The Pact - Jodi Picoult

The Author Jodi Picoult is a 41 year old American author, who has so far written 14 novels. She studied creative writing as a student, but did not take up writing full time until she was pregnant with her first child, in 1992. She has recieved several writing awards (New England Bookseller Award, Bool Browse Diamond Award and Waterstones' Author of the Year UK Award among others,) but it was her novel "My Sister's Keeper" that shot her to fame in the UK. This book was listed as a Richard & Judy best read of the year 2005, and also nominated for a British Book Award. The Pact First published in 1998, it was not particularly ...  Read the complete review

The Pact by Jodi Picoult was a very fast moving story to read. It's an exhilarating story, which moved me to tears. The characters in the book were very real to me and I thought that the story could have been a true one. The story line of this book is mainly based on two families who lived next door to each other for eighteen years. They shared everything together. Chris and Emily their children grew up together and their friendship grows into love, which is no surprise to their families and everyone around them. Then one day there is a shot to Emily's head and Chris is accused of murdering her. The upshot is, the Hartes and Golds have to face every parent's ...  Read the complete review

Jodi Picoult has a lot to answer for. Her books are eating into my life, and the reason for this is that she really does have the knack of telling a good story. Having read a couple of her books, which dealt with questions of morality, and relationships between parents and children, I wanted to read something that dealt again with morality, though this time with the relationship between parent and adolescent, and this book seemed to be offering exactly what I was looking for. The story that is presented here tells of two couples, living in a relatively exclusive area in New Hampshire, and being neighbours since the birth of their youngsters, right through to ...  Read the complete review

Without a doubt Jodi Picoult is one of the best authors there because her story lines are unique and will cause you question things in life that may have never even occurred to you. Best known for her courtroom drama Jodi Picoult creates an intense and moving novel in The Pact. I first read this book when I was 13 and I have to say I was young and scared by this book because it honestly was heartbreaking. I hated the ending because at 13 every was black and white, you were guilty or innocent and if you were guilty you should be punished. Perhaps a year later I picked up this book and read it again and was deeply moved and once again shocked by this ...  Read the complete review

I was browsing in the library and came across The Pact by Jodie Picoult, and read the back and was intrigued so I got it out, and I'm really glad I did as I really enjoyed it. The book starts setting the scene with the Gold and Harte parents meeting up for a Chinese as they have done for years and then going home to their next door houses and each set getting calls late at night advising them their child is in hospital. They rush to the hospital and the Gold's discover their daughter Emily is dead, and the Harte's that their son Chris is injured but OK. Emily has been shot and Chris tells the police that it was a double suicide pact but he fainted when Emily ...  Read the complete review