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A review by booksandbraids
The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult
adventurous
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
5.0
This book was SO good. Everything about it. The characters. The plot. The Egyptology. I wouldn’t have changed a thing.
Thoughts…
- 74% HE HID THE LETTERS. DIVORCE HIM AND MOVE TO EGYPT
- Honestly though. Fuck him for being mad. Fuck him for being angry that you never considered that the child might might be his. Excuse me, sir, YOU WERE STEALING HER LOVE LETTERS!! She was in the middle of losing her mother, losing her life as she knew it, and taking on the responsibility of raising her orphaned brother and you threw away the letters from what was essentially your competition! She wasn’t thinking because her life had just been completely blown up and destroyed. But YOU knew! You knew there was someone before you! JUST BEFORE YOU! Hell, the letters that you threw away overlapped with you. How could YOU also not consider that the child might not be yours? You just said that guys like you don’t get the girl. Don’t get to marry their dream. What if part of YOU questioned if the baby wasn’t yours but went with it because that meant you kept to keep Dawn? Fuck Bryan. I get that he’s sweet to them and all but boy is that a poisonous foundation to start on. I’m glad they worked it out in the end but I’m also glad she left him for Wyatt.
- This whole time I was expecting the “two universes” to be one and the same just out of order. I never expected the plane crash as happening after she reunited with Wyatt with BOTH OF THEM TOGETHER! And that was probably the point. And that was absolutely freaking amazing.
- Jodi Picoult is such a good writer and I feel like people just sort of ignore her nowadays because she’s very early 2000’s (at least that is how I think of her and why I tend to ignore her most of the time). Which is really a silly reason to ignore her because Nicholas Sparks has also been writing since then and is also of this sort of “women’s fiction” genre but I still read everything he reads and keep him on my top list. Never again! I am now a true fan of Jodi Picoult! Which is also pretty silly that it took this long. This is now the 4th book of hers that I have read. 2 others have been 5 stars. You would think that would have been enough to convince me.
Thoughts…
- Honestly though. Fuck him for being mad. Fuck him for being angry that you never considered that the child might might be his. Excuse me, sir, YOU WERE STEALING HER LOVE LETTERS!! She was in the middle of losing her mother, losing her life as she knew it, and taking on the responsibility of raising her orphaned brother and you threw away the letters from what was essentially your competition! She wasn’t thinking because her life had just been completely blown up and destroyed. But YOU knew! You knew there was someone before you! JUST BEFORE YOU! Hell, the letters that you threw away overlapped with you. How could YOU also not consider that the child might not be yours? You just said that guys like you don’t get the girl. Don’t get to marry their dream. What if part of YOU questioned if the baby wasn’t yours but went with it because that meant you kept to keep Dawn? Fuck Bryan. I get that he’s sweet to them and all but boy is that a poisonous foundation to start on. I’m glad they worked it out in the end but I’m also glad she left him for Wyatt.
- This whole time I was expecting the “two universes” to be one and the same just out of order. I never expected the plane crash as happening after she reunited with Wyatt with BOTH OF THEM TOGETHER! And that was probably the point. And that was absolutely freaking amazing.
- Jodi Picoult is such a good writer and I feel like people just sort of ignore her nowadays because she’s very early 2000’s (at least that is how I think of her and why I tend to ignore her most of the time). Which is really a silly reason to ignore her because Nicholas Sparks has also been writing since then and is also of this sort of “women’s fiction” genre but I still read everything he reads and keep him on my top list. Never again! I am now a true fan of Jodi Picoult! Which is also pretty silly that it took this long. This is now the 4th book of hers that I have read. 2 others have been 5 stars. You would think that would have been enough to convince me.