My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult

Description:
New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally riveting story of a family torn apart by conflicting needs and a passionate love that triumphs over human weakness.
Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. The product of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate -- a life and a role that she has never challenged...until now. Like most teenagers, Anna is beginning to question who she truly is. But unlike most teenagers, she has always been defined in terms of her sister -- and so Anna makes a decision that for most would be unthinkable, a decision that will tear her family apart and have perhaps fatal consequences for the sister she loves.
Review:
I've been afraid to read this book because I knew it would make me upset. But then I saw commercials on TV showing that the book had been made into a movie. So I figured I should read the book before the movie comes out. When I started reading it I was expecting a tear jerker. What I didn't expect was it being a tear-jerker from beginning to end. I was so angry and in the end of the book was absolutely devastated.
I am forever afraid to read anything from Jodi Picoult, only because I know she will rip my heart out and stomp on it before giving it back. The writing described everything that was going on perfectly sucking me into the story. It was as if I was living the turmoil and sorrow that family was going through. The movie was good until the very end. I was really really disappointed with the end of the movie. Not sure why they had to change it!!!
I highly recommend the book.

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The Wizard Heir - Cinda Williams Chima

Description:
Sixteen-year-old Seph McCauley has spent the past three years getting kicked out of one exclusive private school after another. Unfortunately it’s not his attitude that’s the problem. It’s the trail of magical accidents—lately, disasters—that follow in his wake. Seph is a wizard, orphaned and untrained—and now that the only person who could protect him has died, his powers are escalating out of control.
After causing a tragic fire at an after-hours party, Seph is sent to the Havens, a secluded boys’ school on the coast of Maine. At first, it seems like the answer to his prayers. Gregory Leicester, the headmaster, promises to train Seph in magic and initiate him into his mysterious order of wizards. But Seph's enthusiasm dampens quickly when he learns that training comes at a steep cost, and that Leicester plans to use his students' powers to serve his own mysterious agenda.
In this companion novel to the exciting fantasy The Warrior Heir, everyone's got a secret to keep: Jason Haley, a fellow student who’s been warned to keep away from Seph; the enchanter Linda Downey, who knew his parents; the rogue wizard Leander Hastings, and the warriors Jack Swift and Ellen Stephenson. This wizard war is one that Seph may not have the strength to survive.
Review:
This is book two in this series (see The Warrior Heir for my review on book 1). Again, there is a lot that needs to be explained regarding the Rose wars and the Weirlinds. So far I like these series. The reading was really fast (it took me 2 days because I still needed to work). When SephSeph because he was a loner and did not know who to trust. I was especially happy when the characters from book one was introduced to Seph and I liked seeing Jack from a different point of view. goes to the special school I did feel for
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