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    Mercy

    Written by Jodi Picoult

    Narrated by Alyssa Bresnahan

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    Cameron MacDonald has spent his life guided by duty. As the police chief of a small Massachusetts town that has been home to generations of his Scottish clan, he is bound to the town's residents by blood and honour. Yet when his cousin Jamie arrives at the police station with the body of his wife and the bald confession that he's killed her, Cam immediately places him under arrest. The situation isn't as clear to Cam's wife, Allie. While she is devoted to her husband, she finds herself siding against Cam, seduced by the picture James paints of a man so in love with a woman that he'd grant all her wishes. Even the one that meant takins her life...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateDec 1, 2008
    ISBN9781407431109
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    Jodi Picoult

    Jodi Picoult received an AB in creative writing from Princeton and a master’s degree in education from Harvard. The recipient of the 2003 New England Book Award for her entire body of work, she is the author of twenty-seven novels, including the #1 New York Times bestsellers House Rules, Handle With Care, Change of Heart, and My Sister’s Keeper, for which she received the American Library Association’s Margaret Alexander Edwards Award. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and three children. Visit her website at JodiPicoult.com.

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    • 4/5
      I love Jodi’s books, but I couldn’t empathise with the characters in this one so it fell a little flat for me, but was still worth the read!
    • 3/5
      The small, primarily Scottish town of Wheelock, Massachusetts gets a shock when Jamie McDonald drives into the town square and confesses to murdering his wife. As the details of the crime come out, it becomes clear that Jamie killed his wife in accordance with her wishes in the late stages of her terminal cancer. Meanwhile, Cameron McDonald, Jamie's cousin and sheriff of Wheelock becomes attracted to the strange woman who has come to town. She's exotic, free and unfettered, unlike anyone he's ever known. She's also working in his wife's flowershop.Like all of Picoult's books this is a novel of challenging issues, flawed characters, and difficult family struggles.
    • 2/5
      In this novel, Picoult does not have her trademark style where she presents differing view points. Instead, it's a mishmash of trite love stories which distract from the real issue: euthanasia, addressed coherently only in the last chapters.I was disappointed with the obsessive romances, ghosts and unhelpful Scottish lore, all of which only contribute to heavy-handed symbolism and none of which provided a strong foundation for the main theme.I usually enjoy Picoult but I do not recommend this one.
    • 1/5
      A swing and a miss from Picoult, whose novels I usually like.This one was just too sappy for my taste, borrowing liberally from "The Bridges of Madison County" (which I really hated) and letting that co-plot vitiate what might have been a sensitive and thoughtful look at the subject of mercy-killing.
    • 5/5
      This is a fantastic story about what mercy looks like in different situations. Can it ever mean killing someone if they are sick and in pain with no hope of getting better? What does it look like in a marriage that is amazing? How about one that is falling apart? Is it the same for everyone?

      This book will have you thinking about questions you never thought to think.
    • 1/5
      DNF. I read about two hundred pages. This is absolute crap.
