2007-03-07 - 12:02 a.m.
just finished reading 'the pact'. 2nd jodi picoult book tht made my eyes well up with tears while reading. its about this boy and this girl who grew up together all their life. neighbours since they were born, they gradually became a couple. but the girl got sexually abused and became suicidal and asked the boy to help him kill her. he did and wanted to kill himself after that too, but he fainted and a few days later got charged for murder of his gf.
family relationships is my 'weakness' la. even normal tv show, i see a mother crying over her children i'll cry too. somemore, jodi picoult described the parents' grief too well. esp the scene the girl's mother brought novels, paints and brushes to her grave believing she'll come back for them. even the father who was telling the mother that she does not need to do this eventually left the novels and all there too, 'just in case'.
wah. cry liao lar. lot more scenes but wont want to type the entire story here lar. haha
was a little disappointed that even at the end, the families and the boy didn't find out abt the sexual abuse, cept i think her mum. but then, come to think of it, it wld have been more realistic this way too.
have i mentioned before that i loved books with court trial scenes? 'vanishing acts' was the same too. think this probably started with TKMB back in sec sch? love cross-examinations. seeing how the defending lawyer shoots down every bit of evidence to be as worthless as possible after prosecution has presented them always make me glued to the book till the verdict comes out. love the final summations too. emotional yet logical ones. atticus's one, eric's one, jordon's one.
SHIOK.
haha glanced through the last few pages of 'the pact' tht had pages of interview of jodi picoult. she actually believes that the boy should have been convicted! haha simply let him go off not guilty so as to create a happy ending.
im glad i did renew this book and din just return at tht time. totally worth it.