Would recommend: Probably not

Practically every woman I've met has recommended this book, as well as Jodi Picoult's entire body of fiction, so I was hoping to love My Sister's Keeper as much as they did. I was primed for it: I am a younger sister, I edit medical articles, and I internalize traumatic situations. It should have been a slam dunk.

But, no. I didn't appreciate Picoult's mechanism of shifting the narrator from character to character (or the publisher's choice to switch up typefaces accordingly) because I view it as a shallow method to avoid committing to a narrator for the book's entirety. The ending was unsatisfying and predictable for me, and I'm just glad it only took me a week or so to get to it. I don't intend to read any of Picoult's other books.

I also found three blatant errors that should have been found by any rookie copy editor, and these only served to raise my ire even more.