Destiny’s Cries – Low Kay Hwa
Destiny Wu, 23, has never believed in true love: She thinks that true love is when a guy is willing to sacrifice everything for her. As she is about to end her life on that notion, she meets Alan Nah. Alan Nah, 17, does not know what love is. He does not know how to love someone for he has never loved anyone before, until he meets Destiny.
When they fall in love, Alan learns how to love, and Destiny learns how to be loved. This book is definitely thrilling from the first page and then heartbreaking when the story is about to end. Definitely a book that would not be able to leave your hands once you start reading it.
My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult
Sara Fitzgerald’s daughter, Kate, was just 2 years old when she was diagnosed with a very rare form of Leukaemia. Sara and her husband, will do whatever it takes to save her child like how any mother would protect her child. Both of them failed the blood test, meaning that both their bone marrows are not suitable to be donated to Kate.
There is only one option for creating a perfect match for Kate: Which is to create another baby – specifically designed to save Kate. For Sara, it seems like the only solution and the most perfect solution to safe Kate. In this case, not only do Kate gets to survive, they also gain another beautiful daughter, Anna.
Everything went fine until the day Anna decided to sue her parents to the right to her body. At aged thirteen, she has decided that all the decisions to take something out of her body for Kate has to be her own right – her own right to her own body. Will Kate be able to live on? Highly gripping.
Journey – Low Kay Hwa
When I was ten, my mother called me “ah girl” and I had always responded to her. When I was fifteen, my mother called me “ah girl” in front of my classmates and I scolded her. When I was twenty, my mother still called me “ah girl” aloud and I ignored her completely. I know that, from her point of view, no matter how old I am, I will always be the “ah girl” who calls her “mama”.
From my point of view, my mother is just an old woman in the house who lives with me. Her responsibilities are to make breakfast for me in the morning, give me money to spend in the day, do the laundry in the evening and switching off the lights at night. For all those things that she did, she will have the authority to scold me or ground me.
Until one day, she calls me and says, “Ah girl, I’ve got cancer. I may die within the next six months.”
That is when I realize that my mother is more than that. Definitely another book that when you pick it up, you would not want to put down. This book is so touching you would be able to tear.
The tenth circle – Jodi Picoult
When Daniel Stone was a child, he was the only white boy in a native Eskimo village where his mother taught, and he was teased mercilessly because he was different. He fought back, the baddest of the bad kids: stealing, drinking, robbing and cheating his way out of the Alaskan bush – where he honed his artistic talent, fell in love with a girl and got her pregnant. To become part of a family, he reinvented himself – jettisoning all that anger to become a docile, devoted husband and father. Fifteen years later, when we meet Daniel again, he is a comic book artist. His wife teaches Dante’s Inferno at a local college; his daughter, Trixie, is the light of his life – and a girl who only knows her father as the even-tempered, mild-mannered man he has been her whole life. Until, that is, she is date raped…and Daniel finds himself struggling, again, with a powerlessness and a rage that may not just swallow him whole, but destroy his family and his future.
Mercy – Jodi Picoult
“Cameron McDonald, police chief of a small Massachusetts town, makes the toughest arrest of his life when his own cousin Jamie comes to him and confesses that he killed his terminally ill wife out of mercy.
Now, a heated murder trial plunges the town into upheavel, and drives a wedge into a contented marriage: Cameron, aiding the prosecution in their case against Jamie, is suddenly at odds with his devoted wife, Allie-seduced by the idea of a man so in love with his wife that he’d grant all her wishes, even her wish to end her life. And when an inexplicable attraction leads to a shocking betrayal, Allie faces the hardest questions of the heart: when does love cross the line of moral obligation? And what does it mean to truly love one another?”
