Fascinating. Brilliant. Wonderful. A friend had been telling me to read this for years and I finally did. I started it and thought, oh no is this going to be super boring law jargon and complicated examples? Boy was I wrong. I think the thing I like best about Andrea Lyon's writing is her confidence. She doesn't go overboard to make you realize she's a genius. She explains everything easily and makes it interesting. She isn't trying to prove anything to anyone and I love it. I once read a quote that said, "if you can't explain it simply, then you don't understand it" Go buy it. Thank me later. I am so disappointed in this book and this author. What could have been phenomenal insight into the plight of death row inmates in the United States is nothing more than an entire book of Ms. Lyon congratulating herself on being able to survive as a woman in a man's world. Clearly she was absent from school the day in writing class when we were all told "show, don't tell." The reader would have been able to feel the weight of Ms. Lyon's struggle to do what she loved and felt was right if she hadn't instead used the entire book to tell us how impressed we should be by her. We were already impressed Ms. Lyon. Now we are just put off, and your clients, who should have been the real focus of the book, instead fade to the background.
The stories were interesting, the writing was unfortunately a little dull. However, I enjoyed it.
—CLe0an9gel12
This book was a lot better than I thought it would be. She has had an incredible career.
—tpg
Well written and a great insight to the "other side" of criminal cases.
—saarayy
Great book I will be buying her other one
—lisssy
