Practice Makes Perfect
Ratings18
Average rating3.5
This was my first romance genre book. For a romance book this was pretty tame, the book itself kinda makes comments how it's pg13 level content. My favorite troupe was going on here, where the characters are competitive with each other, but don't want other people to know. So on the outside they are very polite and maybe friendly with each other, on the inside and when alone is when things get heated. Then start to bond and fall in love with each other!
So, has my favorite troupe (points!) but the characters are very flat. They make a point to make sure you know how different they are! One's conservative men's rights white boy and the other is a liberal grew up financial broke family feminist...although, this really doesn't matter AT ALL! None of the character go through much character development, I'm especially not impressed with Payton being a feminist type character and having no issue or question of ethics defending a company with a giant sexual discrimination/harassment (i can't remember which one) filed against them. This would be a perfect time for Payton to question staying with a firm that can offer her partnership, even if it's against something she stands for and for J.D. to shed some light on his misogynist views and see how it affects women and maybe even Payton's career. They would do some bonding and start their own law firm...nah, too complicated. Let's just make it solely about them.
This was my first romantic genre book, def. had some fun moments that made it readable. I would be interested in trying this genre again! ~Ashley
This was very bad. Very bad.
A few disclaimers:
I generally really like this author, I have read basically her entire FBI/Attorney books and have given all of them a 3+ rating. This one, however, was written many years earlier which I think is part of the problem.
Also, the entire story is unrealistic in a way I simply cannot ignore. Being a law student, working in various law firms, and taking employment law in general this book was painful to read when it came to looking at the realism issues. Besides that, it was overly cheesy, I hated the characters and just didn't care about them, and the weird democrat v. republican and feminist subplots were VERY weirdly and badly done. Very upsetting.