    • 4/5
      Adults only! Very descriptive and you can’t put it down.She starts the book with two events that leave you hooked and wondering how they started and how they are going to end. You have to know why she sold all his stuff and you have to know why his wife wanted to die. The detail she gives leaves a picture in your head with no missing pieces. If you were an artist you could draw out every seen and know exactly every detail down to the wrinkles in the bedspread. Allie’s husband Cam get caught doing something a husband should never do! She sells all of his stuff and walks away from him. However, that is not the end of the story. Will she take him back? Will she make him leave? Will she drain his account so dry, he has no were to go?Jamie killed his wife because she asked him to. Will the Jury side with him and let him go. With the prosecuting attorney have such a strong case that the Jury will side with her and leave Jamie to be alone in jail for the rest of his life?The way she tells this story, you cannot put the book down. I have left a couple of examples from chapter 11 at the bottom as to why I feel the way I do about this book. If you do not allow your children to read adult advisory content, do not let them read this. There are sexual interactions so descriptive you will believe you are watching a movie. There are also a few curse words in this book. Sh*t, F**K, and so forth.“He felt himself stirring, blood rushing heavy into his center. He thought of Allie’s body spread in front of him like a banquet and he grew harder. He wanted her to touch him, now. He wondered how someone so comfortable and familiar could make him as excited as someone mysterious and unknown. Cam took Allie’s hand and settled it over his boxer shorts. Sucking in his breath when her fingers slipped through the opening to brush his skin. She moved her hand up and down, alternately stroking and cupping him. There was a pattern to their love making. He felt his balls tighten and he rolled to his side pushing Allie onto her back. He kissed his way up the inside of her thighs. Moving her legs onto his shoulders. All the while thinking of unrelated matters, baseball, world news, duty rosters, to keep himself from going over the edge. But when he came into her, he ceased thinking. His body reacted by itself, thrusting so hard Allie's head knocked against the headboard. He rubbed his check against the L of her neck. He spread his hands in her hair and pinned her to the bed. He knew she didn't feel any pain. No more than he noticed the bites and the scratches on his shoulders and back that Allie tried to sooth like a mother cat when it was over."“The funny thing was, he didn’t picture hopping into bed with her. He imagined sitting down on the floor, his back to a corner, with Mia between his legs. He imagined pulling the towel from her head, and combing the tangles from her hair. He imagined their voices weaving the house into a delicate net that could hold the night as it fell all around them.”“In a flash of leg, Allie crawled over his body. She fit herself neatly to him. Her face in the curve of his neck. Her arms stretched across his middle. Once calf slipped between his own.”How I rate my books---I took a 1/2 star off because I enjoyed the story about the mercy killing but the extra content is not my style of reading.5 Stars I’m glad I read it or I loved it (this doesn’t mean it was your favorite book ever).4 Stars I like it. It’s worth reading.3 Stars It wasn’t very good.2 Stars I don’t like it at all.1 Star I hate it.
    • 3/5
      Picoult's usual fare - an ethical issue handled from a variety of perspectives. This time the question is "what would you do for the person you love?" There are no surprises here, but as always the book is very readable and the characters are real enough to be engaging. Recommended holiday or airport reading: sufficiently engrossing to escape into, but not hugely challenging.
    • 2/5
      I don't know why I keep reading this author because her books always frustrate me. There are 2 major plot lines in the book - one of which is an affair. While the consequences of the affair held my interest, there was never a great reason for it to start in the 1st place - they saw each other, were attracted, and so it began. The authors eludes to the female possibly knowing him before all this started but never goes anywhere with that idea.

      The beginning of the author's books always grab my attention with controversial topics but I feel like she wraps up her stories in a neat little bow at the end instead of really digging into the subject matter.
    • 5/5
      My good friend, Phyllis, recommended this book to me. She knows my connections to sign language. It's one of the new books in our school library this year.Here is a great moment in time captured by the granddaughter of two deaf grandparents. So, it's based on many real family stories of Delia. The story centers around Gussie who hates that her deaf parents aren't like everyone else in Birmingham. It all comes to a head one hot summer. It begins with her humming loudly during the worship service at the deaf church where her father is the minister - she and her two hearing sisters are the only ones that can hear her.Her nasty and obstinate side continues through clandestine searches through the boarders rooms upstairs and continues to her skipping Sunday school at the hearing church downtown. All this naughtiness comes to a screeching halt when she is discovered. Her punishment is a very eye-opening experience which changes the way she sees her family and her life.I worked with hearing impaired students for 2 years in Ohio and lived with a hearing impaired adult. Nancy taught me sign language and a whole lot more. I think she would really like this book.Nancy grew up in the mid 70s when signing was still not really very accepted. She went through hearing schools and was proud of her lip reading abilities. That is until she went to Galludet College in Washington DC. It was there that she understood and embraced what it meant to be deaf. She completely changed her life. She became a teacher of deaf children - starting a preschool for deaf kids in Wooster, OH. That's where I came to know her. Today, Nancy is teaching deaf children in Belize.This book made me think about what life was like for Nancy - growing up different. When I lived in Ohio, Nancy and I went out to eat one time and sat at the table signing back and forth to each other. I didn't really think about it until the waitress came to our table and didn't know what to do. She stood and stared and then bent over and very carefully and clearly asked us for our order. There was a moment when I had to decide what to do... I answered her, she blushed and moved away. In that moment - I understood what it really felt like to be different - to be deaf.
