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The Pact
The Pact: A Love Story | Jodi Picoult
Until the phone calls came at three o'clock on a November morning, the Golds and their neighbors, the Hartes, had been inseparable. It was no surprise to anyone when their teenage children, Chris and Emily, began showing signs that their relationship was moving beyond that of lifelong friends. But now seventeen-year-old Emily is deadshot with a gun her beloved and devoted Chris pilfered from his father's cabinet as part of an apparent suicide pactleaving two devastated families stranded in the dark and dense predawn, desperate for answers about an unthinkable act and the children they never really knew. From New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoultone of the most powerful writers in contemporary fictioncomes a riveting, timely, heartbreaking, and terrifying novel of families in anguish and friendships ripped apart by inconceivable violence.
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Eggs 🧡📚👍🏼 2y
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Billie84
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Absolutely loved this story. Gives you a lot to think about. Would you help someone who you love so much and who is in so much pain and feels like they have no other way out kill themselves? A definite must read

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Billie84
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Starting this today

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all_4_kb
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Nothing wrong with a little reading during downtime at work, right?! #NightShift

MoonWitch94 This book crushed my soul 😢 3y
all_4_kb @MoonWitch94 oh no!!! Is it good though??? 3y
MoonWitch94 @kbibliophilific yes! It‘s my favorite book by Picoult (edited) 3y
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all_4_kb @MoonWitch94 wow! I love her books so picking a favorite would be hard. Definitely excited for the one! Thanks for the comments 💓 3y
MoonWitch94 💜 I can‘t wait to hear what you think when you finish 3y
all_4_kb @MoonWitch94 wow!! It was definitely a tough one but oh so good!! 3y
MoonWitch94 @kbibliophilific It was brutal but like you said SO GOOD! I‘m glad you liked it! I hate it when you invest time & emotion into a read only to dislike it. 3y
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Agabriv
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There are so many topics that people avoid talking about. It can be because they don‘t really want to face reality or maybe cause they just don‘t care. Can anyone ever really know what‘s going through somebody‘s head? Could you stop people from putting and end to their pain?

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Agabriv
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The mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can‘t see the wound doesn‘t mean it isn‘t hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals.

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EadieB
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Day 27 - #JodiPicoult #AugustAuthors

I have read 10 of her books

OriginalCyn620 👍🏻📚👍🏻 4y
Kloves2read Love her writing! I think she keeps getting better with each book! 4y
EadieB @Kloves2read I think so too! 4y
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Teresereading
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1. probably Jodi Picoult or Donna Leon
2. 9 and quite a few piles
3. Random but sometimes try to group favourite authors or history topics

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Margot0817
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I really love Jodi Picoult books even though I can't read too many in a row before of all the law themes.
See how life long friends are slowly torn apart over a mystery that keeps you guessing until the last page.

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Sresendez12
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1. This was my first Jodi Picoult book and I‘m now an avid fan of the majority of her books
2. Gosh. It‘s been so long. I think it was Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
3. Anything grilled outside
4. 2 immediate cousins. Lots more extended cousins
#friyayintro

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KristenDuck
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Finished The Pact at breakfast today, Jodi Picoult did it again!

Emily and Chris never had to say they “found” the loves of their lives, because they have had each other since the day they were born.

So what went tragically wrong that made Emily want to kill herself? Chris could never live without her... yet that fateful day at the carousel, Chris was found holding the gun and Emily‘s dead body.

Heartbreaking and quite the page turner!

Acoleman The Pact was my first Jodi Picoult, I‘ve been hooked ever since. 6y
KristenDuck @Acoleman certainly one of her best! 6y
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Abooker18
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Incredibly done—could not put this one down

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SexyCajun
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Wow!! Absolutely FRIGGING amazing !!! This story blew it out of he park! Worth every word!!! Wow!!!!! @debthmpsn thank you for this book! Thoroughly engrossing!

StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego This book was very good. 6y
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SexyCajun
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I can tell this ones gonna be heartbreaking as it already is and I just started the book today! Bit looking forward to this story anyway! This is a book I received in the Autumn book swap 😊

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SexyCajun
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#fffs @Avanders @debthmpsn thank you so much for your generous box! Everything is so wonderful and I‘m grateful for this beautiful gift. My husband turned the AC to Antarctica setting so I‘m already enjoying this wonderful throw! Those cookies are to die for and can‘t wait to enjoy my new books! They both look great ❤️📖 @Avanders thnx for hosting this fun swap!❤️❤️

Lauram Antarctica setting sounds amazing! Cozying up under a blanket to read is the best. 6y
Avanders ❤️🧡💛🎃🍁🍂😍 6y
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Regi_C
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Just got back from the lake, and saw that my MFM Book Club swap arrived! I've never even heard of this author before, so I'm really curious to see what her style is like and how the book flows.

Lovesbooks87 I love Jodi Picoult's books. They are amazing. Hope you enjoy it! 6y
DivineDiana I have enjoyed her books, and I read a few! 6y
Regi_C Awesome! I hope that I enjoy it the same as you two! I love discovering new authors 😄😄 6y
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LoverofLit I love Jodi Picoult and this was the first one I ever read by her as well and I fell in love! I hope you love it as much as I did 😁 6y
Krystle13 She has been around for a long while now. Her books are amazing and always draw you in. 6y
RadicalReader @Regi_C bunnies are forever adorable 6y
Regi_C @RadicalReader TOTALLY AGREE 6y
tammysue Love Picoult‘s books! Hope you enjoy it! 6y
Regi_C I feel like I've been living under a rock since so many peo0le know of her and here I am going "hey who dis" 6y
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Wonderwoman89
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Just finished with this book. I am a huge Jodi Picoult fan and this book didn‘t let me down. If you like tense books that keep you reading, this is a must read.

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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
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An apparent suicide pact devastates two families... I loaned this one out and it was never returned 😩😩

#Iwoulddieforyou

#PrinceofJuly

InBooksILive Oh I hate when people don't return books they've borrowed from me! Don't they understand our love for our books?! It's like not returning a child or something lol 6y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @InBooksILive yes!!! Exactly!!!! 🙌🏻 makes me so mad!!!! 6y
Wonderwoman89 This is the next book I want to read. 6y
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Wonderwoman89 it‘s so good!! I love all of her books!! 6y
Wonderwoman89 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I love her books as well I just picked up a bunch of them last weekend at the flea mall that I haven‘t read yet. 6y
Djkpanic @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks this is my next Jodi book- fingers crossed it makes its way back to you! 6y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Djkpanic thank you, but it‘s been years 😢 I can‘t wait for her new one!!! 6y
vkois88 Oh no! I'm sorry someone stole it 😔😔 6y
Djkpanic @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks me too! I plan on going to her Dallas book tour in October 😊 6y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @vkois88 it‘s ok!!! 😘 (edited) 6y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Djkpanic I‘m jealous!!!! 6y
mrp27 I hate it when that happens! 6y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @mrp27 ikr!!! 😩😩 6y
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AngelHelen
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As I was coming to the end of the latest Kate Mosse, I decided to treat myself to a few books by some of my favourite authors. Now, which to read first? 💕📚💕

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Wonderwoman89
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Thank you @AmberWB for my #funinthesummerbookswap box. Can‘t wait to read my books.

Wonderwoman89 Oh and thank you for my Wonder Woman cup and talking head and bag to carry everything in. I love it all. 6y
AmberWB I am so glad everything showed up in one piece! Happy summer reading! 😊 6y
jillannjohn ❤️ Lasher! 6y
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Cinfhen
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#NuYear #IdieYouDie It‘s a shock to the tightly woven community when Chris & Emily, friends since birth, seemingly happy well adjusted young adults from two respectable families are discovered to have made a suicide pact. One is dead, one is now facing a murder charge. I strongly disliked this book as it felt contrived. Lots of TW....A story about how well do we know our children, our spouse, our neighbors, our community.

