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Review title: Can't believe this got published
Product review: This book is shockingly bad. Virtually every scene made me cringe with embarrassment. I expect to have to suspend disbelief in my light summer reading, but this book was just ridiculous. Just to give an example: in the opening scenes, the protagonist, a beautiful young lawyer, hires a male stripper to get naked in the courtroom to make a point in her presentation to a judge. Instead of getting thrown in jail, the judge grants her motion. This is supposed to demonstrate that she's a gutsy advocate, but it is so beyond anything even remotely in the realm of possibility that it is simply silly. The book goes downhill from there. The characters are flat, the dialog is clunky, and the plot is just plain stupid. I can't imagine that anyone connected with this book actually thought it was good. I can picture the author, editor and publisher sitting around laughing at the readers with contempt and condescension.
