Customer Reviews

Jake Riley: Irreparably Damaged

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

To borrow the theme from the book's tag line:

Jake Riley keeps you guessing.
Jake Riley keeps you reading.

I agree with the other reviewers - this book is exciting, fast paced and the characters are involving. But I want to mention the complexity of the plot.

Rebecca Davis has woven a mystery that focuses on 'whoishe' instead of 'whodunit' and the resulting story stays one step ahead of the reader. When you aren't trying to figure out who Jake really is (or following the other character's attempts to figure him out), you're immersed in the dynamic daily life of Lainey - a young teen's life that has something everyone can relate to.

Overall it's a great read for all ages.

I couldn't put the book down until I read the last word. The characters are well developed and realistic. The plot is excellent and I want to congratulate Rebecca Fjelland Davis on a wonderful and well written book.

In this book we have two main characters with total different attitudes, thoughts, actions, and many more. This book focuses on one person named Jake who has a big problem. Jake here has a problem that no one ever knew. Lainy, a fourteen year old girl that lives on a farm that Jake and his dad lives on is now a victim of Jake's. Lainy finds herself in a decision only she can make nobody else can. When Lainy finds out about Jake she's running for her life, but finds out that she can't run because she cares about Jake. Putting herself in danger, Lainy is getting more and more threats sexual and physical, she finds it deep in her heart to stick up for herself against Jake to do something about it.
My likes and dislikes about this book are that this book is very interesting, There is action all the time. It's never boring. When you stop on a page, you always are thinking about what's going to happen next with Jake and Lainy are going to do next. I really don't have any dislikes about this book but one thing is that it makes you think that this same thing in this book happens everyday in the world. Me, it makes me mad because people need to stick up for themselves no matter what. If you are a person who gets made fun of, stick up for yourself o something about it.
I would really recommend this book to someone who loves mystery and conflict. There is defiantly a lot of mystery between Jake and Lainy. I hope for all people who read this, go to the library and check this book out. I guarantee you that you will love it.

I don't think that this book is a very depiction of what it is like to be a teen-ager. It seems like it was writtne by someone who is kind of old and out of it.

My mom bought this book recently because of who wrote it. (I live in Mankato, too) It was very good- a very fast paced book- I read it over a day and a half.

Well, 'Lainey-Belainey' has quite an experience in life, but the reader was right with her along the way. Very good. A nice changed from the 'heavy' ones read in school.

This book is about a girl who lives next to a boy that has some problems. It's set in a town of farmers and is very thought provoking

In this book we have two main characters with total different attitudes, thoughts, actions, and many more. This book focuses on one person named Jake who has a big problem. Jake here has a problem that no one ever knew. Lainy, a fourteen year old girl that lives on a farm that Jake and his dad lives on is now a victim of Jake's. Lainy finds herself in a decision only she can make nobody else can. When Lainy finds out about Jake she's running for her life, but finds out that she can't run because she cares about Jake. Putting herself in danger, Lainy is getting more and more threats sexual and physical, she finds it deep in her heart to stick up for herself against Jake to do something about it.
My likes and dislikes about this book are that this book is very interesting, There is action all the time. It's never boring. When you stop on a page, you always are thinking about what's going to happen next with Jake and Lainy are going to do next. I really don't have any dislikes about this book but one thing is that it makes you think that this same thing in this book happens everyday in the world. Me, it makes me mad because people need to stick up for themselves no matter what. If you are a person who gets made fun of, stick up for yourself o something about it.
I would really recommend this book to someone who loves mystery and conflict. There is defiantly a lot of mystery between Jake and Lainy. I hope for all people who read this, go to the library and check this book out. I guarantee you that you will love it.

i started this book at 5 in the afternoon and literally could not put it down untill i finished it. it is amazing.the plot was full, the characters rich and not only could both males and females relate to lainey's character but we also got to see who jake was without having to follow him around like most characters in a book. i also liked the way that lainey kept refering back to the irreparably damaged statment made by the councelor about jake. it really brought the theme of the book out in full detail.

This book is about a boy that is normal but yet not. He has parents and he has friends. He is normal for the most part, but at times he will go psycho and be very mean. His parents are scared at times because of the way he acts. How it ends is up to you to read this book.
Things I like about this book are that it doesn't use words that you have to grab a dictionary and look it up. This book does have a lot of action in it. It doesn't get confusing often, but will every once and a while.
Things I didn't like were the lack of details used in this book. The book needed more conversation and it would be much more interesting. When it gets confusing it gets really confusing.

This is the best book about young teens i've read in a decade.