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Title: Who could have guessed that lawyers are actually people, too?
Review: Roosevelt's "In the Shadow of the Law" did something I'd considered impossible: I actually sympathized for a fictional group of young, urban, professionals. If it can get any worse than that, they were lawyers. The characters' shockingly realistic personalities, neuroses, and mannerisms lead me to believe that Roosevelt is either an extremely keen observer of both self and peer, or possibly a genius slipping into both schizophrenia and multiple-personality disorder. Does it matter?I would believe this work to be enjoyed most by fans of Joyce, Tolkein, or Herbert; it's language and character development both allow the reader a seamless transition into a world foreign to most, a world found only 'in the shadow of law.'
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