Finished 12- Sing You Home

Well. I just checked and I started this book on March 19th. That is nearly a month of reading it! Wow. Good thing I know I'm a quick reader and most books will be easier to get through. I just had the hardest time convincing myself to pick this book up. Admittedly, there were days it stared at me while I decided to browse the internet or watch tv instead. Tonight, I forced myself to finish. I guess I should warn that I'm about to write some spoilers. But I can't really get through this review without it. Jodi Picoult writes the same formula all the time. She puts a "shock and awe" moment towards the end of the book almost always. And always has some sort of legal battle of catastrophic proportions. This one was no exception, other than the shock and awe moment being in the front end of the book. The main character, Zoe, turns out to be gay. This is not, however, the reason I couldn't get through the book. It turned into a huge issue with her ex-husband fighting for rights to their frozen embryos because he didn't want them to be raised gay. The ex-husband uses all his newly acquired "Christian" friends (I use that term veeeery loosely as they were all extremely judgmental and that is not a property I personally associate as very Christianlike) to fight Zoe. The things they say about gay people are just not very palatable at all. I can't tell you how many times I wanted to throw this book across the room. I know Jodi was likely trying to get a rise out of her readers, but I just found most of it distasteful. Aside from that, it was also kind of slow.