The grandma (who was a total nutter) kept reciting Romans 9:13: “ JACOB HAVE I LOVED BUT ESAU HAVE I HATED.” When Louise looks it up, she realizes that it is God speaking and that everyone in the Bible loved Jacob, the younger twin, more than his older brother, Esau. I did like the title it was by far my favorite element of the book. Also, there was never any resolution of that, unless you call “sister moves away and then you move away” a resolution. And, yes, there was an element of that, but not much. Jacob Have I Loved, for instance, made it sound like the book would be about Louise’s struggle to not be overshadowed by her twin sister. One of my little pet peeves is when the blurb about the book is not really correct. Marvel that the ending makes no sense to you and wonder if you were simply too bored with this book to appreciate the fabulousness of the ending ( readers told me it was fabulous).
Weep that you wasted your time reading this.
Louise feels like she doesn’t really belong, that she will never escape the island (but does she want to?), that she doesn’t have any real friends, and that any time something starts to go right for her, it is snatched away by someone else. The sister, Caroline, is pretty and petite, an amazing singer, and all around the favorite daughter. So the long and short of the story is: Louise and her family (mom, dad, crazy old grandma, and younger twin sister) live on an island in the Chesapeake Bay. Even with my super-speed reading, I find that to be a very very poor ratio. And I only really enjoyed about fifteen minutes of the total reading. I started it in the car on the way up to Oklahoma City and finished it the next day. Basically, I would have enjoyed this book far more if I’d just held it instead of actually opening it and reading it. It was a small book, with a nice cover, and I liked the feeling of holding it in my hands. I absolutely loved Bridge to Terabithia, which I read about two years ago, so I had high hopes for Jacob Have I Loved. There’s no use lying about it I was deeply disappointed in this book.
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