Sage isn’t a Christian like Mary, not at all. She thinks Joseph’s massacres of Jews can’t be forgiven, and she is extremely angry at him for killing her grandmother’s best friend, and intending to kill grandmother.Ģ. I understand why Sage doesn’t forgive Joseph, and why she rejects Mary’s advice, and maybe even why she decides to kill Joseph:ġ. In contrast, the long horrific retelling of the 20th century horror is all too to vivid, all to real, and the book's shocking ending is too convincing, too disturbing and, too unfinishing!
Too weak of characterization, too many unconvincing plot steps, too many overly detailed long-boring descriptions of Jewish bread-making (all of which seem like Picoult going overboard on trying to show how diligently and thoroughly she studied Jewish baking in order to be accurate). If I hadn’t been assigned this book for the new club I joined last month, I might have quit by page 100. By the end of the novel, a reader may change his mind, but more on that later.
Seems artificial and implausible.Įven though Picoult is seeking to root the story of good and evil, right and wrong, truth and deception, guilt and forgiveness in the present by having this weak, surfacey current Jewish narrative begin her long, deep, troubling revisiting of the German-caused Holocaust, I don't think it works, at least not at the start. The beginning is bad because Picoult’s character of the atheist Jewish baker who is guilt ridden, scarred from an accident, and selfishly insecure isn’t convincing.
Not at all.īut then I didn’t like the very slow-stalebreadish, unbelievable beginning of the book either!īut the beginning and ending are bad for exactly opposite reasons. I don’t like the novel's ending at all don’t agree with it thematically, morally, or as a fitting climatic plot conclusion.
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