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Summary: Love everlasting or is it?
Review: This is a story with heart, love, character and suspense. The Pact is a story with many different views and many different turns. Picoult has the great ability to share her character feelings of horror and confusion as well as everlasting love. Emily Gold and Chris Harte are two teenagers that have known each other before they were born. Both their mothers stay at home moms and their fathers both doctors. They were meant to have everlasting love. Always playing together when they were children, Emily and Chris' relationship took a turn for the worst when Emily found out she was pregnant. Emily knew she couldn't tell Chris she was pregnant and the only solution she thought of was suicide. They had a Pact, which was to commit suicide together so nothing would be questioned. Would just be a show of true love for each other? Wrong, with Chris passed out and Emily slowly dying in his arms, both of their lives took a turn. Melanie Gold (Emily's mother) didn't want to help out Chris or the Hartes in any way. With her daughter dead and Chris in jail for murder, she knew he had planned to do it, once he found out Emily was pregnant. While Chris is fighting for his life against the state, he feels the only one that really loved his was Emily and she isn't even there to help him through it. This compelling story is not only a book but also a shock as to the realization of teenage couples of today's world.
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Summary: Wow!!
Review: This book is impossible to put down. It is well written and never drags. I just cannot stop raving about it and will definetly buy other books by this author. The cover of my book stated that this is now a Lifetime movie and I think it would be great in the theater. I am dying to see it!!
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Summary: Book club candidate!
Review: This was our book club book for November. It generated the most lively, involved discussion in months. Everyone know 'kids" like Chris and Emily and we are all parents, so could understand the anguish and angst experienced by both sets of parents. Also, there was a long thread about "how well do you really know people, even your own spouse". The fact that you can be close to someone yet they can still have many, many secrets you'll never know was an interesting sub-theme to this book. We also liked the fact that the author jumped almost seamlessly from person to person without the usually jarring feeling the reader experiences. I generally don't like books about suicide, but this one had a good voice.
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Summary: Trite and Unconvincing
Review: I read this book on the basis of the many glowing reviews previously written and I was very disappointed. The characters were unsympathetic and one-dimensional. I guess I don't understand the "small town" mentality but it seems a little sick that the parents never wanted anything more from their children than for them to fall in love and live happily ever after without ever experiencing what else is out there.The writing is also quite mediocre and the trial is not very credible. I'm very sorry to have wasted the time that I spent reading this book.
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Summary: A must read
Review: I read this book a few months ago and i cant even describe how great i thought it was. i read it for 3 days straight and i finished it wishing there were more. i'm always recommending it to all my friends. even thinking about the story now brings tears to my eyes. its one of those books that you read that really changes you. its so bizarre. i dont however think the lifetime movie based on this book did it any jutice at all. i was just horrified by how it included almost nothing from the book and so much was so drastically changed. i think a superb major motion picture could be made for "the pact". anyways if youre reading this, get this book now!
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Summary: An incrediable and toching story
Review: I just finished reading "The Pact" today. Altough it was extremly hard to end this book, I learned so much from it. Its amazing how much someone elses words can change and inspire you. Thats exactly what Jodi Picoult did. Her words touched not only my heart but my mind as well. She vividly captures the essence of each character, and by the end of the novel you know them as well as your own family. She has a uniqe sense of style in how she illistrates the minds and thoughts of each character. I think anyone who reads this book will walk away changed in some way. This book gave my mind many things to analyze and contemplate while I was reading it. It made me realize that you should cherish and enjoy the time you have with the ones you love, because they just might not be there tomorrow. The love that you see from each character in this book is different in many ways but yet it all ties in together. You also realize that the way a person seems to be isn't always the truth, and some times you don't see whats wrong until its to late. A good book like this dosn't come around that often and so I can honestly say that "The Pact" is not just a book I read, but its a book that i felt as well. I believe that anyone who reads this book will learn something they didn't know about themeselves. So to anyone who is thinking about reading "The Pact" its an excellent choice and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
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Summary: Wonderful Book
Review: I just received the book today and have been unable to put it down. I have seen the Movie made about it twice now and they both are wonderful. I would recommend this book. Its a Must Read!
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Summary: Great story
Review: I picked up this book for no particular reason, and I'm really glad that I did - I think I found a new author to read!
This was a moving story. And, while the action in the story revolved around the death of Emily, the story was really about the relationships between the characters!
All of the relationships - between family, friends, lovers, etc. were complicated, and very realistic.
This book was interesting because it was told in a very detailed way, without overdosing the reader with details. We got to know the characters, their strengths and weaknesses, and we got to see how they related to each other (and didn't relate).
It was sad to watch this "family" fall apart after the death of Emily, and it was even more tragic to read how terribly the families coped with it.
But, Picoult portrayed the relationships, and the emotions in a very realistic manner.
If you're picking this up to read a great mystery, don't bother - there isn't much suspense. But, this is a fantastic novel because it explores relationships, and families, and friendships, and how they change, survive and don't survive a real tragedy!
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Summary: OUTSTANDING!!! THIS OUGHT TO BE REQUIRED SCHOOL READING!!
Review: Absolutely masterfull. Moving, compelling, and thought-provoking. This ought to be read in high schools across the country as teen suicide becomes an increasingly, and more frighteningly realistic epidemic which must given our nation's attention. As a survivor of the suicide of a close teenage friend, I wish this novel, and the appropriate addition materials would find a place in the classrooms of schools today!!
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Summary: This book rocks!!!
Review: This book was so good that I read it two days--long book!!! I just had to see what happened. Kept me guessing and wrung me out. AWESOME The plot of the novel; the premise itself is so compelling that you don't really mind the "Lifetime movie moments" that do occur here and there. Ultimately, the premise and the story--the what will happen???--carries you through the story and past any defects in dialogue, etc.
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