Jude
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4.6 • 34 Ratings
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Publisher Description
"Listen, you're young. We don't send kids to jail. If you had something to do with this, it's better to tell us. Then we can help you. Maybe it was a friend of yours come to take care of things for you. You've got a nasty bruise there, and your neighbors told us that you tend to get a lot of bruises. We take those things into account, you know. We understand about things like that."
"You don't understand anything," Jude said.
After Jude watches his drug-dealer father get gunned down at the kitchen table, he's taken from their dangerous neighborhood to a comfortable home, an elite private school, and a mother he doesn't remember. Only fifteen, Jude is under suspicion for his father's murder, but to save his own life, he can't tell the police what he knows.
To make things worse, Jude's mother is the district attorney. She can protect him from the police -- but when Jude's classmate overdoses on heroin, Jude is implicated, and his mother decides to prosecute. Jude is determined to clear his name, though he doesn't know that mysteries from his past have yet to be revealed -- secrets that will forever alter the course of his life.
Jude's gripping story is at once moving and horrifying as it traces a young man's quest for acceptance and his incredible capacity for hope and resilience. Kate Morgenroth, whose adult novels have been called "nearly impossible to put down" by Time Out New York and "compulsively readable" by Entertainment Weekly, here shows more of her considerable talent.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Readers will need to suspend their disbelief as they begin Morgenroth's (Kill Me First) dark tale of one teen's loss and redemption. In the crackerjack opening, 15-year-old Jude insists to detectives that he was watching TV while his drug-dealer father was shot dead in another room. But the tantalizing mystery of the teen's possible involvement is quickly solved and the rest of the novel gives way to an overly dramatic back story when a detective learns Jude's long-absent mother is the district attorney in the next town. The detectives alert the woman, who comes to the jail and explains to Jude that his father had kidnapped Jude as an infant. She takes her son home with her, but Jude's "dream... come true" does not last long. Harry, her police commissioner boyfriend and Jude's father's former partner, financed the kidnapping (for reasons that go unexplained) and then he sets Jude up to go to prison so Jude's mother (oblivious to the plan) can look tough on drugs and become mayor. In jail, Jude fights off adult males and wins their respect. Readers who can stomach the cockamamie plot will get to the big finish where the wet-behind-the-ears newspaper reporter Jude's classmate at school shows up at the jail and writes an expos that forces Jude's mother to face the truth. Ages 12-up.
Customer Reviews
Too good to be true.
This book is by far the BEST book i have ever read, and i know that doesn't sound like much because every book existing has a review like this but oh, my, goodness. I read this book last year and i couldn't stop thinking about, so, of course, the moment i got iBooks, i bought it. And i read it again. Twice. I cant stress how amazing this book is enough. It is a crime book so most people think that girl's will hate this book, but here i am, a girl, who read this book, and fell in love. Boys will without a doubt LOVE this book as well. Whoever is reading this review, trust me, you will NOT regret reading the book, it is amaaaazing. The story is so good, and you connect with the main character so well. When i was reading this, i swear, i felt his emotions, when Jude felt betrayed, it seemed like I was the one being betrayed, my heart hurt for him. The story is tremendous, i don't know how kate morgenroth came up with such a captivating plot. People are going crazy right now over EDWARD and JACOB BLACK from the twilight saga when I am going crazy over Jude. And so will everyone else reading the book. Im going to stop writing now because I'll never stop talking about Jude if i don't hahaah. Kate, guess who your number one fan is?
You guys. Just read it. Please. How i survived 15 years without Jude in my life is an unquestionable miracle. Read it. AHHHHH I can't breathe hahahha
Love
I loved this book. ive read it so many times. it goes in my top ten XD
Wow
This book is purely amazing. I'm 13 and not much of a reader. But this is the best book ever. Great from start to end and you really feel judes pain when he's in jail and Harry comes. No complaints great book for a great price.
P.S. Listen to 25 to life by eminem when you finish