    • 2/5
      Disappointed, and I'm usually a Jodi P fan.I found the story of the euthanasia / murder case took a back seat to the (much less interesting) story of a man cheating on his wife. I found the whole Scottish-clan-in-America both saccarine and hard to believe. I found Cameron's near-instantaneous falling for Mia also implausable. The scattering of supernatural, yet not really going anywhere, events didn't help either. But basically this book didn't have anyone I really liked in it, so spending 400 pages with them wasn't much fun.
    • 5/5
      This book is about finding true love and how far you would actually go to keep the true love that you found with your partner. I rated this book 5 stars because it drew me in on the first page and I couldn't put it down until I finished it.
    • 2/5
      I struggled through the first 150 pages, but eventually ground to a halt. The narrative is so jumpy (never focusing on one character for more than two pages, and sometimes jumping between perspectives in the same paragraph), the writing is so schlocky (old Scottish man has foreboding dreams of ancient Highland chief that make him understand he needs to tell his police chief son to let a murderer slide for Kevorkianing his cancer-wife), and the characters so frequently act in ways far divorced from reality (a cautious, loving wife INSISTS on having her nubile young assistant come over and cook meals for her husband while she's gone on a four-day excursion) that I gave in to total apathy.
    • 3/5
      I liked the topic and it was as always very well written but since there are two big love storys tangling along I didnt enjoy it as much as her other books
    • 2/5
      There are two storylines both about mercy. There is the indictment and trial of a husband who kills his terminally ill wife at her request and his. The other story is of a husband who has a brief affair and the reaction of his wife when she discovers it.
    • 3/5
      I liked this book. I especially loved the discussion of Scottish heritage which I am part Scots. This book strives to ask the question would you kill someone you loved? This is a tough question to take sids on. What would you choose.
    • 1/5
      The book is about a man who "mercy-kills" his wife who has cancer. It's also about the man's cousin, Cam and his wife Allie as well as a selfish vagaband, Mia.Basically, I felt really uncomfortable throughout the whole book. Adultery is never okay. If there is something irrepairable in your marriage or relationship, break it off don't have an affair. I felt Piccoult was trying to romantcize the cheating which really bothered me. I thought Mia was a bitch, pardon my language, but when you go into someone's shop and they automatically give you a job, you do not proceed to have sex with their husband. Furthermore, Cam went away for the weekend with Mia on a weekend which means a lot to his wife.I just wanted to throw the book out the car window into the tires of on-coming traffic.
    • 3/5
      The usual moral dilemma. Mia, Allie, Cam and Jamie
    • 3/5
      Not as well written or riveting as some of her other books.
    • 4/5
      Synopsis: The life-sized debate about euthanasia is raised when Jamie McDonald arrives in the small town of Wheelock after killing his wife. He approaches his cousin Cameron McDonald, Chief of Police, for assistance but is arrested immediately upon his confession. Meanwhile, Cameron has his own life-sized problem as he has an affair with another new arrival in town: the gorgeous Mia Townsend. "Mercy" follows the lives of the McDonald family throughout Jamie's trial, encouraging partners to question how much they truly love each other.My Opinion: Fluently written and gives no clue as to the final outcome. Questions the value of life and love.
    • 4/5
      Typical Picoult. Explores the theme of euthanasia. How much do you really love someone? Are you prepared to kill for them? Also touches on love, marriage and infidelity.
