Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

OK, lots of folks liked this book. In my view, however, after the well-done grabber of a first chapter, it quickly spiraled into a puerile wholly unrealistic annoying book. First, the story pretends to be venued inside big-law -- a mega law firm. But, none of the lawyers in that firm Charles ("Chuck") Rosenberg shows us are any good. Second, Rosenberg uses the word "blob" to describe the media mass that follows celebrity trials. The first time it was clever; the second time, perhaps a clever reminder. By the hundredth time, however, I winced every time I saw the word. Third, the trial-preparation scenes and the trial sequences themselves are also silly beyond belief (as I've noted in other reviews of legal thrillers, even lawyers who claim to be experienced do not generally get this right--some do, of course, William Lashner and Scott Turow are great exceptions). This kind of stuff may fly on television, when most folks also haven't the foggiest idea of what law is about, but in a book by someone with a law degree and a law firm it is, in my view, scandalous. Good writers, and there are many, weave their fiction with sufficient verisimilitude to get us to suspend disbelief. I kept reading because I kept hoping it would be better, and, frankly, because I wanted to see how Rosenberg resolved his plot. Ugh! It was worse than I could have imagined. A total waste of time.