Reggie The first book I ever read of hers was 10 Minutes and I just thought, how crazy. It had bullying, relationship violence, gun violence, and those were just the kids. Lol. She always manages to make you feel someway though. The one with the elephants is the only other one I‘ve read of hers. And I loved it. 7y
Cinfhen I read the elephant one too! I totally get what you‘re saying about JP, but I feel like she manipulates the reader...she does like to throw a whole lot into the pot...above book has plenty of “hot topics” but you know...#spoilers @Reggie 7y
TrishB Haven‘t read this particular one - read a few of hers and generally have that feeling - sometimes controversial for the sake of it. 7y
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Mdargusch I‘ve never been a fan of hers. 7y
emilyhaldi Yeah, I‘ve never really been into her books. 🤷🏻‍♀️ 7y
Reviewsbylola I feel like her books are always contrived. That being said, many of them have been compulsively readable for me, including this one. 7y
Leftcoastzen I agree , I read one and started a second, but with layering of hot button issues and manipulation of the reader, I saw how she rolled....meh. 7y
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Victoriahoperose
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Mehso-so

It‘s not that I didn‘t love this book or like it. I think it wasn‘t what I️ was expecting, but not in the way that I️ wanted to be. It was wrapped up too neatly in the end for me and I️ think she could have done a lot more to conclude this one. It‘s such a sensitive topic and even though her research was impeccable, I️ found it to be a little unbelievable some ways. It wasn‘t bad and I️ wouldn‘t say not to read it. Just not my favorite one by her!

Joanne1 I agree. Definitely not her best. 7y
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Damilaaaa
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One my favorite reads. This book reminds you what it feels like when your growing up and just finding yourself. It reminds me of he bad and the good.

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DoraSantosMarques
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⭐⭐⭐⭐ Another good book from Jodi 😃

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JacintaMCarter
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#2017Book144
#LitsyAtoZ Part 1: TBR books by author
#BookP

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ❤️❤️❤️❤️ 7y
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JacintaMCarter
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I'm using this novel for #SoulMeetsBody because of the line in the song that says "But if the silence takes you, then I hope it takes me, too." #JuneTunz

Cinfhen Well played 🎵😌 7y
Hollie Nicely done! 7y
Jcarter295 This book made me angry ( at the characters). 7y
JacintaMCarter @Jcarter295 I haven't read it yet; I just know the general plot summary. It's toward the top of my "summer reading" pile, though. 7y
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Eggs
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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? -Christopher Marlowe

Let us embrace and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together. -Thomas Otway

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Eggs
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This is promising, but then JP rarely disappoints. Mysterious premises...

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SusanLee
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A beautiful yet heartbreaking love story. My first Picoult and I was moved to tears.

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Nyamedo
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I read this book a while ago now, but it has stuck with me after all this time because it was so emotional. It's beautifully written in the sense that you see the story from all these different viewpoints (as Jodi Picoult does). It's heartbreaking, yet almost understandable and the relationships between the characters will keep you constantly questioning them and yourself.

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spilledinklove
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I started this last year but didn't get to finish it. Now I'm starting it all over again. My second Jodi Picoult book and so far I'm loving it.

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janalou
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I loved this book. It was the first Jodi Picoult book that I read. Now I have read all of her books!

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Erinelizabethkayata
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Wondering why I continue to let myself be emotionally manipulated by Jodi Picoult books...but at least this time, it's in the pool

Readaholics Ha! Some bad habits are hard to break. Lol 8y
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Maddycht
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This was an intense read about love and loss. True love, powerful and a bit scary. It's a book that will stay with me.

