Definitely Not a Show-Stopper

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	• Mercy Jodi Picoult Washington Square Press, 2001 - 416 pages average customer review:based on 75 reviews view larger image
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Picoult is my favorite author. Her character development alone is worth buying this book for, and her topics are always thought provoking. In Mercy, I felt myself torn between the two sides of the story, and feeling the emotions of each character as the story unfolded. This is a great book! I liked My Sisters Keeper better, so if you have not read that yet, buy them both.

Definitely Not a Show-Stopper

Jamie MacDonald drives into the center of Wheelock, MA, and announces that he has killed his wife Maggie, whose body is in the car. Cameron MacDonald is the sheriff of Wheelock, and Jamie's cousin. Nevertheless, Cam arrests Jamie for murder one. Unbeknownst to anyone else in the town, Cam hires Jamie a lawyer when he finds out that Maggie was dying of cancer and that her murder was a mercy-killing.

At the same time, Cam becomes involved with a young woman who works in his wife's flower shop and begins an affair with her that threatens to shatter his reputation as sheriff, clansman, and husband.

I did not find this to be one of Picoult's better works. I was very frustrated by all of the Scottish clan details. It was extranious and unnecessary. I couldn't really connect to these characters, either. Cam just came off as a selfish jackass, and Jamie was an almost non-entity. I know Picoult is capable of much better than this, so I was very disappointed.

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Mercy

I am just beginning a romance with the novels written by Jodi Picoult. This one did not let me down.

This book details different types of relationships that each of us may or may not have experienced. There are questions that she poses, in the form of ideas and conversations between her characters that will not let your mind rest after reading this book. Every one of the books that I have read by her so far (The Pact, My Sister's Keeper, Salem Falls) have all left me wanting more. I share these books with my mother and we have discussions afterwards, sometimes going over some of the questions she poses for reading groups at the end of her novels. Since she covers, in detail, the gray areas between what seems to be black and white, there is much to be discussed. I have found her books to be thought provoking and entertaining at the same time. I hope you do too.

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Exploration of Love

Picoult displays her usual masterful prose in this deeply felt novel about the power of love. Jamie McDonald turns himself in to his cousin, Wheelock sheriff Cam McDonald, for the mercy killing of his terminally ill wife Maggie. Cam's wife Allie, the local florist, has never gotten over the fact that Cam was the golden boy in high school - while she was a nobody - and always feels she is not attractive or good enough for him. Picoult does the courtroom trial very well, but I was most fascinated by her exploration of Allie's low self esteem and her covetous obsession of Jamie's love for his dead wife.

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