Bengisu itibaren 3465 KR Driebruggen, Holland itibaren 3465 KR Driebruggen, Holland

The most awesome depiction of war-related PTSD I've ever read. Also, I love me a mystery. Just not the normal mystery type books.

Everything about this book was really good; the characters were nuanced and believable, the plot was just the right amount of complicated (enough to be interesting all the way through, not so much that reading it was a slog, or to seem ridiculous), the writing was good (maybe a little overly detailed for my taste, but that's purely personal). I didn't love the book, though. It's probably mostly that so much of the book was courtroom drama, and that's not where my mystery-reading heart lies. A Grisham lover, I am not. Also, because it was a first-person narrative, and because the big question was "did the protagonist kill her", he had to straddle a line between being a guy you could root for, but also one you suspect to be a rapist/murderer. Turow did an excellent job of writing that guy and straddling that line, but it meant I wasn't identifying with him, wasn't loving him. I wasn't emotionally involved in his fate, but the story and storytelling were good enough that I was still an extremely motivated reader.