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Max Parkmanautistic and whip-smart, emotionally fragile and aggressiveis perfect in his mother's eyes. Until he's accused of murder. Attorney Danielle Parkman knows her teenage son Max's behavior has been getting worseusing drugs and lashing out. But she can't accept the diagnosis she receives at a top-notch adolescent psychiatric facility that her son is deeply disturbed. Dangerous. Until she finds Max, unconscious and bloodied, beside a patient who has been brutally stabbed to death. Trapped in a world of doubt and fear, barred from contacting Max, Danielle clings to the belief that her son is innocent. But has she, too, lost touch with reality? Is her son really a killer? With the justice system bearing down on them, Danielle steels herself to discover the truth, no matter what it is. She'll do whatever it takes to find the killer and to save her son from being destroyed by a system that's all too eager to convict him.
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NOW...I am not saying that boosting your vocabulary is a bad thing by any means but PLEASE... It seemed like the author was over using her great vocabulary simply for ego's sake. Common words could and should have been used in several places.
I mean come on...tenebrous, nebulous, kilim, expiation and malefic just in the first 20 pages and that's leaving out all the psychiatric terms.Then there was masticating instead of chewing.People do not talk like that.
That aside; having several children of my own I can definitely go to that place of being willing to do anything to save your child. Yet there were times(lots of them) that I could have shook Max's mother because it "seemed" as though she didn't have the common sense God gave a door knob.
Am I ever glad I got past the at times ridiculous use of words and Danielle's what appeared to be a lack of common sense, to finish the book because it turns out to rank a solid 4.
I realize that deducting a whole point for an extreme use of 50 cent words may seem excessive but most of us read books like this to relax or escape and don't want to have to grab our Websters to find the meaning of unnecessary and extreme words.
I am looking forward to her next book.
Max Parkmanautistic and whip-smart, emotionally fragile and aggressiveis perfect in his mother's eyes. Until he's accused of murder. Attorney Danielle Parkman knows her teenage son Max's behavior has been getting worseusing drugs and lashing out. But she can't accept the diagnosis she receives at a top-notch adolescent psychiatric facility that her son is deeply disturbed. Dangerous. Until she finds Max, unconscious and bloodied, beside a patient who has been brutally stabbed to death. Trapped in a world of doubt and fear, barred from contacting Max, Danielle clings to the belief that her son is innocent. But has she, too, lost touch with reality? Is her son really a killer? With the justice system bearing down on them, Danielle steels herself to discover the truth, no matter what it is. She'll do whatever it takes to find the killer and to save her son from being destroyed by a system that's all too eager to convict him.
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NOW...I am not saying that boosting your vocabulary is a bad thing by any means but PLEASE... It seemed like the author was over using her great vocabulary simply for ego's sake. Common words could and should have been used in several places.
I mean come on...tenebrous, nebulous, kilim, expiation and malefic just in the first 20 pages and that's leaving out all the psychiatric terms.Then there was masticating instead of chewing.People do not talk like that.
That aside; having several children of my own I can definitely go to that place of being willing to do anything to save your child. Yet there were times(lots of them) that I could have shook Max's mother because it "seemed" as though she didn't have the common sense God gave a door knob.
Am I ever glad I got past the at times ridiculous use of words and Danielle's what appeared to be a lack of common sense, to finish the book because it turns out to rank a solid 4.
I realize that deducting a whole point for an extreme use of 50 cent words may seem excessive but most of us read books like this to relax or escape and don't want to have to grab our Websters to find the meaning of unnecessary and extreme words.
I am looking forward to her next book.
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