How much do you love your partner? Do you love hem enough to kill for them? Is your love for each other an equal 50/50 percentage or is it 70/30 – with one person loving the other more than the other loves them?
There are the issues which confront the main characters in Mercy, which follows the path of two cousins driven to the extreme by the power of love and their significant others who are affected by their love and actions.
This book gripped me from the start as I wanted to know why there was this woman in her front yard selling her husband’s belonging. I wondered if she was recently widowed or has her husband left her for another woman?
Then there is the story of Jamie and his wife. Why did he kill her and would the law courts believe him when he says that it was an act of mercy?
Then there is Mia – who is she and where has she come from? What is her story?
Picoult brings the story of all her characters together in only the way she can, interweaving them with an exploration of emotional and ethical issues with one of the main questions being – when you love someone, where do you cross the line?
I would recommend reading this book, it is like all of Picoult’s other books – captivating and one you don’t want to put down till you have finished the last page.
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