House Rules: the powerful must-read story of a mother's unthinkable choice by the number one bestselling author of A Spark of Light

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Well written, unputdownable, great suspense, you will feel the urge to complete the book without stopping.

On a positive note, I believe this is a fairly realistic portrayal of family life in the home of an autistic teenager, and any autistic person, especially someone who has been the subject of false criminal suspicions, will likely sympathize with Jacob’s predicament. A gret insight about life of the people who have any kind of disability, a whole view of family and the detail of the disable person's feeling and view from every aspects makes me speachless. I haven’t ever hit Theo, but I’ve thrown things at him and have wrecked some of his things, most notably a guitar that my mother then made me pay for in increments for the next three years of my life. Could this little boy tell you about the Therizinosaurid found in Utah, with fifteen-inch claws that look like something out of a teen slasher flick?

I think that’s what made me stop the first time – I mean, who the hell has a turret on their house, besides Rapunzel? It was the first time I got to see the spray wax used for taking a footprint cast on snow, a definite highlight. The story is narrated in turns by Jacob, Emma and Theo and also Oliver; the young inexperienced lawyer that takes on Jacob's defence and also briefly by Rich - the arresting Police Officer. If things get really bad, pressure helps – like lying under a weighted blanket or a pile of laundry. There’s one single faint footprint at the threshold of the living room, pointing toward the dead body of my son, Jacob.

I stick a magnetic light on top of my car and drive twenty miles over the speed limit before realizing that the dead guy won’t be getting any deader if I’m five minutes late, and that there’s black ice all over the roads. Of course, that makes me a freak to the skating crowd, just like the way I dress and the fact that I like to skate make me a freak to the honors crowd. Very powerful, at times very disturbing and shows just how much we take for granted and assume, how we judge people from their behaviours, how strange our language is and how much of a battle life can be for people who have Asperger's and those who love and care for them. In one instance, Emma, the mother of eighteen year old with autism Jacob, states “Jacob wouldn’t hurt a fly, literally or figuratively” (10-11), only for this statement to be immediately contradicted by Jacob’s brother Theo, who observes that the culmination of one of Jacob’s meltdowns was “twenty-four stitches on my face” (12). MAD HONEY, her new novel co-authored with Jennifer Finney Boylan, is available in hardcover, ebook, and audio on October 4, 2022.Characterisation and relationships were as ever very well done but I got impatient with such a drawn-out redundant “trial sequence” when it was clear from the start it was based on wrong premises.

On the other hand, I could tell you anything you ever wanted to know about lightning, polymerase chain reactions, famous movie quotes, and lower Cretaceous sauropods. I can smell my mother … my knees give with relief, with the knowledge that I have not faded away after all’ (p.I complain a lot about present tense writing, but Picoult is one of the few who can do it so well that I barely even notice it. According to the CDC, if every American child followed the recommended vaccine protocol, 33,000 lives would be saved, 14 million infections prevented, and ten billion dollars would be cut from healthcare costs annually. Although the number of traits she depicts may be excessive, the way in which they are described alongside the insights into why Jacob holds these traits represents a laudable and accurate insight into autism. Emma Hunt has pretty much sacrificed a large portion of her day-2-day life, if not all of it, to ensure her 18 year-old Asperger's son Jacob can live some sort of a normal life.