Keeping Counsel

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Summary: Page-turning legal thriller with a true moral center.
Review: As an attorney, I've read a lot of legal thrillers, and R.A.Forster's KEEPING COUNSEL ranks with the best. This story moves. From the outset, we are pulled into the moral dilemma faced by Tara Linley, the lawyer who meets her best friend's new lover only to find herself ensnared by this charming man into defending him against criminal prosecution for a horrifying murder. Is he certifiably insane? Or merely a sexy but psychopathic killer who delights in manipulating his power over Tara and her vulnerable friend? This book is full of thrills, both emotional and intellectual. When Tara is pitted against influential friends who pressure her to give her client up, she questions the very foundations on which her life was built. Surely her best friend's safety is more important than some technical vow she took when she was sworn in as a lawyer. But how can she live with herself if she doesn't honor the system she has sworn to uphold? I finished it late last night, so I'm fresh from the excitement of this book. KEEPING COUNSEL dishes out danger, desire, and romance as it zips through this compelling story taken from an actual case. I couldn't put it down. R.A.Forster is going places--and I'm along for the ride.

Rating:
Summary: Page-turning legal thriller with a true moral center.
Review: As an attorney, I've read a lot of legal thrillers, and R.A.Forster's KEEPING COUNSEL ranks with the best. This story moves. From the outset, we are pulled into the moral dilemma faced by Tara Linley, the lawyer who meets her best friend's new lover only to find herself ensnared by this charming man into defending him against criminal prosecution for a horrifying murder. Is he certifiably insane? Or merely a sexy but psychopathic killer who delights in manipulating his power over Tara and her vulnerable friend? This book is full of thrills, both emotional and intellectual. When Tara is pitted against influential friends who pressure her to give her client up, she questions the very foundations on which her life was built. Surely her best friend's safety is more important than some technical vow she took when she was sworn in as a lawyer. But how can she live with herself if she doesn't honor the system she has sworn to uphold? I finished it late last night, so I'm fresh from the excitement of this book. KEEPING COUNSEL dishes out danger, desire, and romance as it zips through this compelling story taken from an actual case. I couldn't put it down. R.A.Forster is going places--and I'm along for the ride.

Rating:
Summary: Poor
Review: This is a really, really lame tome. I'd earlier submitted two reviews that have clearly been censored. Consequently, I am providing this mild rebuff. Rest assured, though, dear reader that this is NOT a book on which you want to waste your moolah. Note too that if this review is posted it is only the second to appear in connection with this dreadful work. Its not so much that the plot is ridiculous (well, yes it is)or that the characters are less than believable (they're absurd), but rather that the overall package is simply so far out there that one wonders why or how anyone could dream up this stuff. It truly does read as if the ghosts of Franklin W. Dixon and Carolyn Keene got together for a wild party, consumed copious amounts of mind altering pharmaceutical grade drugs, and said "Hey, we're not doing anything, let's write a really cool and disturbing book". Unfortunately, just like the amalgam that was those authors, this reads as if a crew of hungover substitute Jr High School teachers had to complete an assignment under a deadline. Truly, THIS review, as bad as it is, is infinitely superior to the flight of fancy that is "Keeping Counsel".

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Summary: DRECK
Review: This is a really, really lame tome. I'd earlier submitted two reviews that have clearly been censored. Consequently, I am providing this mild rebuff. Rest assured, though, dear reader that this is NOT a book on which you want to waste your moolah. Note too that if this review is posted it is only the second to appear in connection with this dreadful work. Its not so much that the plot is ridiculous (well, yes it is)or that the characters are less than believable (they're absurd), but rather that the overall package is simply so far out there that one wonders why or how anyone could dream up this stuff. It truly does read as if the ghosts of Franklin W. Dixon and Carolyn Keene got together for a wild party, consumed copious amounts of mind altering pharmaceutical grade drugs, and said "Hey, we're not doing anything, let's write a really cool and disturbing book". Unfortunately, just like the amalgam that was those authors, this reads as if a crew of hungover substitute Jr High School teachers had to complete an assignment under a deadline. Truly, THIS review, as bad as it is, is infinitely superior to the flight of fancy that is "Keeping Counsel".

Rating:
Summary: Poor
Review: What a waste of time. Poor plot. This just drags on and on. Don't waste your time or money on this one.