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ImaginativeMom
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Y'all. Y'ALL. This book wrecked me. This pretty cover hides a story of love and loss and desperation; of family, friendship, and betrayal. What do you do when the person you love most asks you to do the impossible? Can best friends, marriages find their way through tragedy? This novel has so many levels and is wonderfully written, but it wrung me out.

Karen3 Love her books but they all seem to do that to me. 8y
gibblr Never seen that cover 😍 8y
ImaginativeMom @Karen3 This is the first I've read of hers. Not sure I could stand another! @gibblr It deceived me! 8y
gibblr Haha, true! But it's so pretty! 8y
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Maddycht
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Just ran to library without any idea of what I wanted and found this. I usually have a list a mile long of tbr. Hoping it's a good one.

Josie I really liked it! I hope you do, too :) 8y
LiteraryinPA It's intense in a very Jodi P way! 8y
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ImaginativeMom
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This is what this book is doing to me. It's painful and brutal and desperately sad and I'm just hoping for a light at the end of the tunnel.

Gleefulreader I love that picture. Is it one of yours? 8y
Soubhiville That was a rough book. Really cool statue though! 8y
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I often wonder how readers' experiences affect their relationships to novels. Were I not the mother of a son, man cub, would I have been so moved by this?

LauraBeth You probably would have been - when I read a passage like this I read it along two parallels - one as the actual passage and second with me trading in my own personal experiences to make it relevant. So I read this passage for what it was and then re-wrote it of sorts but with my daughter in mind. Does that make sense? I'm beginning to unravel why I'm not a particularly fast reader... 8y
ImaginativeMom @LauraBeth That *does* make sense. But what if we weren't parents? Would that make a difference? 8y
Cinfhen @ImaginativeMom @LauraBeth I absolutely believe who we are, where we come from, where we're going and where we are affect our reading. Books that I couldn't relate to in high school suddenly make sense now that I'm a "few" years passed high school 8y
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LauraBeth That's a good question @ImaginativeMom and I think @Cinfhen touches on it in that our experiences do shape how we perceive things so if you had read this before being a mom, then you would have read it differently (I'm guessing with not as much passion for this passage as now). I like to go back and re-read books I read in my 20s and 30s because it's like I'm reading an entirely different book. 8y
ImaginativeMom @LauraBeth @Cinfhen I think you're both right, of course. I think I've just been meditating on how being a parent influences my reading given the books I've read recently. Thanks for your only! 8y
gibblr I think it would absolutely influence your reading/interpretation of it, but I do not think it would necessarily move you any less. Does that make sense? 8y
ImaginativeMom @gibblr It does make sense, but that's what I'm wondering as I sob my way through this book. Are people who have not been parents as moved in books like this as people who have? I know, for instance, that while reading war fiction is powerful for me, it's much more powerful for my husband who is a veteran. This is a ridiculous discussion, of course. Our experience informs our reading. It's just this book. Wow. 8y
gibblr Of course. I'm a mom and I love all things Picoult, so I understand you with this book! 8y
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Little_Reader
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One of my favorite Jodi Picoult novels! About young love and death.

WanderingBookaneer Mine too! So heartbreaking. 8y
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The only three peach-ish ones I own! The Pact is one of my all term early-on fave reads, I vaguely remember reading the Zelda one and I haven't read #girlboss yet. #augustofpages #augustphotochallenge

k_andrws Ooooh, have you started Call Me Zelda yet? I've heard good things about it, what do you think? 8y
Jenshootsweddings @k_andrws I read it a few years ago! I grabbed it right after I was done Z: a novel and was on a huge Zelda kick. I enjoyed it enough to keep it around! I only keep books I like ❤️ 8y
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Cityofamber
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Finished this reread. Of course I loved it. It was the first book of Jodi's I read and now I've read all of them. It's still in my top 5 Jodi books :) and it was the perfect "jury duty" week book ?

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Recommend by a friend

Josie Very good. Heartbreaking, but good 8y
Sammidnightsun Lol u r the second person to tell me that 8y
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