What happens when you do all the wrong things for all the right reasons?
As an assistant district attorney, Nina Frostt prosecutes the sort of crimes that tear families apart. But when Nina and her husband discover that their five-year-old son Nathaniel has been sexually abused, it is her own family that is devastated. The world Nina inhabits now seems different from the one she lived in yesterday; the lines between family and professional life are erased; and answers to questions she thought she knew are no longer easy to find.
Overcome with anger and desperate for vengeance, Nina ignites a battle that may cause her to lose the very thing she's fighting got.
How far should a mother go in the name of love - and justice?
I have been a follower and reader of Jodi Picoult books since her first novel Songs of the Humpback Whale, which incidentally, I didn't particularly like very much but, the more books of hers I have read the more I want to read.
Perfect Match was published here in the UK in 2005 and a work colleague lent it to me as part of our office book swap. It has had very mixed reviews as to whether the attention to detail was good enough. I don't know enough about american law and what happens within their court room system to know how accurate all that was. There is a point in the story that talks about DNA and how someone who has received a Bone Marrow Transplant can have two DNA, there own and that of a borrowed DNA from their donor. Now I don't know whether this is factually accurate I am sure Ms Picoult would of done her home work about this particular subject but I would have to run it past one of my haematology colleagues to know whether it is or not and I'm not sure I am brave enough to ask that question in case I made myself look a complete numpty. Will put an update at the bottom of this post should I ever pluck up the courage.
On the question of just how far would you go to protect your child? Well I'm not quite sure that many of us would go to the extremes that the character Nina Frost went to, but if any of us were put in that same position how do you think you would react in order to get justice for your child.
These days I don't get to read as much as I used to and have to find books that I can pick up and immediately be back into the story from where I left it. I found this was possible with the Perfect Match and overall it was a good read and I would certainly recommend it.
A short & sweet post today
Back again soon I hope.
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Hi there.I do hope you don't mind me saying this as it's just my opinion and no offence mean't.I just find her books rather emotionally draining but no doubt she is a very talented author.It might just be me,and experiences in my own life.xx
ReplyDeleteNot at all Lee we all like what we like don’t we. I definitely think I will pick a book to read dependent on my mood. Some of her books I love like The Story Teller and My Sisters Keeper others aren’t quite my cup of tea and sometimes as you say is down to experiences in our own lives.
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I’ve read a few Picoult novels and really enjoyed them all except one. I like that she raises questions, but I haven’t read this one xx
ReplyDeleteSome are a bit like marmite you either love them or hate them but mostly I love them. She tackles subjects others wouldn't and she makes it easy to follow her characters. I still have many more of her novels to read yet as I was late to the party in discovering Jodi Picoult.
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I really enjoy her books, but haven't come across this one in the library yet. I think I'll have to hunt through the catalogue and place a reservation. Thanks for the recommendation. xx
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome. I must admit I prefer her later novels to the early ones but this was a good read especially as my mind wasn't particularly in the right place for concentrating so was made easier by the fact I could pick it up and get right back into the storyline as and when.
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