** spoiler alert ** I have read other Jodi Picoult books, but this one was different than the others. While I haven’t read all of her books, I notice similar patterns. One is that she likes the plot to focus around a child. She also likes to switch points of view between other characters (in this book, between Mariah, Ian, Colin, and Millie), and finally includes the child’s point of view in the last chapter (in this case, Faith). However, what was strange about this one was the lack of a surprise ending. Not to give much away in Picoult’s other books, but usually there is a twist ending that no one see coming. At first, I thought Keeping Faith was going to have a large surprise, that Faith wasn’t really talking to God and that there was some scientific and plausible explanation for all the strange events that happened. I felt a little cheated when I got to the end and was suppose to believe that Faith really was experiencing something. Overall, it was very anticlimactic. If I learned something about writing from this book, it’s that you have to be faithful to your readers. You have to give them a good conclusion. I was expecting something really cool, not something I could predict from reading the summary on the back cover.