The Book of Two Ways: The stunning bestseller about life, death and missed opportunities

Really struggled with this so bored only got to chapter 2.Paid £9.99 on kindle.Very over priced.Looking forward to this too.Usually love her books.Too much detail about egypt, felt more like a history lesson than a novel.Not happy I wasted £10 to end up deleting after 2 chapters.Do amazon really need to charge so expensive for kindle downloads.I know it's a new release but it's not a hard copy.I wish I would have download a sample of book first,But I pre ordered it on the back of authors other amazing books.Her books are usually fantastic.But this one wasnt for me.Sorry jodi. X

A real letdown. I’m a huge fan of Jodi Picoult and I’ve read all her books until this one. I dislike the characters, the story is more an encyclopaedia of Egyptian history and quantum physics. If I want to study those subjects then I’ll enrol on a course, but I found that by the time I’d trawled through the lectures I had lost total interest in what the story was about. There’s no question, Jodi definitely did her research. However, I stopped reading halfway through because I just thought ‘Life’s too short ‘!I will normally persevere with a book, especially when I spend £10 on it, but this time I’ve abandoned it. I was so disappointed as I’d been so looking forward to reading this book. Next time I will download a trial before I buy it.

Having read everything Jodi Picoult has written, I was so excited when this arrived. I was actually even more excited when I saw that it contained elements of Egypt too.However. There are substantial sections of the long chapters that are taken up with information you would learn on a course about Egyptology. Reading the authors notes it is clear that this book was written for her son, who has studied Egyptology in depth, so nice touch.The thing is I totally understand the need to show that you have done your research, but this element of the book comes across as too educational and moves away from the story. It can feel a bit lazy when an author does this too. "I have a story, it needs some meat on the bones, what can I do...ooh I know I will educate my readers with a history lesson and some cool pictures" It doesn't work.The story in this book is actually fascinating, I really bought into the the two story lines, I liked the relationship that the man character has for the two men in her life, with the twists and turns that go with it. The overdoes of history just distracts too much.Dial it back a bit on the history and just give us the amazing stories covering the great subjects moving forward.

If I'd wanted too learn about Ancient Egypt, I would've read a book written by an expeert and not a Jodi Picoult novel.predictable. No proper ending. Definitely not worth the £9.99 I spent.

I love Jodis books but I could not get into this one. I haven't finished it yet but im not really bothered if I do. I don't want to read about ancient Egypt by the blurb it was misleading I thought it was about her life as a death doula prominently.

Very very difficult to do a critique for this as there are many levels to the book in breadth and depth. But I will try. First, on a visceral level, did I love it. Honestly, no, I didnt. Why? Well, while there is absolutely no doubt of the immense amount of research, that went into the book, I fully recognize this and it's awesome, but knowing so much about Egyptology, putting all those stories and so much of that vast knowledge into the book, doesn't make for me, a wonderful story, there is far too much information which I accept the writer wants to impart to the readers but it felt like a text book admittedly on subjects, Egyptology and quantum physics that I only have a passing interest in. Can Jodi Picoult write ? No doubts at all. She is a wonderful writer She can write wonderfully well... and draw us into her characters. But here it's too heavy with academic research that for me detractedfrom the story. it's thought provoking and raised many questions about life and death and missed moments and whether we can ever go back in life and rewrite our history. "There's really no such thing as a wrong choice, we don't make decisions. Our decisions make us.". Do they? I don't know. Lucky Dawn, I thought, to find two different but equally amazing men to love and adore her. What the book implies is that love comes at a cost, and people whatever our choices get hurt. It's a long book, and, for me, doesn't take off until about 22 percent in but it did make me reflect on my life and choices, it's a bit Sliding Doors meets Egyptian history, and the focus on death and live in so many forms doesn't make it a lighthearted read. Heavy, slow by turns and an inconclusive ending but well written and makes you think. Not everyone s cup of tea, but a challenging, .... For me .... Read.

What a disappointment.It felt as if was reading a history book not a novel by Jodi Pucoult.To say that I was so looking forward to this book is an understatement as Jodi Picoult is one of my favourite authors.I honestly thought that I was going to be reading another one of her master pieces in where I would be lost and devouring another one of her books within days but let me say this was not a page turner at all for me.Sadly this book is bogged down Egyptian style textbook, so much so it felt and it really did feel that I was back at school.I hope this is the last time Jodi writes like this and goes back to her usual page turner writing.I will buy her next book as I will not let one bad book put me off this author.Sadly this book imho was a total waste of time and money.The next book by Jodi will certainty be a improvement as imho it can't be any worse.