Rachel B. (travnray) reviewed on 7/9/2014 + 182 more book reviews

okay lots of spoilers here. I just can't help talking about it as if I were sitting in book club:

~I really didn't like the side story for a very long time, but absolutely came to appreciate (most of it) at the end. I hated that it didn't have an ending.
~I had no idea what the subject matter was going to be, and I am pretty tenderhearted and would have skipped this one had I known in advance that it was about the halacaust.
~I totally loved the parts about Minka and that's it. I hated the ending, (which tends to be the way it is with Picoult, You love it or you hate it.)Really?? Minka dies in her sleep??? And Sage decides to fulfil that ridiculous and totally unbelievable and unrealistic request??? What the heck??? And I hated Sage's weirdo issues. They seemed SO trivial and lame after reading about Minka for 300 pages. I liked it at first, but at the end... no.

I'm glad I read it. It was so engaging, I could not put it down, I loved the realness of Darija, and their friendship, I cried actual tears when the nephew died, and grieved with the father as he died right along, day by day after realizing what happened to his wife. I loved the innocense of Sage after going with her sister to try to get her husband released. And I loved that the sister took her death into her own hands.

It definitely got my emotions high.

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