01.Aug.2007 The Pact by Jodi Picoult

Chris Harte and Emily Gold have been together since they were born. The parents are best friends and neighbors. They’re inseparable, like two sides of a coin, like brother and sister, then, as lovers. The girl is dead on the first page.

It’s suicide pact gone wrong. Or is it? ;) The guy is alive and therefore charged with murder because he’s the only at the scene of the “crime”.

This is the second book from Jodi Picoult that I read. It’s extremely difficult to find her books in the library. They’re always out! I enjoyed this book, if I can say enjoy. A lot of times I felt bad. I hated Emily. I totally didn’t understand her personality. She’s suicidal, I think that’s just probably the fact. You either are suicidal or aren’t. Obviously I’m not, that’s why I couldn’t get it. When you’re not suicidal, no matter how bad things are you would just find a way to survive, it’s instinctive. Anyhow it’s quite an insight to teenage suicide issue.

There were points in the book where I found myself really getting it, the words, the love, the pain. Especially Chris, he’s almost alive and his words made me all teary. But at some other points I found some things not quite believable.

I hated Emily. What a selfish b*tch. I can’t get my compassion for her. I think suicide is totally a selfish act. I can’t help feeling the lost though, as if I’m one of the characters in the book, like Chris or the parents, losing someone very important. Even at the very end, I still can’t believe Em has really gone and is not coming back.

Well, a good story is one that still lingers, even after you finish the book, movie, or game. As if the characters are really alive, and you think sometimes about how they’re doing. That’s what happened to me. I was still thinking about them a few days after I finished the book. The author is successful in bringing the characters to life in this case.

~Finished on 21 March 2007

Rating: 3.5 out of 5