Sophie Deal is a criminal attorney at an old New England
firm in Massachusetts. At twenty-nine,
she is content in her surroundings and her cliental. One day, the daughter of
one of their richest and most powerful clients walks in and needs a divorce
attorney. She had just been handed papers at one of the most chic restaurants
in town and is out for blood.
All the divorce attorneys are out-of-town, but the head to
of the firm pulls Sophie to do the in-take interview. The client, Mia Meiklejohn Durkheim, like
Sophie’s forthrightness and pulls strings to get her assigned to the case, which is sometimes funny.
Other than negotiating divorce law, there’s not much plot
here. I did like the epistolary style Reiger used: memos and e-mails. It made
what could have been a dry story much better and faster to read. I didn’t like the pages that concentrated on
the legal briefs. I think those could have been deleted. However, there are
those readers who have wanted to see the info once it’s mentioned. The format also led to a quick read, which
kept me reading, and when the legalese was excluded, it was a fun story.
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