A review by cj_mo_2222
A Good Mother by Lara Bazelon

3.0

This book features two new mothers, Luz, a young woman on trial for murdering her husband and Abby, the attorney who is defending her. The circumstances surrounding the murder and Abby's backstory is intriguing. Unfortunately, neither Luz nor Abby was easy to connect with and some of the other significant characters in the story are just as hard to like. There are also some disturbing and unbelievable things that take place between Abby and the judge assigned to the case and also between Luz and Abby's co-counsel, Will, that spoil the good things about the book. The dramatic courtroom scenes are what kept my interest and kept me reading the book when I probably would have given up otherwise. I strongly disliked several parts of the story, but since I liked the suspense of the case, I averaged both opinions into an overall 3 star rating of the book.

Thank you to NetGalley and Hanover Square Press for providing an advance copy of this ebook. My review is voluntary and unbiased.