Title: Mission NOT Accomplished
Review: The author starts out with an excellent premise. She makes the reader take a closer look at decisions and the ethical problems they raise based on advancements in technology. Unfortunately, she reverts to a convoluted plot to show the reader that "Mother Knows Best," and that life sucks, and then you die. The ending comes so forcefully, the reader cannot believe what happened. It is true that we lose people suddenly in our lives, and the shock value is much the same as how it happens in the book, but the whole story is lost in the ending. What starts out as a quest for pursuit of personal rights, ends up as a very sad commentary on life. Perhaps that's what the author wanted to do..... This was the first book I read by Jodi Picoult, and it will be the last book of hers that I will ever read.
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