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Summary: F word abounds
Review: Apparently the author hoped you wouldn't notice the plot problems if she through the F word in every other sentence. Reading this book is like spending the afternoon with outspoken sailors.
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Summary: Fast-paced and great twists in plot.
Review: I can't believe I just discovered this author! Her characters are believable with real-life "flaws." I definately recommend this book - especially in the winter!
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Summary: A huge disappointment
Review: I have read other books by this author, and enjoyed them tremendously. This book, however, was a huge disappointment. The plot was preposterous. The characters were flat. I didn't believe anything that was happening. Frankly, I wanted to throw the book at the wall. I will not read any future books by Scottoline.
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Summary: Five stars for sheer fun...
Review: I loved this writer - her writing is witty, amusing - I was sorry it ended. Lisa Scottoline has a true, fresh voice in the detective genre. This was the first book of hers I read. I wanted to read all the others and I am now in the middle of "Moment of Truth." I particularly like her descriptions of the men in her protagonists' families. She's really very dear, despite her mouthy personality, which I happened to enjoy, contrary to some of the (unbelievably prudish) readers below. Thanks, Lisa!
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Summary: An Excellent Read
Review: I recently read Everywhere Mary Went and Legal Tender. They were excellent books. They were action-packed from the beginning to the end. Lisa Scottoline was consistent in her excellent writing ability when she wrote Rough Justice. However, I would have perferred a much slower ending. Such as the details of the interview with Marta during police questioning. I love connecting stories. Bringing Bennie, Mary, and Judy into this story was a great idea. I can't wait for Lisa's next book.
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Summary: DO ALL LADY LAWYERS HAVE TO SPEAK LIKE DRUNKEN SAILORS?
Review: I wanted to give Ms Scottoline a second chance after reading "Everywhere that Mary Went". I figured after reading the first book, surely a later publication would not be as full as the "f" word as her first. Wrong! It was worse. I do not know of any professional women who use this word. I do not like to hear it. I do not like this word to be in my reading materials. Surely, an educated woman should be able to find some other word that could express emotions much more clearly and succinctly that the "f" word. I am returning "Rough Justice" and have cancelled the other two books by Ms Scottoline that I had on back order.
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Summary: Rough Justice
Review: I would have enjoyed the book more if the author would keep her
liberal politics out of the book & her other books as well.
I wonder how ms. Scottoline would feel if she were reading a good
novel by another author, and there was a comment put in the book
such as 'there is nothing worse on this planet then a liberal
democrat'.
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Summary: Not bad, but could've been better
Review: I've never much cared for legal thrillers. John Grisham, for example, is a yawn. But since I've given up my usual fiction genre (romance) for Lent, I decided to give Lisa Scottoline a try.ROUGH JUSTICE is okay. Although the idea that Marta Richter should be surprised that her client might actually be guilty is a bit far-fetched (can you really imagine that Johnnie Cochran would be surprised if Simpson confessed?), it was an interesting premise given that her client could have plausibly been innocent. The idea that jury deliberations would be over "by noon tomorrow" was also far-fetched given that Scottoline plotted this as a major criminal trial. I was also a bit annoyed that there were no really "good" characters, with the possible exception of Christopher -- who just happened to be missing a few bricks anyway. I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with characters having hidden agendas; I'm just saying that you'd expect to see a few characters who were just living their lives and happened to get caught up in something extraordinary. That happens, and should have been portrayed. I also wondered what happened to the mayor's chief of staff. She dies a sudden death and no one notices, finds out, or relates it to what's happening? The saving grace of ROUGH JUSTICE is that it is genuinely entertaining. I could have done without the crude language, but the dialogue was otherwise snappy and funny. It kept the story moving and made up for a multitude of other problems. So I'll keep trying Lisa Scottoline. She's better than Grisham, anyway.
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Summary: Fast, fun and gripping!
Review: I've read hundreds of "lawyer" novels and must say that this one kept me up late, turning pages as fast as I could. I loved the cast of women lawyers, loved tough, mean, gutsy Marta, and the two appealing associates, and all the legal banter, and for once all the political infighting was interesting instead of a huge yawn. I also enjoyed the author's short, strong, colorful writing style. That's one reason the book seemed such a fast, exciting read. As for the character growth, I saw plenty of that. Marta became humbled and decided there were things in life worth more than work. And Benny learned not to be so "ice cold" and to put her associates first. I intend to buy and read every Lisa Scottoline book I can find.
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Summary: Read Scott Turow or Barry Reed instead; skip this
Review: In the film "From the Hip," Judd Nelson plays a young, hot-shot attorney who successfully manages to trick the man he is defending into hanging himself on the witness stand. The end of the film seems to applaud this sense of "justice." Lisa Scottoline's "Rough Justice" subscribes to the same sense of base morality. The story really begins after the jury is handed the case of a man tried for murder in what may or may not have been a botched car-jacking. The defendant maintained that he acted in self-defense when a homeless man tried to steal the defendant's car. But his story is a fabrication, as he confesses to Marta, his attorney and a member of an all-female law firm. Marta then undertakes to find the evidence to convict her client (whom she took an oath to defend) before the jury returns a verdict. Marta proceeds to commit crime after crime while endangering the lives of her coworkers and involving others in her illegal machinations. "Rough Justice" fails horribly in that it attempts to combine a Grisham-style thriller with a story of a woman's quest for revenge. The problem is that the heroine and her coworkers are so thoroughly repulsive and unethical that they defy any sympathy. Like it or not, the defense attorney's job is to defend the client, and sometimes that does mean securing an acquittal for a guilty client. In an adversarial system of justice, that happens from time to time. It is one thing to turn on the client, but the character of Marta does far more than that by acting so obstinately and foolishly that she threatens ruin for others, including a juror. This novel does a disservice not only to the reader but to the legal system, which already has enough problems in the public eye without those this book adds.
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