Jude is not a typical teenage boy. Jude has “family problems.” His mom is absent and his dad is a drug dealer. Selling cocaine to get them by, Frank, Jude’s dad has been skimping on his shipments. When Jude skips his usual after school basketball game due to ill fitting shoes, he just goes home. At Home he finds his dad busy at work cheating people on their drugs. After beating his son around, Frank is shocked with a surprise. Two men come into their ramshackle apartment and murder Jude’s dad right in front of him. Agreeing to keep the men’s identity a secret, Jude is spared. Lying to the detectives isn’t to hard for him to manage until they confront him about the discrepancies in his story from that of a neighbors. Jude is whisked away down to the police station and his world becomes filled with Attorneys, Detectives and police. When the DA turns out to be Judes lost mother, he finds out about his parents past but mostly about his fathers.
Even though I’m only on chapter three, Jude’s new world has become mine. From summaries on the back cover, I think I’m going to like “Jude.” He’s just a kid barly older then me, yet he is dealing with inner demons and monsters I couldn’t imagine. If Jude’s life was messed up before the murder of his father, It’s completely opposite of a normal one.
I think Jude is going to be a promising book full of surprises and twists. With flashbacks to his life before his fathers death, I learn more and more about what It’s like to have a life I couldn’t even imagine. I like that Jude’s life is completely opposite of mine, because I get to see what other people could potentially go through. I have a feeling that I will like this book and wont be able to put it down once I get even more into it.
