More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
Oh!
He figured he owed it to them to stay unattached.
🙄
Chevy. Landers briefly envisioned those red lips wrapped around his pole.
Gross
“Obviously, I wouldn’t be here unless I was working some kind of an investigation.”
Not obviously. But okay.
officer, even one as handsome as yourself,
🙄
“Just some information I picked up. He was killed last night.” She
“I didn’t say anything about a murder.”
He literally just said he was killed.
“I thought you said the man was killed,”
“I did, but I didn’t say he was murdered.
Annoying
hide. Landers decided to stick a flashlight up her skirt until he found out what it was.
This is gross
Raymond was Ma’s younger brother. He drowned at the age of seventeen.
Ok
“Joey, you’ve never had a kind word to say about your uncle. What did Raymond ever do to you?”
How did they even meet if he died at 17?
He was sixteen, I think. “I
Oh ok
but it was one of those idiot black rappers. Landers did a quick
Seriously?
And you’re about to find out how much I hate it when sluts lie to me.”
He’s doing way too much with this character in the way of misogyny.
I’d grown hardened to tears and the accompanying sounds, but the crying of this beautiful young girl touched me. I stood up and knocked on the door.
🙄
he would’ve much rather nailed that kid than arrested her. She was hot. She was also
He’s gross
You’ve been on television more than Law & Order reruns.”
Still, she was definitely good-looking enough to screw.
Go away.
And wouldn’t that have been sweet, laying the wood to Dillard’s sister?
No one is this sleazy.
Stupid little slut.
This is a caricature.
was amazed at the changes in both her body and her ability in the six months since I’d last experienced the pleasure of watching her dance. She was no longer a girl; she’d turned into a young woman, a beautiful and talented young woman.
Not sure how I feel about this description
She was so lovely, so pure.
Too much.
Maybe you should go away for a couple weeks.”
Every cop/lawyer/gangster suggests this in movies/books.
“I’m not about to let some lunatic run me out of my home,” Caroline said.
And every wife says this.
The little college cheerleader he’d laid hold of last night must have been more athletic than he thought.
Yuck.
June 23 3:30 p.m.
Lemme just say that at this point, I think this book sucks. But I’m going to finish it because I started it.
What makes her a slut?
“I tell you what let’s do, then,” Erlene
English please.
‘How much fer a suckie thar, Miss Slanty Eyes?’
The men in this book are the worst.
People still say that?
then over at the naked blonde lying next to him.
Every night though? The town ain’t that big.
“You can dress downstairs, on your way out,” Landers said. He was beginning to feel sick.
The worst
short, plump, and bald, and he always wore suspenders.
He’s young. Why is He bald?
Not drinks? Who talks like this?
Phil landers. Philanderer. 🤣
Her beauty
We get it. She looks great. Stop telling us how beautiful she is. Sheesh.
I knew Angel would be attractive to the prospective male jurors, especially if I chose them carefully, and I hoped the attraction would cause them to be sympathetic toward her and want to help her. At
Just ruling out gay men. Ruling out men that aren’t obsessed with the physical appearance of women, like this author.
I introduced Angel and placed my hand on her shoulder.
I would think he’s a creep if I’m a juror. But I also don’t like the men in this book.
Angel had a way of engendering
sympathy in men. I wanted them to feel an instinct to protect her. I wanted them to hope, perhaps to believe, that they could seek her out after the trial was over and let her know it was their vote, or their influence, that had set her free.
🙄
Not numbers???
🙄
Not state?
Here we go again.
My 23rd birthday
touched Angel’s shoulder.
Creep
“No. I would have remembered her.”
Cause she’s so beautiful, right?
“He rolled me over on my stomach and he put his thing in my, in my. ...” She pointed to her bottom.
Grow up
then he took his thing out of me
How old is she?
