Book Reviews

The Cruelty by Scott Bergstrom

Reviewed by K. Yanna, March 2020

Gwendolyn Bloom embarks on a journey filled with assassins, spies, and cunning criminals when her father mysteriously vanishes. Racing around the world to find her father, Gwendolyn meets people who help her - and some who manipulate her. To find her father, and keep herself, alive, Gwendolyn must be as devious, imaginative, and resourceful as the people keeping her father captive.

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Reviewed by R. Yelk, October 2019

13 year old Anna Fitzgerald has only one purpose in life. To donate whatever her older sister, Kate, needs. Kate is dying from acute leukemia and becomes in desperate need of a kidney. But Anna is tired of always giving Kate a part of her and having no one think of her own health. Since she doesn’t want to give up her the kidney, Anna decides to sue her parents for medical emancipation. She is forced to make a decision, keep her kidney to maintain her own health or save her dying sister at her own expense?