Bonnie Kistler

Kelly McCann is a very successful attorney. After her most recent case defending an accused rapist, George Benedict, which she won, she is raped herself. Now, she is out for revenge. She wants to get back at George for the rape, but as she tries, people in her circle are dying. Is he onto her, and eliminating anyone that could finger him for his misdeeds?
An interesting look at the Me Too movement, the Believe Women charge - and what happens if it is you that is affected? A look at social media, at knowing when to fight back, and knowing when to let go. I enjoyed it.… (mehr)

Kelly McCann is a successful attorney. Her specialty is defending men who are accused of sex crimes -- she always refers to them as being falsely accused. Many women felt that she is a traitor to her gender by always taking the accused man's side but she doesn't care. She loves to win and doesn't care what the public thinks of her. As the book begins, she has gotten an acquittal for a male scientist who was accused of assaulting his female employees. She is thrilled with her win and goes to his home to celebrate and while she is there, she is brutally sexually assaulted. She knows that she can't report him and she can't tell anyone because it will ruin the reputation that she's built up by defending men like him. As the days pass, she has more trouble dealing with the mental aftermath of the assault. Will she turn her back on her career and work with women who have been assaulted or will she continue the highly public career that she has worked so hard to build?

In the beginning of the book, I found it hard to accept that Kelly would continue to defend men accused of assaulting women and always blame the women. The more the author reveals about her -- that she has a husband in a vegetative state and children that depend on her, the more real her struggle became. I still had a problem accepting her but at least her background indicated why she defended these men. When she decided to start working with the women that were assaulted by the male scientist, I began to see her as the strong woman that she had been all along but it still wasn't enough for me to like her as a character.

This was a difficult book to read and parts and it may be impossible for some women to read. Overall, I thought it was a good story about a strong woman trying the right the wrongs that she had helped create in her career as she struggled to live her life as a good wife, mother and attorney. But was it too little, too late?… (mehr)