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A Clash of Kings
George R.R. Martin
The Diviners
Libba Bray
The Book of (Even More) Awesome
Neil Pasricha
Dear Bully: Seventy Authors Tell Their Stories
Megan Kelley Hall, Carrie Jones, Claudia Gabel, Courtney Sheinmel, Crissa-Jean Chappell, Cyn Balog, Cynthia Leitich Smith, Daniel Waters, Dawn Metcalf, Debbie Rigaud, Deborah Kerbel, Diana Rodriguez Wallach, A.S. King, Eric Luper, Erin Dionne, Alyson Noel, Amy Goldman Ko
Shatter Me
Tahereh Mafi
Cress
Marissa Meyer
Truth & Dare: 20 Tales of Heartbreak and Happiness
Watchmen

My Sister's Keeper

My Sister's Keeper - One thing that amazes me is how differently everyone rates Jodi Picoult's novels. I don't think they're perfect and I only read one every once ina while because I feel like otherwise, they would get repetitive.**POTENTIAL SPOILERS**The first time I read Picoult, I felt like I was reading something which I ahd read before. Something about her writing style feels a bit cliched and unoriginal to me. However, I did like the formation of the narration in this novel. As I delved further into the book, I felt that it read quickly and raised a lot of interesting questions to be contemplated. Some people complain about how the youngest child (whose name escapes me) was born to donate organs to her older sister and how that is highly unethical, but I think part of Picoult's point is to make her reader sit down and question whether he or she thinks that this is right or wrong. I believe that if you a writer and you have made your reader sit down and do this that it is a very positive thing. But when I got to the ending of the book, I felt cheated. I thought that it was a cop out to prevent Picoult from taking a stance as an author. **END POTENTIAL SPOILERS**Otherwise I actually, despite the writing, quite enjoyed reading it, but once I got to that end I just found myself irritated with Picoult.