The Pact: A Love Story
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Friendship, loyalty, lifelong like — and teenage suicide. A riveting, timely, and terrifying novel from an acclaimed writer who skillfully intertwines the intimate perceptions of Anne Tyler with the dramatic tension of John Grisham
The Golds and the Hartes, neighbors for eighteen years, have permanently been inseparable. So have their children-and it’s no surprise that in high school Chris and Emily’s friendship blossoms into something more. But the bonds of family tree, friendship, and passion-which had seemed so indestructible — suddenly threaten to unravel in the wake of unexpected tragedy.
When midnight calls from the hospital come in, no one is ready for the truth. Emily is dead at seventeen from a gunshot wound to the head. There’s a single unspent bullet in the gun that Chris pilfered from his father’s cabinet-a bullet that Chris tells police he proposed for himself. But a local detective has doubts about the suicide pact that Chris describes.
This extraordinary, heart-rending novel questions questions that every parent faces: How much do we know about our children? Our friends?
What if . . .? As its chapters unfold, alternating between an idyllic past and an unthinkable present, The Pact paints an quick portrait of families in anguish . . . and makes an astonishingly suspenseful courtroom drama, as Chris finds himself on examination for murder.
It’s rare to find a writer who combines Alice Hoffman’s gift for evoking everyday life in pellucid prose with a remarkable ability to make a officially authorized page-turner that will keep you up all night reading, but this is such a book. The Pact rings right: wonderfully experimental, truly moving, frightening, and utterly impossible to place down.
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I read this book twice just to make sure i didn’t miss anything the first time. It kept me coming back to see what the characters would do next!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
the book was listed as “very excellent” condition wise, but arrived with most of the pages with large diagonol creases in them. it could have been more acurately labeled, although shipping was quick
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
I cannot judge that this book has an overall rating of 4.5 stars. If you find yourself enjoying this book, you seriously need to take a creative writing or basic english class.
Absolutely horrible writing on par with a high school english class, at best. Very cliche and humdrum writing style; it seems as if phrases are recycled throughout the book as well. Also very overdramatic and, in no way, is this realistic. Furthermore, there was really no development of the characters.
I honestly could not sit through more than 3 pages of this book lacking having to set it down and take a break. I WANT to like this book, but I can’t.
Perhaps one of the most poorly written books that I have read in the last 5 years.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Ok, let me start by adage this…I like reading books. Especially books that really touch my soul. This book, although the tale was very well thought out and it does trigger certain emotions in you, it is not one that i have loved reading. Yes, i cried at the end, cried for the characters and for what they lost (life, like and lifelong friendship, on everyone’s account) but did i delight in to read it. NO! Personally, i like positive books, ones where i can smile at the end. This book made me mad. Of course i was pleased with the end result of the examination, but i was very upset and mad with how the lives of the characters turned out.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
OK, sure, a whole string of fives and then comes my three. Don’t get me incorrect, I’m not dogging the book in terms of content, writing, or flow, but I do have a problem with the f-word or similarly offensive words being used on every additional page. This could have been a fantastic book if the leader didn’t virtually jab the reader in the side with a branding iron by slapping the reader an unnecessary use of profanity. The end result is the reader attempts to relax, and delight in the book, but just when that starts to take place……. *smack* out of nowhere there’s another one. It’s enough to place the reader on edge, and it does. Please subtract two stars for me. I really wish I could have agreed this book full inscription. It cudda been fantastic.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5