SO good! Jodi Picoult does an amazing job of addressing the issues and emotions associated with losing family, the death penalty, and religion.

This tall yarn has some flavors of "The Green Mile" but is quite imaginative but rather predictable. There are a lot of loose ends in the "happenings" that are fanciful and not tied up, but it is not a boring read and maintains interest,

Jodi Picoult never disappoints if you are looking for a page-turner full of controversial concepts. In this book, Picoult fictionalizes a death penalty case and includes discussion of organized religion as well as atheism. I always enjoy the way Picoult weaves characters and their stories together to create an interesting story. The book is well written, if not very believable.

Oh Jodi Piccoult, it is my prayer (after reading this book about prayer) that I could once again read one of your books like I did the first, without being able to call the twist after the first 5 pages. And that you get some therapy...

At first, I didnt think it was a good book. But then, I cried. And I know that this book is fantastic :)

WOW what a great book. I really enjoyed the different look to a death row prisioner and organ donation. Picoult takes it to a different level in this book and it was fantastic.

4 stars!

Jodi Picoult brings us to this book again a lot of heavy topics as grief, revenge, religion, faith, and justice.
A part of the story may look similar to the Green Mile by Stephen King, as they say in the book, but is much more than that.

We follow 4 main points of view: June, the mother, and wife who after losing her oldest daughter and husband has to choose between letting her youngest daughter die or give her the heart of the murderer, Michael, the priest who during the book will question his own beliefs and tries to make amends with the past, Maggie, the lawyer which will try to help Shay fulfill his last wish and Lucius, who will be your view inside the prison and testimony of what could have happened in there.

June will show us the view of someone who lost almost everything and wants her justice being made but at the same time wants to save her youngest daughter and not ended being alone without anyone. I thought her character did not have much time on the book very small chapters and very few but it was fine because we retain the most important things she wanted to pass.

Maggie is the justice of the points, she wants to fight for your rights even if that harms her on a personal level. She is insecure about her body and I thought that her struggle to accept herself was very true. She also made us see that your justice or your peace of mind is not equal to the others and sometimes it is better to leave things as they are because it will work out in the end.

Michael is, for me, the most important point of view, being on Shay jury and condemned him to death. He as to deal with his guilt of that decision and after many years he is chosen to be the spiritual guide to Shay. He must help him and on the way, his faith and beliefs will be put to the test to the possibility that miracles can actually be happening.

Lucius, as I said early, is our point of view inside the prison, he will be your eyes and ears about Shay and about everything that happens there.

I think it was a good choice not to be inside Shay because as we saw it would be very messy but I would love to be inside in one situation or two especially at the end.

I thought as always the book is very well written, the different perspectives give something else to this story and bring other views over the subject. I think the topics are also important and how sometimes the truth is very hard to be achieved and to understand. I think Jodi did as always a good job of investigation about the death penalty and the death row and the court scene was very please to read.

But I thought some parts were very easy to see what is going to happen especially at the end, and that took a little bit of the fun and excitement of this book so I am a bit sad about it.

But overall an amazing book definitely worth reading!

My first Jodi Picoult book and I really enjoyed it. I admit it took me a while to get use to her style of writing each chapter from the view of one specific character but once I did and in all her books I've subsequently read this has been no problem at all. I loved this book because of the way she makes you think about what you would do in a difficult situation, as most of her stories do.