oh man that book pissed me off. there's also the plot bit that the seizure lawyer? COULDN'T HAVE HAD A DRIVER'S LICENSE. Like. it's not allowed. ever. So the car crash is even more of a crazy angry asspull that book pissed me off.
You know, something was bothering me about that the whole time, but I couldn't put my finger on what. You're totally right, though. Seizure dog or no seizure dog, he would never have been allowed to drive. But who needs reality when you can throw a juicy tragic curveball? *rolls eyes*
The whole lawyer subplot annoyed me, actually. High school sweethearts still hung up on each other after 15 years? The stupid thing with the lawyer telling jokes about the dog just so Picoult could pull a big dramatic reveal in the courtroom? Up until the ending, it was the weakest part of the book.
The whole book - it's fun to read the lower reviews for it on amazon.com, because apparently the whole thing is really flimsy put together - the medicine, too - but the seizure-driving thing just made me go 8| what
I agree that the whole lawyer plot was pretty damn ridiculous, also. But see the book needed ~~~~~drama~~~~~
Because of course there wasn't enough drama already, what with one daughter dying, and the other suing her mother, and a pyromaniac son stealing cars and burning down buildings to get his father's attention, and so on and so forth...
From perusing the other reviews on Goodreads, it looks like about a third of the people who read the book had this same reaction.
So you've liked her other books? I thought Nineteen Minutes had the same problem, albeit on a lesser scale (I rolled my eyes at that one, but it didn't make me actively angry), so I am wary. Any recs?
I haven't read Nineteen Minutes so I can't offer an opinion, but it does seem that a lot of her books have that eleventh-hour twist, which might work sometimes and not others. I liked Plain Truth, one of her most famous books.
Didn't I warn you about this book? I know I delivered a nearly identical rant about this book to someone recently (and I read the darn thing years ago). Unfortunately, in my opinion, most of her other books are similarly engagingly written but have similarly awful "twist" endings and similarly violate the rules of logic and/or the legal system.
Someone did warn me that the ending was problematic. I can't remember if it was you or bottle_of_shine; maybe it was both. I'd already bought the book before then, so I figured I'd give it a try anyway. It couldn't be *that* bad, right? But as it turns out...
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The whole lawyer subplot annoyed me, actually. High school sweethearts still hung up on each other after 15 years? The stupid thing with the lawyer telling jokes about the dog just so Picoult could pull a big dramatic reveal in the courtroom? Up until the ending, it was the weakest part of the book.
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I agree that the whole lawyer plot was pretty damn ridiculous, also. But see the book needed ~~~~~drama~~~~~
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I like Picoult, but yeah, that ending pissed me off.
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So you've liked her other books? I thought Nineteen Minutes had the same problem, albeit on a lesser scale (I rolled my eyes at that one, but it didn't make me actively angry), so I am wary. Any recs?
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