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Book Review of The Pact: A Love Story

The Pact: A Love Story
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a flight attendant recommended this to me when i was reading my sister's keeper by jodi picoult. i really liked that book and she said this was great too...or not.

the story is of two teens who were born six months apart and gew up together. they were brother and sister, best friends, and became lovers. one night the two of them go on a date and emily ends up dead. chris has a few stitches from a fall.

chris is arrested for the murder of emaily though he says it was a suicide pact. no one is quite sure what happened that night.

the story is told by time. some chapters in the present-chris' trial, what his parents are going through, etc. some chapters as the couple was growing up.

i think it coldve been a good story-it has a good premise, but it was way too long, very boring at times, and i just couldnt get through it fast enough. i kept putting it down and was forced to finish it when someone requested it.

id planned on reading more of jodi picoult's books but now im not so sure.