Just Finished Reading: The Pact- Jodi Picoult

Just Finished Reading is kind of my way of telling about a book I just finished (oh the irony) and my feelings towards and about it. It's not really a formal review nor does it follow traditional guidelines. I'd say it's more of a way to kind of "express". Haha I can hear you groan. Who likes reading/listening/enduring others' expressions anyway? I guess I'll go against the grain and throw it out there. Read it if you like, pass it by if you like. It's all relative. Enjoy :)



The Pact left me dizzy as I tried to pry reality from fiction after I finished this book. I'm most definitely a crier when I read but this time what burned my cheeks and stained my lips were not my own tears, but a whirlwind of emotion derived from every character that wrought a devastating plague in this moving tale of question; how far would you go for love? From the opening of the cover to clutching the book in my grasps as I let my head hang in a triumphant defeat, I was held short of breath and pleading for an answer to "why?"; yielding the conclusion of it all to ring hot in my mind. I find myself trying so hard to conjure up a description of my feelings during and after I read this love story, but as the picture of love, hate, despair, loss, turbulence and blinding fate are painted in my head I bite my tongue; my watered-down description would do no worldly justice to the actual progression of events that procured a "storm" of this nature. Left with my soul aching, wanting so desperately to believe that anything so heavy with uncertainty never actually has to be endured; I silently exhale only to immediately be infused with doubt. Jodi Picoult keeps your heart from page one and returns it to you with a new tactility on life; a new place where it beats for far more than you thought it could. I give it 5/5 and I suggest it to anyone who wants to REALLY see what they're capable of feeling because I guarantee after this... you will never be quite the same