This book was recommended to me by a friend. I began reading it on an airplane and feel I should have stopped after about 30 minutes when I sensed this wasn't going to be anything very uplifting. Because it was a long flight I kept reading. The flight was just as long on the way home, so I read.
Whereas the author writes with an easy -to -read type of style, I did not appreciate the constant back and forth between past and present. And I'm sure she was trying to be accurate with the correct names of treatments, meds, disease terminology, etc., but it got to be too much.
I lost a brother to leukemia just under 3 years ago. My other brother's wife died of metastatic melamona nearly 1 year to the day after his death. If you have had recent illness or death in the family, I would stay away from this book. The ending is not only heart wrenching, but depressing. Yes, sometimes life sucks, and this is not what you should read if you've gone through tough times recently. |
My Sister's Keeper: A Novel Books In Print, Audio Books.