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I like Jodi Picoult. I really enjoyed the other two books I've read of hers, and . I was hoping to like this book as much as I had the others. Again she was attacking a sensitive issue and trying to give a voice to all sides of the argument, but something was lacking this time around. Perhaps because one side just wasn't as strong? I can't quite place my finger on it what was lacking this time around. I think it mainly was because this book was so similar to My Sister's Keeper that it just felt like an unncessary rewrite of it.

What didn't help the book was also the amount of characters talking. In her usual style, allowing the reader to hear all sides of the story, Picoult writes from multiple characters perspectives. She stretched herself too far this time. Because certain characters had the same opinions it just became a rehashing of stuff we already knew. Some characters were just as not as sympathetic or as interesting as others so that just dragged the book out a little further. Also all the baking references and recipes, though I could see what Picout was trying to do, didn't push the book along or enhance it at all.

I still read it pretty fast though because the whole idea behind the book was fascinating and I wanted to see where it would end. Picoult hadn't disappointed me in her last two endings, and I figured she would again do some kind of unique twist ending. She did. Kind of. All in all it was the subject of the book itself, the controversy of parents suing for a "wrongful birth" and the character of Amelia that kept this book alive and really kept me reading. I wish Picoult had cut out the lawyer Marin's seperate storyline and had focused more on Amelia's struggle and story.

One last thing. Reading this, I couldn't help picturing it all as a Lifetime movie. The court scenes, the dialogue, the angst- it all fit too perfectly and is ready for a made-for-tv-movie. Am I right?