The Lincoln Lawyer - Michael Connelly

 61%

09.09.23

What makes this interesting - other than the details of how the urban American legal system works - is the character development arc. It could have been a standard procedural but the narrator goes from shrugging off the ethical issues of defending guilty people to confronting and eventually embracing the complexity of different cases. There was a lot of unnecessary visual detail, though - who cares what side of the sofa people are sitting on? 

The Runaway Actress - Victoria Connelly

51%
03.05.12

Normally I'd have to be paid to read escapist chick lit but I won this on Twitter... so I sort of was. Of course I didn't have to read it, but any book billed as "sunshine on a rainy day" is more than usually tempting this wet spring. And it was more or less as I imagined - too many adjectives, stereotypical characters and nothing at all threatening, challenging or cruel. The last of which is actually a refreshing change from my typical reading choices - it is an unusual author to be without guile - and a little sunshine never did much harm.