    • 4/5
      The interwoven stories of two married couples--Cam and Allie versus Jamie and Maggie. Love and betrayal are major themes that weaves around the main story of a man who loves his wife so much that he kills her.Jamie MacDonald's wife is dying from multiple cancers and is in a great deal of pain. She does not want to suffer anymore, but refuses to kill herself. Instead, she asks Jamie to kill her. Jamie honors Maggie's wishes and then is overcome with grief and remorse. He confesses to her murder and is subsequently arrested and put on trial. Cam MacDonald, who happens to be Jamie's cousin, is the Chief of Police in Weelock who arrests Jamie. Cam feels trapped in his life and doesn't appreciate Allie, the wife who worships him and will do anything for him. Cam goes looking for excitement in the arms of Mia, a drifter who is befriended by Allie, and turns their quiet lives upside down.
    • 3/5
      An increasingly familiar name to anyone who keeps even half an ear on literary matters, Jodi Picoult has published a number of novels that share a familiar format and focus on topical issues. In fact, Picoult is such a popular writer that I often feel I must be missing something when I reflect on my fairly negative feelings about her novels, so I decided to try one more to help me reach a fairer conclusion. I chose ‘Mercy’ because it covers a particularly interesting topical issue…and because it was on sale for 20p at the library! Would this be the novel that convinced me to change my opinion?The central idea is an engaging one: Jamie MacDonald suffocates his adored wife, Maggie, to release her from a slow, painful death from terminal cancer. Euthanasia is an issue which should grip readers’ interest and ensure that the novel rarely rests between reading sessions. Unfortunately, Jamie (and his story) is overshadowed by the supposed subplot in which a respected man in the community cheats on his rather doormat-like wife. The moral arc of the story is fairly obvious from even this very brief overview. Picoult encourages us to sympathise with Jamie, a broken man who finds that his decision has not led to any relief, and contrast his behaviour with his cousins’. This is such an obvious plot device that it can only add a limited depth to the story. Picoult does not seem to credit her readers with much intelligence and therefore continually feels it necessary to drive home the thematic link through redundant sentences like this: ‘Jamie MacDonald had murdered his wife more gently than Cam had made love to his own’ [after the reader has witnessed both events in the preceding pages].Cam MacDonald has a loving, devoted wife, but he feels stifled by his ties to the town he was born in, which was founded by his great grandfathers. This is exacerbated by wife Allie’s homely inclinations and fear of travelling. Restless and bored, Cam falls instantly ‘in love’ with newcomer Mia and conducts an increasingly reckless affair. For me, this simply didn’t ring true. I’m not a believer in love-at-first-sight anyway (surely love is based on understanding, respect and appreciation of someone’s personality?) but this was very clearly a case of lust-at-first-sight. Picoult tries to suggest that this is a deep and meaningful relationship through never-fully-substantiated references to a shared past, but the evidence of her narrative speaks for itself. The couple are intensely physically aware of each other from their first meeting, confess their love to each other on approximately their third meeting and can’t make it through a scene together without tearing off each others clothes. If this book had a different cover, I might have mistaken parts of it for a Mills and Boon offering (albeit one of the less graphic ones). If we are to believe that Cam is a good man torn apart by love, then surely his grand love affair needed to have, um, love, as its base?Speaking of scenes, the book does feel intensely dramatic. Chapters are usually broken up into short ‘episodes’ in which characters reflect or act in bursts of energy and activity, while the reader moves on, soap like, to the next instalment of someone else’s story. Personally, I prefer a style that focuses more on one character and stays with then for the duration of a chapter. Presumably, this switching about is intended to help us feel a personal connection to each character, as we can learn about their family history and therefore deepen our understanding of their motives. Unfortunately, I felt that Picoult was once again showing her lack of trust in me as a reader by drawing me mini-maps of motives and connectivity. It’s a bit like the nursery rhyme, except instead of piggies going to market we have little girls and boys: this little girl was neglected, so she’s looking for love; this little boy feels the weight of the world on his shoulders, so he needs to escape…Perhaps the most interesting facet of the relationship between Cam and his mistress is that they each reflect what the other has desperately desired, yet if they were to make