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Author's Note:, December 16, 2006
This review is from: When Justice is Served (Paperback)
When I first started writing 'When Justice is Served', a friend of mine had recently been raped. It was a devastating struggle for her to attempt to overcome the deep trauma that subtracted from her mental and emotional peace of mind. In her own words, she stated, "One never gets over such a horrible thing, and it leaves scars that affect one's entire life."
Statistics on rape in the United States are astounding. Every two minutes or less, someone is sexually assaulted, and approximately one-fifth of all American women become victims of sexual assault. Statistics are higher among college students. While most rapes are never reported, neither is the tragedy a rape victim suffers in the struggle to find physical, mental, and most of all, emotional healing. Some never find it.
My book, 'When Justice is Served', gives a fictional account of one young woman's dramatic struggle to overcome the devastating trauma that nearly destroyed her life. Although her story is dramatized, it nevertheless characterizes to a large degree what a rape victim must go through toward seeking balance in a disrupted life.
I hope you enjoy my book, and if you are a rape victim, I hope Nicole Duval's perseverance toward overcoming the neurosis sustained from her rape will serve as motivation for you to keep trying to find peace and happiness in your own life.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Great crime novel with an intoxicating love story, March 24, 2007
This review is from: When Justice is Served (Paperback)
Bright, beautiful, law-school educated with a great future--it all falls by the wayside for young Nicole Duval as she falls victim to a vicious, brutal, life-changing sexual assault. The mental and emotional aftermath memory ruptures her every attempt to resume a normal life.
In Cooper's riveting, page-turning, totally absorbing tale of mystery and suspense is a story filled with love, longing and unrequited desires of the flesh and heart in which she plays out the rumble and explosion of Nicole's uncontrollable emotions.
Cooper reveals a deep personal understanding of what happens to a normal, warm-blooded woman who has been subjected to violent and tortuous sexual degradation. In shocking detail, she gives us an unforgettable play-by-play account of one of the worst sins of man against woman. You don't just read her words. You feel it in your gut until it sickens you.
As Cooper's central man-woman romantic storyline develops, she demonstrates a remarkable ability to capture the raw, carnal-driven nature of a loving, passionate and viral man in his prime struggling to be a compassionate and understanding lover and committed partner-for-life.
Cooper writes of the backroom goings-on in a metropolitan courthouse as if she were one of the in-crowd. Her expert presentation of courtroom etiquette, tactics, rules of evidence and procedure is mesmerizing. You are there. You see and feel the jurors shrinking back and folding their arms over their chest for security as the accused rapist-defendant young Nicole Duval is prosecuting is ordered to openly display to the jury the telltale physical evidence of his body for all to see.
Suddenly, you feel the dynamic young district attorney's heart pounding in her chest as she discovers with a start--in the middle of trial in the courtroom, itself--that the arrogant defendant she is prosecuting is, in fact, the very same man that viciously attacked her years ago. Without warning, Nocole Duval stands face-to-face with her savage rapist. Emotionally spellbinding!
I was hooked and drawn into Cooper's story in its first few pages. As I read on, I had to tear myself away in order to take a break to eat and sleep. Everything unessential had to wait. This great story could not wait! Jeanette Cooper's skill in developing breathtaking suspense is nothing short of masterful.
When Justice Is Served is an emotional trip to rival the best novel I have ever read. The story plot is intoxicating. I simply couldn't move from my chair as I ripped through the pages to the dramatic resolution, a totally surprising and unexpected climax that pulls at the heartstrings.
Yes, it's true: In the last few pages of this magnificent novel, I cried. What a trip!
If you read nothing else this year, read When Justice is Served. This is one great novel!
REVIEWED BY: Richard Lee Orey
Official Court Reporter (retired)
Author: The Paradise of Revenge
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