Oh, Jodi. Here you are again. Although read over the course of 24-hours, this one seemed even more familiar than her more recent novels. There were also one too many unnecessary perspectives included (for only a few chapters, at that). Picoult has done courtroom battles before....and, correct me if I'm wrong, always involving kids. Wah wah.
Short version: Emma Hunt is an overbearing mother (oh, wait! we've seen this lady before) to Theo and Jacob. Jacob has Asperger's Syndrome, and is obsessed with forensics, including watching and documenting shows and then recreating crime scenes for his family to figure out. The Hunt household is governed by a short list of "House Rules", as Jacob needs the structure and something to constantly reference in order to function in society. (I'm very tempted to give you two of the rules, but would give away the big mystery....suffice it to say, using Jacob's notation system...SOLVED: ME! 75 pages.) There is a murder. Everyone knows a little piece of the puzzle, and no one is telling what they know. Courtroom scenes ensue.
The two things that stick with me from this book: Emma is a reworked version of every other mother character Picoult has written (with no outstanding traits of her own) and Jacob constantly reminded me of Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory (even though it has been said that his character doesn't have any form of autism. I couldn't help it).
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