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July 24, 2006
"Perfect Match" by Jodi Picoult
"Perfect Match" is the first Jodi Picoult book I have read and despite her being a best selling author, I suspect it will be the last – at least for a very long time. This book set me on edge, and I never did connect with the major characters. The story felt like a Law and Order “ripped from the headlines” episode as we moved from crime to investigation to court. In this book a 5 year old boy suddenly turns mute and as we move through the first several chapters we discover he was sexually molested by a priest. Then his mother, the lead character in the book and an assistant district attorney, decides to take the law into her own hands and in an act of vigilante justice shoots and kills the accused in open court. In my mind after that the story really goes down hill as she uses inside knowledge to manipulate the justice system. The narration jumps between characters and their perspectives. At times this was helpful, at least I could tell what the mute child was thinking, but sometimes there weren’t enough clues in context for me to tell whose head I was supposed to be in and that just added confusion.
ISBN: 0-7434-1873-5
Pam, reserves
Posted by terhaar at July 24, 2006 01:49 PM