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A review by jsabrina
House Rules by Jodi Picoult
2.0
I usually enjoy Picoult's novels very much, but I got impatient with the characters in this one and could see the ending coming barely a third of the way into the book.
Picoult is usually very good at allowing her characters to be falliable but not stupid, but again and again and again characters who should know better fail to ask Jacob the key question: "Did you kill ___?" Instead they ask all kinds of other questions without ever being specific -- despite the fact that we are told again and again and again Jacob is unable to follow social cues, be intuitive, or be anything other than literal. The whole book could have erased if someone had simply said to him, "Tell me exactly what you did from the moment you arrived at the house." Case closed.
Picoult is usually very good at allowing her characters to be falliable but not stupid, but again and again and again characters who should know better fail to ask Jacob the key question: "Did you kill ___?" Instead they ask all kinds of other questions without ever being specific -- despite the fact that we are told again and again and again Jacob is unable to follow social cues, be intuitive, or be anything other than literal. The whole book could have erased if someone had simply said to him, "Tell me exactly what you did from the moment you arrived at the house." Case closed.