The Law of Attraction by Roxie Cooper

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"Well, it's fair to say your background isn't conventional in terms of the average barrister…" Dolus points out. "Well that depends on your definition of conventional and who wants to be average anyway?"

Northern girl Amanda Bentley isn’t your average lawyer.

She spent her teenage years in the Working Men’s club and hanging out in the park to avoid going home. Fresh out of law school she lands pupillage at a top set of Chambers and is catapulted into a world completely alien to her own, fighting prejudice and snobbery at every turn.

Piling on the pressure, this year it is announced two candidates have been accepted but there’s only one job at the end of it. And her competition? Marty, her smarmy law school nemesis.

Throw into the mix an ill-advised romance with the staggeringly sexy Sid Ryder and Amanda quickly realises winning pupillage isn’t just about how good a lawyer you are.

But even if she does come out on top, all of it could be for nothing if her colleagues ever discover who she really is and one very dark secret. 

My thoughts

I was more than happy to give this an 8/10 or 4 stars. My thanks to the Author via TBConFB for the opportunity to read this story in exchange for an honest review. I enjoyed this debut novel and will look forward to reading more by this Author in due course.

Amanda Bentley isn't your typical lawyer. Coming from a working class background she has a lot to prove in order to proceed in her chosen career. As she takes on her probationary pupillage in one of the best Chambers in her area, she not only has to prove that she can do it and is good at what she does, she also has to beat another pupil to take the position in Chambers as there is only one place available. Marty is the other candidate that she is pitted against, he is her nemesis from law school. Marty appears to fit in well with his peers and she is often seen as a fish out of water.

Throw in a rather bad mistake on her part of falling for Sid Ryder a fellow member of the Chambers that she is in, despite having been warned that it's not good practise to get involved with one's acquaintances in Chambers. When has the heart ever listened to advice like this? Not very often.

Will Amanda succeed in winning the position or will Marty snatch it from under her nose or will her past stop her from getting on with her career?

I enjoyed this story and whilst I've read some reviews that have said that some of the events that occur in the probationary pupillage period in this story weren't strictly correct, this is not something that I can comment on from having no experience in Law as a career. However, as a story I think it worked well for me and I found it a believable enough scenario.

I found Amanda a likeable character and was championing her corner all the time. I wanted her and Sid to be a couple despite some of her misgivings, we can all get the wrong end of the stick at times and Amanda was no different than anyone else for doing this.

To find out how Amanda's life is affected during the pupillage and where she is once the year is up, then grab a copy and find yourself a comfy seat, so that you can immerse yourself in her adventures.