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Have you ever tried to write a review but no matter how hard you tried , you just couldn't articulate your thoughts properly I feel your pain.
I've written and deleted this review more times than I care to admit, Can you say scatter brain I apologize in advance for this condensed rambling mess, which will tell you nothing about the book itself, is the best I could come up with :
Thankfully, there are numerous fantastic reviews on GR.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE read them,
sitelinkDefending Jacob is precisely the reason I love to read, All of my favorite books have something in common, Each novel has tugged at my grinchy heart strings in one way or another, This book is no exception, The array of emotions I felt while reading this story ranged from, . .
angry
naive
shocked
compassionate
disappointed
hypocritical
anxious
judgmental
hopeful
hopeless
flabbergasted
GRATEFUL
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In other words, I'm FAR from perfect, But, I'm not half bad at this mother amp wife gig either,
. . I can live with that :
Friends, if you want to read a thought provoking story, filled with twist and turns, ONE CLICK THIS BOOK.
You may end up being a better parent for it, MWAH!
Special thanks to Angel for such a fantastic recommendation
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This legal/family thriller is strongly reminiscent of sitelinkPresumed Innocent, the novel by Scott Turow that basically set the standard for every legal thriller that would follow.
In this case, the main protagonist is a longtime assistant D, A. named Andy Barber. He's second in command to a D, A. with higher political aspirations. The two are friends Andy gets all the high profile cases because he's very good at what he does, Andy is married to the love of his life, Laurie, and they have a teenaged son named Jacob,
When one of jacob's classmates is stabbed to death in a local park while on his way to school, the entire community is shocked.
Andy immediately takes charge of the case, determined to see that the killer is severely punished once the police find him or her, But then, Andy is stunned when his own son becomes the principal suspect in the killing after classmates reveal that Jacob had a knife much like the one the police have described as the missing murder weapon.
Andy insists, of course, that Jacob is innocent, He simply knows this intuitively because he loves his son, But Jacob is indicted and eventually tried for the crime, Andy's boss distances herself that friendship is ended, and the case is given over to the number two prosecutor behind Andy, an ambitious, insecure prosecutor who is determined to make his bones by successfully prosecuting the case against Andy's son.
Inevitably, all of this takes a toll on Andy and Laura's marriage, and so this is also a portrait of a family in crisis,
I had fairly mixed emotions about this book, I did not like any of the characters, who all seemed flat and onedimensional, None of them was very sympathetic, and I found that I frankly didn't care much whether Jacob was convicted or not, I also didn't care about what might happen to his parents' marriage, Where the book came alive for me, though, was in the courtroom scenes, These are very well done, and once the trial finally began, I couldn't put the book down,
So a mixed review for me, I really enjoyed parts of this book a lot, but others troubled me, An okay read, but not a great one, I'm annoyed. As I said in one of my updates, this is an odd book, a psychological thriller with little understanding of psychology, It's written in the first person from the father's point of view, He was very annoying with his stubborn blocking of the truth from himself to his unemotional narration, If the author meant to convey a kind of underlying emotional tension, he failed miserably, The ending felt like a cheap shot, and I feel cheated, Depuis vingt ans, Andrew Barber est procureur adjoint du comté de Massachusetts, Admiré par ses pairs pour sa combativité au tribunal, respecté de la communauté, il est aussi un père de famille heureux, veillant sur sa femme Laurie et leur fils Jacob.
Quand un crime atroce secoue la quiétude de sa petite ville, c'est la foudre qui s'abat sur lui : son fils deans est accusé du meurtre d'un camarade de classe.
Andrew ne peut croire à la culpabilité de Jacob et va tout mettre en oeuvre pour prouver son innocence, Mais à mesure que les indices à charge s'accumulent et que le procès approche, certaines révélations surgies du passé sèment le doute et menacent de détruire son mariage, sa réputation et sa foi en la justice.
Le dos au mur, Andrew devra faire face au pire dilemme de sa vie : choisir entre la loyauté et la vérité pour défendre cet adolescent qu'il connaît si mal.
brilliant and heartbreaking :
This story isn't about proving Jacob is innocent or guilty, At least I didn't think so, For me this story was about fathers unconditional love for his son, no matter the outcome,
Andy Barber is ayear old DA, Has a wife who is a teacher and ayear old son, Jacob, Perfect little family. They are well known and respected in their community,
One day, he gets a call that ayear old boy has been found murdered in the park, not far from school, withstab wounds in the chest.
He takes on the case, But pretty soon it's clear that it might be conflict of interest, The police find some incriminating stuff against Jacob, and he becomes a suspect, What comes next, is absolutely heartbreaking, Andy stands down and gives up the case,
The whole story is told from fathers point of view, It's starts at the end and can feel a bit confusing, It's starts with him sitting on a witness stand, talking to a prosecutor, You get the feeling that something big went down, but you don't know what, You also don't know if Jacob has been found guilty or innocent, or what the hell happened, And that's what makes this story a complete page turner,
You get to see how their family handles the crisis, It hits hard, all of them, the father, the mother and the son, You see family falling apart, Their marriage went from:
At seventeen, I knew: my entire childhood had been just a prelude to this girl, I had never felt anything like it, and still haven't, I felt changed by her, physically, Not sexually, though we had sex everywhere, like minks, in the library stacks, in an empty classroom, her car, her family's beach house, even a cemetery.
