A short, quick thriller to fill your time.

A young Harvard law student falls under the spell of a charismatic judge in this timely and thrilling novel about class, ambition, family and murder. (Goodreads Blurb)

I’m going to keep this review short because the book didn’t pack enough of a punch to go too deep into the storyline, the writing and all the feelings. There just wasn’t a lot there. Which isn’t a bad thing – for me, this was a plane book. We need books that we can read on planes.

Overall, it was a pretty good book that started out slow, and the action built up fairly quickly. The backstory on the judge and how that all filled in was the part of the entire story. Although Madison was a main character, I just wasn’t into her. I didn’t find her intelligent and the relationship between her and her mom was super annoying. Actually, the in relationship with her and her entire family I found super annoying and it was as if it needed to come off genuine.

So this book is available and you are about to hop on a 3 to 4 hour journey, pick it up! Hopefully time flies for you. 

Stats: 320 pages – First published October 3, 2023