Review: Easy, Quick Reading
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 24, 2013
I received this book free from Library Thing to read and review. Kate is a young lawyer who has to make partner or she will have to junk or adjust her neat, 15-year plan. To get there, her friend convinces her to go on a cruise that the boss will also be on (along with her lawyer friend Max). Things don't work quite the way she envisions, but Kate ends up satisfied and happy. This is a fairly well written chick lit book. However, some of the basic premises in the book are a bit far-fetched.  A lawyer must work several years before making partner. Supreme Court justices probably have more and additional experiences than Kate could possibly have if she keeps on track with her plan. However, Kate, though sometimes rather immature, is a believable character. Still, there seem to be parts in the story alluded to by Kate that never did occur (she talks to Max about telling him about her past, which I do not remember happening) in the book. A lot of what happens on the cruise is very true to life and humorous. Besides Kate, her friends April and Max come across as rather likeable. However, her boss Sam is a real jerk, chasing after April, his admin, trying to get her into bed, planning a wedding after one good night with her, when, we find out, he is in a relationship with someone else. He also says and does things that no law firm partner would probably do. He does not seem to have the maturity or wherewithal of a law firm partner. I enjoyed this book a lot.  It is a very easy and rather quick read. I hope this is the start of a series, because I would like to read more about Kate and Max and April.