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A review by anjalisudarsan
House Rules by Jodi Picoult
2.0
This book seemed to have a lot of potential for a courtroom drama and a mystery-themed story.
It’s also narrated in different people’s perspectives - from the mother, jacob (the boy with asperperger's), the ignored brother, the defending lawyer, and the police inspector. I feel like the book could've been cut short by a lot, and that it was obvious - they could've just asked him the right questions and got the answer. This was a lot of rambling and back and forth.
I also detested the whole mama bear trope - there was literally a sentence where the mom says something along the lines of 'I am not upset about my son being a murderer, just that another mother’s child is dead'. I hated how she was so over-defensive about Jacob, it was getting onto my nerves. It’s a mom thing, definitely, but it was off putting reading about how her son could do no wrong, that he was pure etc etc. Like cmon, just LOOK at your other son.
I think there was an information overload on Aspergers, which was also a bit tedious to read. Including the link between autism and vaccines, that came out of nowhere!
It’s also narrated in different people’s perspectives - from the mother, jacob (the boy with asperperger's), the ignored brother, the defending lawyer, and the police inspector. I feel like the book could've been cut short by a lot, and that it was obvious - they could've just asked him the right questions and got the answer. This was a lot of rambling and back and forth.
I also detested the whole mama bear trope - there was literally a sentence where the mom says something along the lines of 'I am not upset about my son being a murderer, just that another mother’s child is dead'. I hated how she was so over-defensive about Jacob, it was getting onto my nerves. It’s a mom thing, definitely, but it was off putting reading about how her son could do no wrong, that he was pure etc etc. Like cmon, just LOOK at your other son.
I think there was an information overload on Aspergers, which was also a bit tedious to read. Including the link between autism and vaccines, that came out of nowhere!