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My sister's keeper

I've just started reading "My sister's keeper" By Jodi Picoult. It's a book I'd been meaning to get my hands on for ages. In my search for this one, I managed to find another one, "Perfect Match", which was a book that I must write about, another time..different take aways there. Anyway, "My sister's keeper"; I knew this was going to be a difficult book to read. With no sides that could be taken, a story with questions that might be too difficult to even confront, let alone answer. I hadn't bargained on it being this hard hitting though. I am barely 50 pages through, and already, I need a break. This hasn't happened to me with any book. EVER. There's no gore, no blood, no traumatic scenes written in heartbreaking detail. But the characters, their emotions, they're so raw, so real. It's like watching the story of someone's life unravel, completely unmasked, open to everyone's scrutiny. Already, my mind is spin