Kay’s Comments (group member since Jan 28, 2009)

Kay’s comments from the Between the Lines group.

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It's one of my favorite books and I love reading it over and over again -- but I totally agree with Fiona too :)

Am I the only one who was disappointed at the ending (not the very end, the one with Anna and Kate, but the last scenes at the trial -- all the book was about making choices, about Anna's right to a normal life of her own, to have her own two kidneys, and then, at the end, she

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discloses that Kate made her go through the trial, Kate didn't want the kidney, Kate wanted to die. So Anna's fight wasn't in fact about Anna at all but about Kate. Syrupy and corny if you ask me as Kate is dying anyway and she should have the right to her own choices, so all the moral issues that gave the book its strength were gone. There were no longer two sides (Anna vs her mother and Kate, both sides right and both wrong at the same time), but one, obviously right (as difficult as it may have been for her parents everyone agrees that Kate's choices should be respected). Perhaps the obvious choice but not the best one for a book I found great until then.

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).

I liked it but did not love it for some reason.

My favorite character was the old doctor by far :)

I loved Breaking Dawn precisely because everyone got a happy ending (but that's just me, a happy-endings lover :P )

That does sounds like a case of (what I would call) reader's block to me. Perhaps the cure might be some very light reading (chick lit?) that can be read in short installments whenever you have time. :)