This changed to annoyance as I found her behavior at times very childish, despite her being 17 years old. For example, I started out being very sympathetic to Cara's situation. As with any Picoult novel, you may think you are strictly on one character's side or another, but it's never so cut and dry. This ends up bringing the estranged family, including Luke's ex-wife and son, back together in order to support each other and decide what should be done for Luke, who suffered immense brain damage. This novel follows the aftermath of a serious car accident, which injures Luke and his daughter Cara. I have yet to find one of her books that I don't like, this being no exception. I was perusing the new releases and best sellers at Walmart, and found myself automatically gravitating toward Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult. It was an enjoyable book, and I feel like I learned a lot about wolves, but it was not necessarily one of my favorites by Picoult. I was also waiting for a big ending, but it was somewhat anti-climactic. I think this was primarily due to the quality of the characters: none of them were very likable.
While I liked the basic story line and I read this book very quickly because I wanted to know how it would end (and because Picoult's writing style lends itself to quick reading), I didn't feel the emotional connection that you might expect with a story such as this.
There were things I liked about this book and things that I didn't care for. This story also includes a lot of factual information about wolf packs - their familial and social behaviors - which is interwoven and compared to those of human behaviors. As with many of her books, there is both family and courtroom drama, as well as some family secrets that are not immediately revealed. I love the way she can approach both sides of a controversial subject and make the reader see things from both points of view. As with virtually all of Picoult's books, this one deals with a controversial subject matter, which is, more than anything, what continues to draw me to her books. His sister is not yet old enough to legally make this decision, but unfortunately, she and Edward do not see eye to eye. Following the accident, Edward is summoned home by his mother (Luke's ex-wife), and as he is Luke's only adult living blood relative, he is forced to make a decision about whether to cease life support or allow his father to live in a vegetative state.
Luke's son, Edward, left home 6 years previous at age 18 following an argument with his father and has not spoken to him since. Cara sustains only a moderate shoulder injury, but Luke suffers a traumatic brain injury and is on life support, not expected to regain consciousness. Luke Warren, an expert on wolves and wolf behavior (primarily because he's studied and even lived with them), is involved in an auto accident after picking up his 17-year-old daughter Cara from a party.
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