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theshadedbuffalo 's review for:
House Rules
by Jodi Picoult
As a social work major in a graduate program, I have a huge interest in autism and the spectrum. I had been looking forward to this book for a long while when I found it on sale at my local book store (sad, true, but I'm so cheap) and had to snatch it up. All in all, I really enjoyed it. I knew whodunit since the woman was killed, but I don't think that the issue of figuring out the mystery was they key point in this novel. It was to wade through the mind of a man/boy who had been diagnosed with Asperger's and to understand a little about the disorder. I have studied a lot about this particular ASD, and while I think she did go a little overboard with his eccentricities, I believe she did right by her character of Jacob. All individuals are obviously different, so she had the artistic right to make him struggle with Asperger's any way that she deemed fit in accordance to her research and the wonderful people she met during the research process. Thanks for an interesting read, MS. Picoult!