Customer Reviews

Criminal Justice

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This book is one of the worst I've read! Ms. Parker must have an excellent publicist to be a bestselling author. The characters weren't at all believable, and I didn't "care" about any of them throughout the entire book. The story didn't make sense either, it seemed to just ramble and never became believable from any angle. Ms. Parker obviously writes from a formula, and does a poor job. I'm sorry I spent good money on this trash.

I bought this book on a lark and really wasn't sure what to think when I picked it up, since I had read a number of the Anthony & Gail books and was worn out by them: tired of the emotional roller coaster, tired of the crisis-driven plot, tired of two so-called adult attorneys behaving so boorishly. I found Criminal Justice to be a delight -- the plot was just snappy enough, the reactions and emotions realistic and for the most part, the dialogue true. I agree that the character development was lacking a bit (so, I went ahead and developed them on my own, mentally, while reading), but if that was the price I had to pay to avoid the overdevelopment of some of Parker's other characters, it was worth it. I will definitely seek out Parker's other non-series books.

I loved this book. The main character Dan Galindo was so likable that I can't wait for Parker to write another book featuring him. The plot and characters kept me from putting this book down; a real page-turner.

I almost put this down halfway through, but my husband was away for the weekend, and I didn't have another book ready to open. Now I'm sorry I wasted the time.

I was very disappointed with this book. Most of the characters are poorly developped. One certainly doesn't feel any of the characters' conflicts. For most of the book there is no mystery, and when it does develop it is unravelled quickly. I found a lot of it predictable also.

Takes some cheek to write a novel around a protagonist who is naive to the point of stupidity, & surround him with unsympathetic characters (except for a kindly downscale law partner with both scruples & intelligence). Dan Galindo, Esq., formerly a U.S. prosecutor, is entirely unsuspicious of a creepy Ecuadorian immigrant living palatially off a mysterious import/export business, & is utterly unaware that the popular music industry is infested with dopers & bottom feeding scumbag managers & promoters. It might have worked had the author twisted this take on South Florida perversity for laughs, like Tim Dorsey. Instead, Parker plays it straight & creatively titles her book "Criminal Justice."

This book was terrible. The characters are full of emotional and social flaws and it is hard to connect with any of them. Dan Galindo, the lead character, is not the most unlikable, but almost. He can't decide which woman to love but doesn't mind sleeping with them in the meantime and stringing them along. Elaine McHale is supposedly a high power attorney but she is having an affair with a despicable married man. There wasn't one redeeming character in the whole shoddy book. The dialogue was trite, the plot totally useless and predictable. If you enjoy such hackneyed dialogue as this: "You have no right to tell me to do a damn thing"..... Hooper slammed a fist into his stomach. "There's my right, ...," then this is the book for you.