This was recommended to me by a friend, but other than the title and the author I had no info going into reading the book.
In that spirit I won’t reveal any of the details of the story here. The book tells a compelling story, it is educational (at least for me it was), and the pace keeps you turning the pages. There was a lot of action inside a courtroom which I enjoyed – I didn’t realize there would be a legal aspect to the story and that made it more interesting for me.
However, this book came off to me as a sort of mom-targeted. The details, hints and undercurrents of the story were blunt and oversimplified, and I felt like there was a lot more room to gracefully approach the topic rather than hit you over the head with it. So much time and energy is spent on the relationships between mother and son, mother and daughter, and mother and abusive husband.
Overall the book didn’t really work for me. Maybe part of the problem is that it was written by two authors. For me, the oversimplification of the issues was the biggest problem of this book.
Next I am reading The Quiet American by Graham Greene.
