The Pact (original 1998; edición 2009)

Good book. So sad but most of her books are sad and realistic in ways- capturing the human feeling. ( )

Truly a blissful yet heart wrenching love story. My first Picoult and I was moved to tears. So surreal especially when the tragedy happened, Emily being the selfish one and Chris being the willing one.

Here's my full review:
http://www.sholee.net/2017/02/mpov-pact.html ( )

Fantastic, brilliant and gripping ( )

This is a review I wrote in 2007:

**`Do you know what it's like to love someone so much, that you can't see yourself without picturing her?**

`Do you know what it's like to love someone so much, that you can't see yourself without picturing her? Or what it's like to touch someone, and feel like you've come home?' (Chris)

Chris and Emily knew each other their whole lives. They grew up living next door to each other, were soul mates, best friends, inseparable... like twins. As teenagers their love for each other developed into something more and they became girlfriend & boyfriend - exactly what their parents had hoped would happen. They are bright, still at school, with promising futures ahead of them. But then Em is found dead, shot with a single bullet, and Chris with her - injured but very much alive. So what really happened that night? Could Chris have pulled the trigger? Or was this an awful suicide pact gone very wrong?

If you've forgotten what it was like to be seventeen years old, then read this, and remember. Full of passion, emotion and tortuous decisions - another brilliant novel from Jodi Picoult. ( )

This was really hard to read as I have two teens and two pre-teens right now, so a lot of the content was a bit close to home. It was well written, although there was a little crossover with the later book 'Nineteen Minutes' which I had read before this one. ( )