This book was a triple threat. It was smart, it was hot, and it was sweet. A perfect combination. ~ Leigh, Guilty Pleasures
Description:
At the powerhouse law firm of Knight & Payne, winning comes first and ethics a distant second. Leary Michaels uses her female charms to daze opponents, and it’s always worked well—until now. On her most personal case yet, she finds herself going up against a defense attorney just as skilled, shameless, and seductive as she is.
Reeve Holloway has never met a woman as sure of her own sexuality, or as ruthless in wielding it, as Leary is. But he won’t be toyed with. What Leary starts, he’ll finish—in the courtroom, the bedroom, or any-damn-place he wants. The sex is uninhibited, electrifying, and absolutely against the rules. Reeve’s job is to ruin Leary’s case…even if it destroys her in the process and costs him the woman he’s come to love.
Review copy provided for an honest review
For anyone looking for a snappy legal drama mixed with dirty sex and a true romance, have I got a book recommendation for you!
Leary Michaels is an attorney extraordinaire. She’s smart and sexy and she knows it. She uses all of her assets to win her cases, and she wins at any cost. Working at a firm that caters to the little guy, she goes against the larger companies to protect her clients’ rights, and she lets nothing get in her way. But she may have met her match in fellow attorney, Reeve Holloway.
Reeve appears to be Leary, in male form. He’s sexy, driven, and wins cases. But what happens when two people who never seem to lose wind up on opposite sides of the same case?
I have to admit that it took me a few chapters to really get into the story. I was not a true fan of either of these characters at first. Leary came off as too brash, too aloof for my tastes. And my first impression of Reeve didn’t fare any better. He seemed taken with a pretty face and had to be goaded into action, not the “take charge” kind of guy that I typically like.
But the more I read, the more I genuinely liked these two.
As we discovered more of Leary’s background, more of her reasoning for taking on the case that brought her and Reeve to opposite sides of the courtroom, she became more sympathetic and human to me. Her actions seemed to be less flash and have more meaning. For a woman that I initially thought was cool and stand-offish, she had more substance that I gave her credit for. The same went doubly so for Reeve. As the case between he and Leary went on, we see that beneath the brash exterior that Reeve portrayed, there was a good man who genuinely cared for Leary. And as he finds his obligations at odds with his personal beliefs and his feelings for Leary, Reeve was caught in the unenviable spot of having to choose between doing his job and following his professional ethics, and risking losing a woman with whom he was falling in love.
The legal nerd in me enjoyed the courtroom drama, my voyeuristic self loved the sex, and my more sensitive side enjoyed the unplanned romance that blossomed between these two.
Don’t let the #8 in the (Legal Affairs #8) scare you off. It wasn’t until after I was done reading the book that I realized it was part of a series and I was late to the party. This story is a stand alone, and at no point did I feel that I missed something by not having read any of the prior books. This book was a triple threat. It was smart, it was hot, and it was sweet. A perfect combination.
Sounds good…Thanks for the review Leigh