Review: Good Sex - Bad Law
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 25, 2014
Perhaps this installment should have been called "Limitations" although, I must admit, I do have "Objections" to the law in it.I did enjoy the book and the author's writing - engaging, clear, concise, able to put a lot into just a few pages - well done. The characters were entertaining and real, and the idea behind the story is creative and a page turner, certainly you don't want to miss what the other books have in store. And yes there was sex, graphic and enticing, hot and steamy, but not over the top. And that creates the first "limitations" in the book, the relationship between Matt, the boss, and Mac, the new employee and the sexual desire they have for one another. Can they limit their relationship to work only? Once finished with this installment Bennett's writing makes you want to find out if that is possible.However, I was quite surprised at the incorrect legal info that was put in the book. I guess most people wouldn't know, and perhaps it added to the drama, but for me, it brought the book down a star. Matt completely ignores that cases have a statute of "limitations" and tells an equally ignorant lawyer that he will bring suits some six to nine years after they occur. No way can a wrongful death be brought that long after it occurs. Then Mac has hired an Economist, and an automobile expert on a case, in a firm, that has "limitations" on its funds, not even able to pay her bi-monthly salary. Only after she gets to the new firm does anyone realize that experts cost money.Certainly, this is not a legal drama, but it kind of knocks you out of even a really good book like this one when impossible things are written to show a character's personality (Matt's the tough litigator; Mac the caring, dedicated, but green novice attorney). Makes you look at the character differently. (Are the characters really that stupid or does the writer just think her reader is?)Other than that I enjoyed Bennett's very short novella and would read, and recommend to others, her books.