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| The Pact: A Love Story | 
 enlarge | Author: Jodi Picoult
Creator: George Guidall
Publisher: Recorded Books
Category: Book
List Price: $34.99
Buy New: $21.08
You Save: $13.91 (40%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 143738
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Items: 15
Pages: 13
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 5.9 x 5.3 x 2
ISBN: 1419361457
EAN: 9781419361456
ASIN: 1419361457
Publication Date: October 2005
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For eighteen years the Hartes and the Golds have lived next door to each other, sharing everything from Chinese food to chicken pox to carpool duty. Parents and children alike are best friends - so it's no surprise that in high school Chris and Emily's friendship blossoms into something more. They've been soul mates since they were born. When the midnight calls come in from the hospital, no one is prepared for the appalling truth: Emily is dead at seventeen from a gunshot wound to the head as part of an apparent suicide pact. The gun holds a single unspent bullet that Chris tells police he intended for himself, but a local detective has doubts. And the Hartes and Golds, in a single terrifying moment, must face every parent's worst fear: do we ever really know our children at all?
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 Oy, what a book June 7, 2008
This book was good, but a little tedious to read. I kept silently screaming, "Tell us what really happened already!!!!!!!"
 Disappointing! Not up to Picoult's standards March 21, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
What a disappointment. I've read everything published by Ms. Picoult and loved nearly all of it until this book. She fails to create a plausible picture of the factors compelling Em to be desperately suicidal, and why-oh-why wouldn't Chris try to get the woman he loves help? -- that is help to live, not to die? Unlike Picoult's usual work, The Pact is awkward and slow-moving, and the plot is full of holes. Too bad; not up to Picoult's standards.
 Addicting December 30, 2006
As a 19 year old Engineering student, I find free-time incredibly hard to come by, and when I do manage to have some... I'll admit, I often spend it watching brain-numbing television to recuperate.
I received this book as a birthday gift, and started reading it during a study-break, fully intending to get no more than possibly 30 pages through it, and THEN watch a little TV. However, once I started reading it, I literally couldn't put it down. I hear people say this about books all the time, but I've never truly experienced it.
This book began near the end of the actual story being told, and through a series of flash-backs relays a story that is so tragically heart-wrenching that I soon found myself addicted.
The reason that I couldn't stop reading was that because of the way the book was set up, I already knew how it ended; it was just a matter of finding out why and how. I found myself empathizing with the parents, because just as they were trying to come to grips with the reality of the tragic incident, so was I.
By the end of the book I still found myself wondering why that had to be the outcome. This book was by no means as satiating as someone who is expecting the 'answer-to-life' wants it to be, but I think that's the very nature of suicide - is there ever a situation where it truly HAS to be the solution?
I have recommended this book to all of my friends, and now I'm taking the time to recommend it here to anybody who enjoys angst, romance or just all-around well written stories. Enjoy!!
One of Picoult's best about love and tragic loss-A+++ November 9, 2006
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
This was one of those books that are hard to lay down. Picoult is one of my favorite authors and I don't think she knows how to write a bad story.
The Harte's (Nick's parents), and the Gold's, (Emily's parents), were neighbors and the very best of friends. Their children were practically born together just a few months apart from each other. And Nick and Emily were inseparable growing up. They were true soulmates. But things changed when Emily becomes pregnant with Chris's child, and she becomes depressed wanting to commit suicide. She is afraid to tell her parents for fear she won't be the perfect daughter that they expect of her. And she never does tell Chris, but instead wants him to help her plan her death. Of course this completely breaks Chris up, but rather then see Emily so miserable, he goes along with her-taking his father's gun out of the cabinet at home-loading it with 2 bullets. One for her, and then one for him. They go off to a secluded place where they've always gone, and Chris carries the gun, but still tries to fight Emily out of it. She grabs the gun out of his hand, and with her finger on the trigger, the gun goes off. Emily dies later at the hospital, and Chris though he gets hurt, lives.
This event happens on a Friday night, when both families usually eat out, which they were doing when this happened. But they had no idea until later when they each returned home and got a phone call in the middle of the night of the terrible tragedy had taken place.
The story from there is that Chris of course gets the blame. Later he is arrested and put in jail until the trial. He is out of his mind the whole time, trying to remember exactly what happened. Whether he gets off or not remains to be seen until later in the book. His attorney, Jordan, goes to fight for him.
The families naturally split. Melanie and Augusta Chris's mom are no longer friends but bitter enemies. Melanie won't accept her daughter's death, and acts just as though she is still alive. Her hatred for Chris as well as his mother now is very real. But interestingly enough, Melanie's husband Michael, and Augusta begin having an affair. But that is short-lived as the two families move away and separate from each other later in this book.
Excellent Book August 27, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is an excellent story, but it does get a little long. I got the audio cd because I was going on a long drive, but I would have preferred it in print because it takes longer to listen than to read.
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