Rachel Catlett's nomination for my 12 (25) in 2024 Facebook friends reading challenge, I got this one from Thrift Books. Onto the growing pile it goes...

I'm going to be picking this up in the next week, because I'm going to send it on to the next participant in the Alphabet Book Game; a title that starts with the letter P.

”Would you defend your husband if he was accused of killing his mistress?” the back cover asks? Sarah Morgan is at the top of her game, a highly successful defense attorney in Washington DC. Adam, on the other hand, is a struggling author in search of his muse. Adam cheats, and his mistress is found stabbed to death in their lake home in Virginia.

It took me almost 2 weeks to finish this. While that was partly a function of other priorities in my life, I would have enjoyed it more (and finished it faster) if I’d liked either of the main characters. Between Adam’s abject stupidity and constant references to Sarah’s extensive wardrobe of Louboutin heels… I simply did not connect with either of them. That said, the last three chapters (eleven years after Adam’s murder trial) saved this for me. The author tied up loose ends where I was wanting closure and others I didn’t even see… and turned what was shaping up as a 2 star read into something far better, at least for me.

My favorite quotes:

"I pick up the cup of coffee and bring it to my lips. It burns, but a good type of burn, like the small fires we sometimes need in our lives to remind us that we are alive."

"I've always felt like Sarah was taking on the world, while I was just struggling to live in it."

“He had lost all hope after his conviction, and a human without hope is a wild animal.”

“That’s the thing about relationships, you never really know what’s going on in them, unless you’re a part of them.”

“We all have our own truth and everything outside that truth is just a story.”

Sending this on to the next reader in the Alphabet Game Book Ring. Enjoy!

received as part of the Alphabet Book Game