Worth reading: Yes
Summary: What a parent will do to protect their child.

To be honest, I wasn't expecting much from this book. I admit that I gave the back cover only a cursory glance as I chose this one for a freebie in a "buy two get one free" deal at my local Angus and Robertson. I wasn't expecting much because I haven't read any of the other titles Jodi has written, nothing to do with the quality of the writing or the flow of the story, just that I'm not familiar with the author.

Well, all that has changed.

The story flow and characters are excellently developed and I didn't really want the tale to end. I wanted to know more about what happens after, what happens now, a continuance if you like.
I'm going to hunt down a couple more titles from Jodi. If anyone can recommend some please let me know.

Perfect Match is the story of Nina Frost. She is a successful lawyer prosecuting the animals that molest children. Her life seems, if not perfect, then close to it. Husband. Son. Then, one day a horrible realisation hits Nina. Her five-year-old son Nathaniel has been sexually abused. Now she is not fighting for a child of another parent. She is fighting for her own son.

Nina's fight to protect her son at all costs shows us how blind to all else we can become, how easily we can jump to all the wrong conclusions, do all the wrong things, for all the right reasons. Just what a parent is capable of, should someone or something hurt their child.

I'm not a parent yet, but even I could empathise with Nina's anguish and the steps she took in trying to somehow right an abhorrent wrong.

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