Review for Judgment by Joseph Finder: ★★★

Judgment by Joseph Finder

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


::..Reviewed for Red's Midnight Readers..::

I was kindly offered an ARC of this in exchange for an honest and unbiased review and I have given it 3 stars.

This is the first time I have read anything by this author and when I read the blurb I thought it had an interesting premise and couldn't wait to get stuck in.

However, I did not enjoy this story as much as I hoped I would. Judgement started out quite slow and for the most part I felt like it was actually going anywhere, there was a point when all of these names were being thrown into the mix and I was struggling to keep up.

The pace of this story began to pick up and I found myself starting to enjoy it. The chapters were quite short and read really quickly.

I did enjoy this in the end but it just fell a little short.

Blurb

New York Times bestselling author Joseph Finder returns with an explosive new thriller about a female judge and the one personal misstep that could lead to her--and her family's--undoing.

It was nothing more than a one-night stand. Juliana Brody, a judge in the Superior Court of Massachusetts, is rumored to be in consideration for the federal circuit, maybe someday the highest court in the land. At a conference in a Chicago hotel, she meets a gentle, vulnerable man and in a moment of weakness has an unforgettable night with him. They part with an explicit understanding that this must never happen again.

But back home in Boston, it becomes clear that this was no random encounter. The man from Chicago proves to have an integral role in a case she's presiding over--a sex-discrimination case that's received national attention. Juliana discovers that she's been entrapped, her night of infidelity captured on video. Strings are being pulled in high places, a terrifying unfolding conspiracy that will turn her life upside down.  But soon it becomes clear that personal humiliation, even the possible destruction of her career, are the least of her concerns, as her own life and the lives of her family are put in mortal jeopardy. 

In the end, turning the tables on her adversaries will require her to be as ruthless as they are.

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