Title: Stupid concepts
Review: An interesting concept where a child conceived to provide bone marrow for her sister with leukemia, employs a lawyer to protect her rights and prevent her parents from further exploiting her. In the mix are unintentionally abusive and neglectful parents and a ridiculous story line with a lawyer. The end of the story is pure daytime soap opera and not worthy of discussion,but I must take issue with Ms. Picoult's creation of a lawyer with epilepsy which is so poorly controlled he needs a support dog, yet continues to drive a car. Ridiculous, the man's a lawyer, for heaven's sakes, he may be stupid but he is bound by a code of behavior. Also, he is ashamed and secretive about his condition. Why? This is not explained and in 2010 this is ridiculous.These things spoiled the book for me. Picoult does this sort of thing in many of her books, it's like she can only do so much research and then lets things slip for the sake of the plot. shabby.
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