it because I loved the movie. But the book is better than the movie. Now, I hate the movie, I hate how it has changed all the things and the feeling.
I've chosen four stars because I would like to see more about Jesse, I think that he have had a lot of problems, and when I finished the book I really wanted to know more about Jesse.

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