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Mercy | 
 enlarge | Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
Category: Book
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Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 4713
Media: Paperback
Pages: 464
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Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 1.6
ISBN: 0340835508
EAN: 9780340835500
ASIN: 0340835508
Publication Date: August 23, 2007
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 One to miss... April 29, 2008
J. Austin (UK)
I really found this book a struggle to finish. It's billed as being about euthanasia but actually is more about the extra marital affair between Cam and Mia. I really didn't get the point of the Scottish influence going on and found it so annoying that I ended up skipping pages and pages to with 'Scottishness' and anything to do with Angus..what was the point of him again???. I also skipped the trial of James, the man who had killed his wife because she had cancer.
It seemed to me there are a lot of cheats in this book...for instance; why on earth would Allie, wife of Cam and owner of the flower shop drop all to become involved in helping with the defense case of James, who she doesn't even know and leave the husband she adores so much to go scooting off and behaving like some amateur sleuth? Really...why?????It just doesn't add up. Also, she leaves her business, the flower shop, in the hands of Mia, someone she also hardly knows, who just walked in off the street one day and to whom she handed a job, just like that? Why? Especially as it's mentioned later in the book that the flower shop barely makes a profit..so why take on staff you don't actually need and haven't advertised for??It's just silly...
 recommended reading April 25, 2008
Rachel Bridgeman (Wales)
i loved this book it really got me thinking about the nature of relationships and how far you'd go for a loved one.
disappointing April 15, 2008
A. Caddy
I have read all of jodi picoults books so far and when i saw this one i couldnt wait to get it home and read it, was thoroughly disappointed and felt they book did not capture my attention at all, i kept reading in the hope it would get better but it didnt, i skimmed the last few pages just so i could quickly finish it. I am about to read second glance and hoping that one is better.
 Not her best, but still quite un-put-downable March 24, 2008
Mrs. Erica Edwards (Scotland, UK)
The first Jodi Picoult I ever read was The Pact, which I totally loved, and I have since read four more of her novels, Mercy included. Mercy is not as good as some of her others, but it is much more un-put-downable than Vanishing Acts, with which I toiled to finish.
I quite liked the two stories which were running side by side in Mercy, that of the mercy killing of Maggie who has cancer by her devoted husband and that of the affair between Cam and Mia, juxtaposed with Cam's relationship with his wife. These two plots made you think about the balance between people who are in relationships - is there always someone who loves more? I was also pleasantly surprised that Cam's wife, Allie, got really angry when she discovered her husband's infidelity, rather than remaining a "door mat." She seemed to become so much stronger and I do think that this could happen after a weak spouse finds out how she has been betrayed. I then enjoyed watching how Cam reacted to this extreme change in his wife's feelings and actions towards him. I felt that it was all quite believable.
Some reviewers have complained about the predictable trial and Jodi Picoult is an author who does follow a formula. However, I did look forward to this and the novel's conclusion.
Had I read this novel as my first Picoult, I may not have returned to her so many times, but as I know how amazing she can be (The Pact, My Sister's Keeper and Salem Falls) I can take Mercy for what it is: a reasonably gripping book which is a fairly enjoyable read.
 I enjoyed it. March 17, 2008
busy lizzy (Hampshire, UK)
I'm obviously in the minority here. This was the first 'Jodi' book that I have read and I couldn't put it down all weekend, I loved it. Can't wait to get get my hands on more of her stories, as other reviewers seem to think that Mercy is one of her weaker novels. I shall have to the save the rest for a long holiday or nothing will get done.
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