Perfect Match - Jodi Picoult

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Title: Perfect Match Author: Jodi Picoult Genre: Fiction # pages: 389 Date read: July, 2008

Summary: In the course of her everyday work, career-driven assistant district attorney Nina Frost prosecutes child molesters and works determinedly to ensure that a legal system with too many loopholes keeps these criminals behind bars. But when her own five-year-old son, Nathaniel, is traumatized by a sexual assault, Nina and her husband, Caleb, a quiet and methodical stone mason, are shattered, ripped apart by an enraging sense of helplessness in the face of a futile justice system that Nina knows all too well. In a heartbeat, Nina's absolute truths and convictions are turned upside down, and she hurtles toward a plan to exact her own justice for her son -- no matter the consequence, whatever the sacrifice.

Review: If you were a mother, knowing the law could not protect your son, would you take the law in your own hands? It's not a question I think anybody can answer before they're actually in that mother's shoes.

It is not often that I find myself unable to rate a book, but this is one of those cases. "Perfect Match" is a heart-wrenching roller-coaster ride of a read. Amazingly written, and horribly depressing. I would probably rate it quite high (4 stars... maybe even 5) if it wasn't for the fact that it made me feel awful, and I know I'll never want to read it again. It was a train-wreck I couldn't look away from, but that I doubt I'll ever want to revisit.

The book's going up on bookmooch - not because it's bad, but because I want to protect myself from reading it again.

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