“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” And that’s when I started crying. Crying like a kindergarten kid in front of everyone. Crying because Joseph wasn’t just my friend. I had his back. And he had mine. That’s what greater love is.”
I picked this book up from the library, not realizing or remembering that I had read it before. When I realized I had, I decided to read it anyway because I needed something short until my next hold came in, so I just sat down and read it.
This book is about Joseph, a 14-year-old boy who almost killed a teacher, got incarcerated at Stone Mountain, and has a daughter named Jupiter that he has never seen and desperately wants to find. Jack’s family ends up fostering Joseph, and the two become close until, eventually, Joseph sets out to try and find Jupiter.
I’m not sure how reading it the second time compared to the first, but it was pretty good. Although it wasn’t my favorite, it told a good story and it wasn’t longer than it needed to be. The writing style wasn’t the best, but it wasn’t bad enough to take away from the plot of the book and, after a bit, I just got used to it.
The story itself was quite sad, as was to be expected, but it was also comforting in a way because of the unlikely bond between Jack and Joseph. Also, just wondering, why do all the characters names start with j? There aren’t that many j names out there, so I feel like it’s kind of weird.
Anyway, it was a pretty good book, and I might not read it again but I did enjoy it.