You are considering whether to buy a product. You look at the reviews. Would the following review decrease or increase the chances of you buying the product? Review title: Keep your tissues handy! Product review: When my book club met to discuss this book last month, the first question asked was "How hard did you cry?". I personally feel that any story in which I can come to care about the characters so much that I am deeply moved by the events in their lives is an excellent and worthy read.Jodi Picoult does just that -- she draws you in to care about all the characters so that you feel just as conflicted as each individual in the story does about the difficult subject they are facing. The issues that Picoult tackled were large, weighty ones, and often I am skeptical of such ambitions, typically judging authors on their use of the subject as a cheap, cliched device. I did not feel that way with this novel. I thought the issue was explored sensitively and moreover, that the characterization was at the forefront of the novel, which is what kept it from being a cheap storyline. It made for an interesting discussion about such a difficult and interesting issue.
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