Rating:  Summary: Couldn't stop reading Review: This is the third Scottoline story I've read and by far the best. The explosive start sends her characters reeling into action and they barely sit down until the last page. I thoroughly enjoyed it! Thanks, Lisa!
Rating:  Summary: Spell Binding - Great Read Review: This suspenseful thriller kept me on the edge. It is a fast moving story with characters you will instantly want to win. This was my first mystery by Sottoline and now finishing my seventh in three weeks.
Rating:  Summary: Disappointing and bizarre Review: This was my first experience with this author and words escape me out disappointed I was with the book. There were so many bizarre coincidences that throughout the book I kept thinking. "I don't believe I'm still reading this thing." In any work of fiction, you can reasonably suspend the readers belief one or two times. But this work keeps at it. Not to get too specific, but the heroine does things that a lawyer would never consider. She shows no remorse when she causes innocents to be murdered. The character development is nil. The connection between major leaps of plot are sketchy at best. Come on, the guy buys a boat to hide a map to a box he buried, that...that...that...that...? Now, I'm not saying the plot has to be completely believable. But the rationale behind these plotlines need to be explained and justified a bit more. My advice is to now waste your time and money. I certainly won't anymore.
Rating:  Summary: Scottoline: Finally, a Lawyer Who Can Write Review: Tired of Grisham's contrived plots & weak endings? Yes? Ever read a book at night, then the following day while you're working, wonder what the characters are doing? No? Then this is the book for you. Ms. Scottoline creates characters that don't do what you expect, but what they do is BELIEVABLE. In this book, we have a woman who wants to do the right thing and get her client off, only to find out (from the client!) that he did commit the murder... And away we go! If I'm ever charged with murder, I'd like to have Marta defending me. Unless I did it, of course...
Rating:  Summary: Her worst so far. Review: Totally ridiculous. If her client, before the jury is even in, confesses to the killing, and if she was so inclined, it seems to me she could just TELL SOMEONE. Like the judge, the jury, the newspapers, SOMEONE! EVERYONE! The story was a disappointment after reading and enjoying Scottoline's Running from the Law and Everywhere That Mary Went. I will try her others tho sense I liked the other two so well.
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