First and foremost, I need to warn you. This review will be full of unsolicited advice. After reading the best legal thriller of the year, I feel that I'm qualified to give counsel and will do so liberally!
The first piece of advice. Buy this book. Pre-order it today on Amazon.com. It will be released on January 31, 2012 and I am confident that it will be the best legal thriller of 2012 (and 2011 for me!) An extension of that advice- pick up at least 2 more. It is the holiday season and you are bound to forget someone's present. Maybe you are mad at someone and not planning on getting them anything. I totally relate. But you know you're gonna feel like an ass when they surprise you with a present and you can't reciprocate. Solution- tell them you pre-ordered the best legal thriller of 2012 (say it with me- the best legal thriller of 2012) and they will be receiving it at the end of the new year!
My second piece of advice is to a small subset of people. To John Grisham, Richard North Patterson, and Steve Martini - watch out! William Landay knows what he's doing. As a former Assistant District Attorney and winner of multiple literary awards, his books are powerfully and accurately written. (I feel I'm qualified to judge the accuracy because of all the knowledge I gleaned from this book!)
The thing that really put me over the edge and forced me to read this book right away was one thing. One thing that you will all be very familiar with once you read my reviews- accolades from the one and only Lee Child. (swoon)
Lee writes: “Defending Jacob is smart, sophisticated, and suspenseful—capturing both the complexity and stunning fragility of family life.”
And if that was not enough- 2 of my other favorite authors said this:
“A novel like this comes along maybe once a decade . . . a tour de force, a full-blooded legal thriller about a murder trial and the way it shatters a family. With its relentless suspense, its mesmerizing prose, and a shocking twist at the end, it’s every bit as good as Scott Turow’s great Presumed Innocent. But it’s also something more: an indelible domestic drama that calls to mind Ordinary People and We Need to Talk About Kevin. A spellbinding and unforgettable literary crime novel.”—Joseph Finder
“So well-written, every character so movingly and convincingly drawn, the plot so utterly enthralling . . . Defending Jacob is absolutely stellar, first-rate fiction—human, sensitive, and gripping in the extreme.”—Lisa Unger
If that isn't enough, I don't know what is. I loved this book. I loved that I really thought that I had figured it all out about 1/3 of the way through. Then found out I wrong. But then, I was positive that about 3/4 of the way through I knew how it would end. WRONG.
If you want to know exactly what the book is about- read about it on Amazon.com when you go to pre-order it. Don't forget, order 3 copies. And don't wait until the day its released- Amazon is great about shipping the book to you on release day- order it now so you won't forget.
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