A few years ago I swore off Jodi Picoult. I loved My Sister's Keeper, Nineteen Minutes, and Plain Truth. After those I started to think they were all the same. Her writing was always the same. But, somehow I was in the library and picked this up on audiobook. I thought I would give her another chance to wow me. Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, I was let down. I finished the book thinking SO WHAT?? This book is based upon the controversial topic of whether or not to take loved ones off of life support if there is little to no chance of life without machines. Basically, take that topic and put it into every other Picoult book.Not to say this topic is not interesting, but her books are just not the page turners they once were for me. I'm obviously not the best person to review a Picoult book because I have a bias, so here's her synopsis from her website if you are a Picoult fan:
Edward Warren, 23, has been living in Thailand for five years, a
prodigal son who left his family after an irreparable fight with his
father, Luke. But he gets a frantic phone call: His dad lies comatose in
a NH hospital, gravely injured in the same accident that has also
injured his younger sister Cara.
Cara, 17, still holds a grudge against her brother, since his
departure led to her parents’ divorce. In the aftermath, she’s lived
with her father – an animal conservationist who became famous after
living with a wild wolf pack in the Canadian wild. It is impossible for
her to reconcile the still, broken man in the hospital bed with her
vibrant, dynamic father.
With Luke’s chances for recovery dwindling, Cara wants to wait for a
miracle. But Edward wants to terminate life support and donate his
father’s organs. Is he motivated by altruism, or revenge? And to what
lengths will his sister go to stop him from making an irrevocable
decision?
LONE WOLF looks at the intersection between medical science and moral
choices. If we can keep people who have no hope for recovery alive
artificially, should they also be allowed to die artificially? Does the
potential to save someone else’s life with a donated organ balance the
act of hastening another’s death? And finally, when a father’s life
hangs in the balance, which sibling should get to decide his fate?
-Jacqueline
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