Wish You Were Here

I know my reading speed has slowed considerably this year, and despite this actually taking me a whole week to read, I felt like I couldn't put this down.

And. I am so glad I didn't read this earlier. The descriptions of symptoms Finn was seeing in the ICU were terrifying, and I am very freaked out by descriptions of medical things, and if I had read this before having (a mild case of) Covid myself, I know I would have worried way more. Even though things were way worse in the early days, before we knew anything about the virus, before Delta and vaccinations and Omicron. There is a lot of trauma revisited in this book, so take care of yourself if you do choose to read this. (I know I wouldn't have if I had not been gifted this by my MIL. And if we weren't moving, and had literally less than 10 books on my nightstand that aren't packed yet. It was pretty serendipitous, I guess.)

I know Picoult has a reputation for being kind of a preachy issues-writer, but I didn't feel that this was super preachy until literally the epilogue. I am a little mad at the epilogue, even though I knew it was inevitable, I just didn't like the implication in the last few lines; it felt counter to everything that had come before it.

I feel like I can't really talk about this without spoiling major plot points, but I did enjoy learning about art in regards to Diana's job at Sotheby's, and about the Galapagos islands.