A review by leahreads__
The Good Son, by Jacquelyn Mitchard
2.0
‘Stefan was just seventeen when he went to prison for the murder of his girlfriend, Belinda, a crime he has no memory of committing. Three years later he’s release to a world that refuses to let him move on.’
“I was picking my son up at the prison gates when I spotted the mother of the girl he had murdered.”
With a first line like that how can you not be hooked? But that’s probably where I should have stopped. This book felt long and drawn out to me. It had such promise and I was so excited to read it. However I found the writing style confusing and hard to keep up. It would be talking in the present tense, jump into a story or memory from the past, then jump back to the present, yet you have no idea when you actually jumped back. The ‘cold caller’ thing also got old real quick. Sorry to say this is not one I enjoyed at all.
“I was picking my son up at the prison gates when I spotted the mother of the girl he had murdered.”
With a first line like that how can you not be hooked? But that’s probably where I should have stopped. This book felt long and drawn out to me. It had such promise and I was so excited to read it. However I found the writing style confusing and hard to keep up. It would be talking in the present tense, jump into a story or memory from the past, then jump back to the present, yet you have no idea when you actually jumped back. The ‘cold caller’ thing also got old real quick. Sorry to say this is not one I enjoyed at all.