 "A must read" | 2009-10-30 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3IGXKQQ2SU6BR |
| This is my new favorite author. Her books are original and hit upon sensitive subject matters that may be too heavy for some, but if you are a true avid reader, trust me, you will appreciate her writing. This book deals with the too oft heard subject of child sexual abuse. I felt the mother's anger and who knows how we would react if put in the same position. I found the book to be so true to life. The little boy in the book, who really, is the center of this story, is a wonderful, loving character, I am sure all of us know someone like him. I also enjoyed the relationships the mom had with her long time friend, as well as the committment to her husband that shone through in the end of the book. Although this authors books do cover sensitive subjects, they should be required reading material in school for high school kids. |
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 "Amazing Story, Annoying Ending" | 2009-09-11 |
| - Reviewed By User: AVX2EN7GVVEQX |
I'm reading this book for my book club and one of my friends who finished it early declared that she hated it and had to throw it across the room upon finishing it. At that stage I was only half way through Perfect Match and I thought clearly she was insane because every minute I wasn't reading it I was chomping at the bit to get back to rear imprint on my couch to resume my mass consumption of the book.
The subject matter is gut-wrenching, the plot twists are ridiculous, and her 360 degree story telling method is just incredible. What's not to like? I'll tell you. The ending. The ending is what killed this book for me.
I read the last 100 pages in one sitting, late at night, somewhat tipsy, and despite all that I still had the energy to sit upright at the final plot twist and shout, "WHAT?!?!?!?!?! No no no no no no. NO." I promptly cast the book on the floor and the redeemed my opinion of my friend's sanity.
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars (the massively annoying ending only occurs in the last 20 pages of the book, which is roughly 6% of the whole story. I can't judge a book based on 6% when 94% had me HOOKED)
Suggested With: A reading group to discuss the highly controversial issues presented in the story. |
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| "One Of Picoult's Best." | 2009-08-30 |
| - Reviewed By hmouse101 |
| Jodi Picoult always writes page turners. I am not always happy with her endings but I can't seem to ever be able to put one of her books down. Perfect match is the story of Nina, a woman who prosecutes child molesters. Her own son is molested. How will she react now that it is her child who has been harmed? I don't want to tell you too much about the story because it takes many twists and turrns right to the end. Enjoy! |
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| "rapid eye movement reading" | 2009-07-07 |
| - Reviewed By User: A316C4L01UTMGZ |
| I bought this book for my fiance to complete her collection of J.P. works. She pored through it so quickly that this page-turner became a "page-burner!" Ever the thorough researcher, the author packs in plenty of twisting surprises to feed the reading frenzy. Now that she's reached the end of the limb of J.P. literature my fiance is losing her grip as she desperately awaits the next offering from the pen of Picoult. |
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 "Ugh!" | 2009-07-06 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3G3CJROFADRIC |
I think the only person more insane than the main character of this novel is me, for continously buying Jodi Picoult books only to be disgusted and frustrated. If that's what you're looking for, this one delivers! Nina Frost (and I do believe she appears in other Picoult novels) is a prosecutor completely blindsided by her five year old's son molestation into committing irrational acts that we're all supposed to be sympathetic to, because after all, isn't she only doing what we would all like to do in her place?
*Spoilers* I'm not even finished yet and the book has so many credibility issues I may not finish. First of all, the main character is self centered, irrational, and annoying. She should minimally have her kid taken from her permanently; maximally be locked up for life. First, I had to deal with my disgust that she would murder her son's molester at his arraignment and think she should get away with it scot-free. I don't care what he did to your son; nothing justifies that sort of act. There are parents out there who have had children brutally murdered and had to watch their child's murderer get away with it, and they don't do what she did. Then, to make matters worse, it turns out she murdered an innocent man. So, what does she do when she realizes this? Does she try to clear the name of the man she accused and then murdered? No. She tries to cover it up, and then makes plans to murder the real molester, who happens to be the original man's half-brother. Might as well kill both of some poor woman's sons. Someone lock this woman up and throw away the key already!
Also, the whole way the molestation happened was unrealistic. First of all, making the molester be a priest was trite and just wrong. Second of all, the priest went from 0 to 100 in five minutes...meaning, he just took the little boy and brutally assaulted him.There was no seduction of the child, which normally happens in child molestation...a honeymoon period to gain the child's trust. And the priest was only a visitor, not well known to the child. Okay...what five year old child WOULDN'T have gone screaming and shrieking out of there to his mother? Five year old kids are too little to have sexual shame, and the priest didn't even threaten Nathaniel to be quiet-just put his fingers to his lips. Give me a break already. Any normal five year old would be screeching out the story to the first adult they ran across.
But no, Nathaniel is immediately rendered mute, if you read his perspective on the incident. Yet, it takes his parents WEEKS to figure out he isn't talking...if you read the beginning, Nina is thinking about the last time they went to mass being weeks before and remembering that he was wearing different underwear. Yet then Nathaniel's version says he stopped talking the very day it happened. Gee. Tremendously neglectful parents and teachers not to notice a kid not talking. Not to mention, weeks later a physician found abrasions on the child related to the attack-how did his parents not notice this? Do they not bathe and dress this child? And what parent would not question the fact that her child returned from Sunday School wearing a different pair of underwear? Oh, wait...Nathaniel actually explains why when questioned. The same kid that Picoult later reports stopped talking after the attack WAS talking previously....after the attack. He just randomly decides to stop talking weeks later. Picoult needs a better editor.
If you're looking for sharp paced and suspenseful, this book does the trick. It certainly sucks you into the story. But (and I do believe I've said this in other reviews) it's like a Law and Order :SVU episode. You enjoy it while you're watching it, but by the end you're a little disgusted at how much the far fetched plot doesn't make rational sense.
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| "Rated R" | 2009-07-03 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1K0P1N232YQCD |
| I liked how this book was written from different points of view and how the subject matter was thought-provoking. However, I did not like this book as well as Picoult's My Sister's Keeper. It was also difficult for me to read on a personal level due to my experience working with sexually abused children. This book contains some sex, bad language, and enough F words to classify it as rated R if made into a movie. |
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