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House Rules
by Jodi Picoult
My "rule" for novels: Authors, let the story tell itself! (Don't try to explain it to me and tell me what I should be thinking.) I liked the first 1/2 to 2/3 of this book -- a murder mystery in which the accused has Asperger's. I gained some new insights into this puzzling disorder. I don't always like novels with a multiple person narrative structure but it worked well in this case and I appreciated the honesty of the characters, But the final portion of the book became tedious. As the murder trial progressed, the book felt repetitious and I felt like I was being lectured about Asperger's. I correctly guessed the "murder mystery" long before the story ended (duh! ) and kept wondering: "Since the defendant never lies, why doesn't someone just ASK him what happened???) I thought the romance was corny and distracting (channeling Danielle Steele!) Too bad -- this was almost like reading two distinct books.