Defending Jacob
Ratings66
Average rating3.8
The plot does not hang together fora legal thriller. Too much time is spent rehashing non-important details. Nothing interesting here.
Je me souviens encore de cet excellent roman où la psychologie des personnages m'avait marqué. J'aurais plaisir, je pense, à le relire un jour, même en connaissance le twist final.
Not very well written and I kept waiting for it to get more suspenseful. The ending did surprise me, so it got some points for that.
I'm not as enthused about this book as most reviewers. The story arc has promise but the telling slogged with lots of repetition in the middle. I was able to skim several pages at a time without loosing any of the plot, especially sections of courtroom narrative.
Somehow i had missed this one when it first came out. It was a riveting read that brought forth a parents dilemma and worst nightmares. The tensions between the parents Landay portrayed was true to life. Toward the end a couple of totally unexpected twists threw things in the air. I highly recommend the book.
Defending Jacob was definitely a page turner at many parts as I was eager to find out what really happened. Was Jacob innocent? Was it Leonard Patz who committed the crime? Did something else entirely happen to Ben Rifkin that no one even considered? I need to know!
I originally bought this book because I read that it had a big plot twist that I wouldn't see coming, and I love a good mind-blowing plot twist. I have to say, I was (just a little bit) disappointed. It's not necessarily that I gues
really well-written legal and family drama; the tone is similar to Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow so if you liked that one, you will like this.