"I am truly, deeply sorry, Truly. "
"Now say you're wrong, "
"Wrong"
"Say you are wrong, Do you want it or not"
"Hm, So, just to be clear: all I have to do is say I'm wrong and a beautiful woman will make passionate love to me, "
"I didn't say passionate just regular, "
"Okay, so: say I'm wrong and a beautiful woman will make love to me, completely without passion but with pretty good technique, That's the situation"
"Pretty good technique"
"Astounding technique, "
"Yes, Counselor, that's the situation, "
"What"
"Nothing, "
"You are staring. "
"You are my wife, I'm allowed to stare. "
"Is that the rule"
"Yes, Stare, leer, ogle, anything I want, Trust me. I'm a lawyer. "
To:
"I did not share my feelings with Laurie, and I did not try to draw out hers either, because we were all coming apart.
I discouraged any sort of frank emotional talk, and soon enough I stopped noticing my wife altogether, "
It's very sad and frustrating to read, At the same time, it gets you thinking: would you act any different in their situation
The trial is absolutely brutal, Theirs and Jacob's friends are called to testify, Secrets start coming out, evidence against Jacob is piling up, . . It leaves them thinking "What How did I not know that" They start doubting each other, But the most difficult part of all comes when parents start doubting their own kid's innocence, They discover that he is not an angel that they thought he was, I would go as far as calling him a little monster, At the same time, all those things doesn't prove he is guilty, because it doesn't have any direct relevance to the case, The conversations they have, at the end of the day, behind closed doors of their bedroom, is absolutely heartbreaking,
"Do you think he did it"
"Are you crazy He's our son!"
Every time a "dark" thought doubt sneaks up on him, he tries to push it away with a memory from Jacob's childhood.
A dim memory of Jake as a three or fouryearold boy when we had a bedtime routine: I would ask, "Who loves Jacob" and he would answer.
"Daddy does. " It was the last thing we said to each other before he went to sleep each night,
I knelt beside the bed and circled my arms around Jacob and laid my head on his, I remembered again: when he was a little kid, . .
Certainly he would never allow me to hold him this way if he was awake, . .
The amazing thing about this story, and what made this book so hard to put it down was little cliffhangers or hints left here and there.
Laury was neither stupid nor belligerent, and in the end she paid the price but I'm getting ahead of the story,
Or when they went to the psychiatrist and started confessing all kinds of weird stuff, It left me with "WTF"
But the story had a lot of bright moments too, It wasn't all sad. Andy was a tough cookie, He was trying to be strong for his wife and his son, He even managed to crack a joke or two, to cheer them up, He was very cool on the witness stand, he was schooling the prosecutor like nobodies business :, He never once lost hope, not even when the sh!t hit the fan, over and over and over again,
The story had quite a few twists, Just when you thought the whole thing was over, something else happened, But the father never lost his cool, Not even at the end,
I haven't cried reading a book in a long time, but the very last sentence, at the end of the last chapter, completely broke my heart.
I'm not gonna quote it, because it will spoil the story for those who are planning on reading,
Superbly written, engaging, compelling and heartbreaking story,
As soon as I got the great news that Apple TV will adapt this book into the limited TV series and cast Americas ass a.
k. a Chris Evans as Andy Barber, It and Knives Out s brilliant actor Jaeden Martell as Jacob and I said: “Hell yeah!” we got the mind bending, twisty, surprising story we deserved.
So I made a fast rereading to remember some intense parts and details of the book, By the way Michelle Dockery as Laurie and Oscar awarded J, K. Simmons as Billy Barber are killing it! And imitation games director Morten Tyldum orchestrated this symphonic adaptation! But trust me: even though the series has marvelous cast and the best director, the conclusion of the book was so much better! So read the book at
first!!!
Lets give you some introductions about the plot:
Andy Barber is experienced assistant district attorney of Newton, Massachusetts.
His gotyears old Ben Rifkins murder case, a classmate of his son Jacob, At first his number one person of interest was Leonard Patz, a local pedophile but as the investigation resumes, Andy finds out Ben and his son Jacob has some real issues, growing animosity between them.
And after he does something not so ethical which may risk his carrier, hes pulled off the case because his sons fingerprints were found at Bens sweater! And Andy has a terrifying secret about his own past.
He didnt tell his wife what his father has done and where he is right now! There are so many secrets, so many revelations and twists.
If you havent intrigued yet, at least give a chance to the series and binge watch them,
Oh! Unfortunately Apple TV releases only three episodes at first and keeps releasing the rest of it weekly, Damn it! At least I know how is going to end! Thats why I read the books at first, But I always try the book at first not to be disappointed because as always the books are always better than the series,
Im a diehard fan of court drama, I love crime thrillers and Im an addict of WTF endings and this book gave me the whole package, So I highly recommend this creepy, disturbing, riveting, unputdownable, arm biter, soul shaker story!,