Twist of Fate by Mary Jo Putney

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  • Pub. Date: July 2003
  • 340pp

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    • Pub. Date: July 2003
    • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
    • Format: Mass Market Paperback, 340pp

    Synopsis

    Rob Smith is the kind of guy--and lawyer--Val Covington knows she should avoid: mysterious, handsome, haunted. But when he tries to help her save a man from being executed, she discovers long hidden secrets-along with an irresistible passion.

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    In contrast to the rewarding emotional intensity of Putney's previous romance, The Spiral Path, her latest stumbles under the weight of predictable plotting and a romance that fails to ignite. Corporate attorney Val Covington resolves to turn her life around by starting her own practice and focusing on cases she cares about. While working out of a remodeled church, she meets the troubled but warm-hearted Rob Smith, who arouses both her desire and her innate wariness. He pitches in to help when Val's longtime assistant asks her to save her former lover, who's facing execution for a crime he claims he didn't commit. While the race-against-the-clock plot proceeds by the numbers, Val becomes Big Sister to an emotionally scarred young girl who bonds with her remarkably fast. The romantic relationship, meanwhile, charts a talky course that forces Val to confront some emotional insecurities instilled by her unsupportive father. Along the way, complex problems find glib solutions-in one instance, a teenage mugger reforms after a single lecture-and all loose ends are neatly tied. Putney's fans will enjoy her smooth prose and likable cast of characters, but the serious social issues she tackles cry out for a more honest treatment. (Aug.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

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    Disappointingby Anonymous

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    October 15, 2003: As a long-time fan of Ms. Putney's, I found this book very disappointing. I think, in her efforts to raise social consciousness, Ms. Putney tried to tackle too many hurdles in one story - and with perfectly predictable outcomes. She spent too much time on her soapbox about these issues - and not at all subtly. In one single novel she decried racism, the death penalty, parental abandonment, the effects of violence on society and children, legal injustice, promoted becoming a Big Sister/mentor (a PERFECT relationship with instant love where our heroine must rescue not only her 'sister' but the extended family, as well), shed light on the effect of drugs on society, the Quaker religion, the need for prescription drug coverage, etc. The plot line was predictable, the dialogue forced and superficial, and the outcomes just too good to be true. I applaud Ms. Putney's enthusiasm but lament the fact that her forays into the side issues detract from the plot and made the story-line secondary to the preaching. I admire her convictions, and share many of them - but by the end of the book, I was ready to say, 'Enough, already!'

    One of this author's best!by Anonymous

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    August 18, 2003: Val Covington gets tired of the fast paced corporate life, so she turns her back on her law firm to open her own office. Idealistically, she dreams of helping the downtrodden, taking on hopeless cases, and having a slower paced life. ................ Two out of three is better than nothing. Her life becomes even more fast paced after openig her office in a newly renovated church. It is not long before she has taken on a case at the behast of her assistant, one that may be her first case and first defeat in private practice. She has the challenge to get her assistant's former lover off of death row where he was sent after a false conviction. Helping her untangle the legal snares that trapped an innocent man is her new lover, Rob Smith, a man haunted with his own secrets. As they fight the legal system and the clock, Val and Rob find something wonderful in their own hearts. .............. ***** This is Ms Putney's best contemporary book in a while. The story is complex and touching with detailed characterization.


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