Finally read a Jodi Picoult book

[katfco]

I read House Rules. It was a good book, but I have a question for anyone else who's read it. I'll put it in the next post to avoid spoilers.

[katfco]

What was up with that ending?? What happened? I hate when books end without any sense of closure.

[kdrake8]

Lots of her books have no definitive ending. Remind me the premise of House Rules?

[mumegs]

It's the one about the autistic kid right? I can't remember what happened at the end. Or much about the book at all...sorry.

[katfco]

It was about a kid with Asperger's who's obsessed with forensics and ends up on trial for the murder of his social skills tutor.

It was a fairly good book, but really heavy handed with her interpretation of Asperger's and she doesn't seem to know the difference between Asperger's and autism.

If this is how she ends most of her books, why is she so popular? It's like she just got bored with the story at the end and just stopped.

[katfco]

Jun 28, 2013 13:49:54 GMT -5 mumegs said:

It's the one about the autistic kid right? I can't remember what happened at the end. Or much about the book at all...sorry.

At the end, it turns out he staged the murder scene because he thought his brother had either killed her or caused her accidental death, so they're on their way to see the judge while the jury is in deliberations. Then...nothing.

[eav2c]

I've found most of her books to have crazy/sad/weird endings, ex; Handle with Care and My Sisters Keeper. It's just how her books are.

[The Foozzler]

Didn't it turn out she died accidentally? Like she fell or something?

All of her books have a weird twist at the end. Usually on the last page.

[katfco]

Jun 28, 2013 14:33:29 GMT -5 The Foozzler said:

Didn't it turn out she died accidentally? Like she fell or something?

All of her books have a weird twist at the end. Usually on the last page.

That's what they suggest, but there's no closure as to what happens to the other characters. Like, did the younger brother get in trouble for his actions? Were the charges dropped? This wasn't even a twist; it was just, done. I even looked through the blank pages at the end to see if I had missed something.

Of course, I was also annoyed at how she misrepresented Asperger's, but that's a personal annoyance, as my brother has it.