I was riding both sides of the courtroom with this novel, not sure really if I wanted to believe the defendant or the prosecutor in this case. It all came down to one event, one encounter and with only two people witnessing the event, it was her story against his, two completely different stories. He claimed he called off the affair but the events that transpired between these two individuals tell a different story. It’s a, who did what and who said what, when the lift was called and these two individuals walked inside it. It’s the jury who will hear the case and have to decide who is actually telling the truth, they have someone’s future in their hands.
The novel is told from a few different viewpoints and I knew someone was not being honest. I felt for the wife of the defendant as she knew nothing about the affair until it became public news and her husband sat her down to confess. I think she behaved appropriately, going through all the emotions and considerations. She was a kept woman, it’s what she had wanted and standing by her man was what she thought was the best solution. I didn’t his wife to begin with but as the story was being played out, I found to like her a great deal. The story adds a new element now as I read, it flashes back in time to when the wife was in college. We see what she was like, who her friends were and events that occurred during a brief time while she was there. This new view adds a twist to the story, a twist that becomes critical to the case. I pondered this twist, I envisioned different scenarios, some worse than others. I wanted the worse, it’s not that I’m evil, I just wanted justice.
As I read this novel, I kept anticipating when something dramatic would occur. I liked the court scenes, I liked the order and control yet there was this intensity of what was being said and the drama of the whole situation. As the two stories started to come together, I found myself holding my breath as individuals were giving their testimony under oath. I was high strung in the end, I wanted blood, I wanted it all, and as I looked at what was left of the novel there were too many pages left to give me the justice I wanted. Was justice served in the end? You betcha, but I would have dug much deeper!
I won a copy of this book from Bookish First, this review is my own honest opinion.
The novel is told from a few different viewpoints and I knew someone was not being honest. I felt for the wife of the defendant as she knew nothing about the affair until it became public news and her husband sat her down to confess. I think she behaved appropriately, going through all the emotions and considerations. She was a kept woman, it’s what she had wanted and standing by her man was what she thought was the best solution. I didn’t his wife to begin with but as the story was being played out, I found to like her a great deal. The story adds a new element now as I read, it flashes back in time to when the wife was in college. We see what she was like, who her friends were and events that occurred during a brief time while she was there. This new view adds a twist to the story, a twist that becomes critical to the case. I pondered this twist, I envisioned different scenarios, some worse than others. I wanted the worse, it’s not that I’m evil, I just wanted justice.
As I read this novel, I kept anticipating when something dramatic would occur. I liked the court scenes, I liked the order and control yet there was this intensity of what was being said and the drama of the whole situation. As the two stories started to come together, I found myself holding my breath as individuals were giving their testimony under oath. I was high strung in the end, I wanted blood, I wanted it all, and as I looked at what was left of the novel there were too many pages left to give me the justice I wanted. Was justice served in the end? You betcha, but I would have dug much deeper!
I won a copy of this book from Bookish First, this review is my own honest opinion.