a life together then neither would be what the other needed. For me, this was perhaps the most interesting idea in the book, suggesting that there are some dreams which can never be realised. Similarly, Jamie realises that his decision to kill his wife could never have had the ending they both imagined. Real life is something harsher, harder, in which compromises have to be made. Ultimately Picoult neither condones nor condemns their choices: she reveals that their choices have their basis in fantasy and tracks the consequences of ignoring reality.Therefore, although the supposed main storyline is slightly overshadowed by the subplot, the overall topics are explored well: what would you do for someone you love? Are relationships ever equal? Picoult is a little clumsy in the way she draws attention to these issues, but they are certainly issues worth exploring. The pace of the action is quick, despite the sustained reflections of the characters, and the central trial, although left rather late in the novel, is interesting. Unlike in previous novels I had read by this author, Picoult does not dodge the central issue and the outcome is highly revealing of her own position. The conclusion of the relationship between Cam and his wife is slightly less satisfying since, like the development of his relationship with Mia, it seems rather hastily done. Picoult could, ultimately, tell us much less and show us much more to create a much more subtle and credible tale.So, is it worth reading? If you’re a fan of Picoult, then this is her standard fare and you’re sure to enjoy it. If you’re more interested in the issues surrounding euthanasia, then I’d recommend you look elsewhere, for the focus of this novel is not really the mercy killing itself, but how far beyond accepted social behaviour someone would go for a loved one. If you like well developed characters who act in psychologically convincing ways over a period of time, then I’d look elsewhere. If you’re more interested in reading about clearly sketched characters in a fast moving plot, then you may well enjoy this novel. For me, I think this will be my last foray into Picoult’s writings…until I once again convince myself that there must be more substance than I’ve yet found in such a best-selling author.
    • 2/5
      Camerone McDonald is the police chief in a small town in Massachusetts. He is also clan chief due to the fact that the townspeople's ancestors all came from the same clan in Scotland. The two story arcs are about euthanasia and a cheating spouse. Neither is done very well. Normally, I enjoy a Picoult book because she is great at character development , it is a quick read, and she usually has a great twist at the end. Not so in this case. This book was awful, and I hated the ending having to do with Cameron & his wife Allie. Very disappointing. I gave it 2 stars only because I was able to finish it.
    • 3/5
      Jodi Picoult is probably one of my favorite authors, excluding Jane Austen, of course. I love the way her books grab a hold of you and don’t let you go until the very end. But probably my favorite thing is that she tackles tough moral issues in her novels.Throughout the novel, I got the distinct suspicion that I had already read Mercy but never finished it. Maybe that was a sign of things to come.I liked the story in Mercy and there certainly where some parts when Picoult grabbed at my heartstrings and tugged with all of her might. However, I don’t believe this is one of Picoult’s best works. The ending was abrupt, almost like she was rushing to finish the novel and that was very detrimental to how I felt after reading this novel.But she question she posed it a tough one: Is it okay to kill a loved one out of mercy? This really hit home for me, seeing how my mom had breast cancer, which one of the characters, Maggie, did too, and the fact that my dad makes me promise that if he’s ever a “vegetable,” I’ll take care of it.
    • 3/5
      I picked the author before the book. This one begins a bit slowly and I had difficulty following and understanding the characters. But Picoult is skilled at posing difficult moral and ethical questions. In this case, euthanasia and marital infidelity.
    • 4/5
      Picoult could be seen as formulaic, but she has a knack of using a fictional story to confront highly charged ethical issues and human relationships.
    • 4/5
      Jodi Picoult is one of the best writer I have ever read. This book captures the internal struggle that most everyone with a terminally ill loved one must go through. I love the way she can show both sides of the coin without showing bias towards one side or the other.
    • 1/5
      I really enjoyed the first Picoult book I read:My Sister's Keeper. I liked the second Picoult book I read: Plain Truth. I hated this book. It seemed all over the place and I couldn't identify with any of the characters. I'm not sure why I wasted my time.
    • 3/5
      I confess not really remembering this book well except that I do not like Jodi Picoult's writing.