It Should be a Crime

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If you touch somebody in any sort of way, you could go to jail for battery. But I really don't think we should fill the jails with unsuspecting people who called somebody "stupid" on twitter or spread a rumor about their boyfriend. That just doesn't make sense and seems ridiculous to me! Bullying shall not be considered a crime.

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People who commit suicide because of bullying are very stupid and idiotic. People shouldn't be locked up for saying offensive or mean words. But if the bully gets to physical then charges should be pressed. It is total bullshit that kids are in jail for just saying mean words. I also believe that the consequences for bullying especially kids should result into School suspension instead of reporting it to the Authorities. Bullying should only be a crime if the supposed victim commits suicide. People shouldn't be going to prison for just saying mean things to another.

I think that that it's bullshit that kids are being locked up just for saying mean words. Even if the bully gets physical with their victim, charges should not be pressed on the bully. I believe that the consequences for bullying especially for kids , should result into School suspension instead of reporting it to the Authorities. Bullying is a thing in life.

No way around it. It's not the bully's fault if somebody didn't get the attention they wanted by playing victim and acting like the world is out to get them so they jumped of a bridge, just to get MORE attention. This is ludicrous and all this is just nonsense. Andrew debose aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaajjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj jjjjjjjjjjjjjjj j j j j j j j j j j j j j j j j j j j j j j j j j jj j j j j j j j j j j j j j j j j j j j j j j j j j.

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The next day she has decided to move, ends things quickly with the ex and then is already in another. Yeah, it could have been better portrayed. One of Morgan's friends tries to arouse in her the desire to help in one of his cases. The character is reluctant but somehow, without even trying to enthral her, this friend gets her to agree to work on it. If the character was not willing to help with the case, how come without her friend instilling a valid curiosity, she ends up accepting?

If the author had disclosed that MC accepted it because she was doing her friend a favor or because the case had certain difficulties that made her intrigued or something similar, it would be easy to agree with the narrative.

It Should Be a Crime

However, the author doesn't explain any of this. Only that for no apparent reason MC accepts the proposal. And then there is not even one explanation why the friend of the character has accepted the case himself, since the client has no relation to any of them, has no money to have hired, has no crucial information to offer in his defense.

Sometimes when the characters are talking to each other, telling a story of a moment in their lifes, the impression is that the author ends up entering the dialogue, so that it doesn't look like a character talking to the other but rather the narrator narrating the story in a 3 point of view or something. I read the same paragraph twice and could not get this impression out of my head that the narrator ended up mingling with the character's personality in the conversation.

The author tells us the age of the main characters but at certain times they seem to be much younger mentally and emotionally than the supposed age. Parker is then the champion to look like a teenager on some occasions. The end seemed forced and rushed. The resolution between MC and the suspect in the case was very artificial and the way the characters ended up in the "I love yous" and the distress after a dangerous situation Anyway, taking away these points that could have been improved I feel that the author's writing has potential and I really enjoyed all the technical procedure and assembly of the case.

Of course, the smut parts were great too. This is a light and quick read for a Saturday in the park or an easy read between the trip from work to home. This is my first Carsen Taite book. Both Morgan and Parker are interesting characters in their own right.

What I liked was that they were equally matched, both having some strengths and weaknesses that got balanced as their romance develops. Sometimes their reactions and actions contradicted their general p This is my first Carsen Taite book. Also, the power difference dynamic brought out some interesting qualities in both women, and not in expected ways. Morgan is a famous and well known criminal lawyer. Later on, she does say that she feels love is more about the practicalities of relationships: But Parker brings out the more passionate, unpredictable and wild side of Morgan, which keeps Morgan on her toes, trying to keep her normally unflappable self, unflappable.

Parker is also a complex and fun character.

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On the one hand, her only long term relationship ended in disaster due to differences in opinion about ethics and a definite betrayal, but on the other hand, she basically only has one night stands, never really going past the first time with someone. A former cop, she got disillusioned by the Blue code of Silence over unethical cop behavior and is now channeling her do the right thing standard into being a criminal lawyer. Of course, outside of the excellently written crime drama of this story, which was perfectly paced to keep up some mystery, this is foremost a romance.

This is a legitimate foil for them since they hooked up before they each knew they would have any kind of working relationship. But Carsen Taite managed to rein that element back in each time just when it would start to become too much. However, even though I liked the development of the romance between Morgan and Parker, it was missing some spice, or spark that I needed to feel that these two would die without each other.

Other than that, I highly recommend this book.

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Sep 25, T rated it liked it Shelves: This book started off very hot and interesting. Cheating ex, back ally action with a stranger at a bar, hot character descriptions Then it got into the actual story; the lawyer teaching a class, and the woman she met in the alley is a student. There was an interesting high profile case they worked on that took up most of the book. I found that i was starting to lose interest the more and more the story became about the legal issues. I'm not saying that it was bad, I'm just not big on legal th This book started off very hot and interesting.

I'm not saying that it was bad, I'm just not big on legal themed stories.

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And unfortunately, by the time it dropped back into the romance here and there, i found i didn't care any more. I would have taken some of the lengthy legal talk out of the middle, and added more time to the relationship and a less abrupt ending. But that's just me. You may like those very things that i found boring.

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The author did a decent job of the hot and steamy, but after the beginning of the book, there wasn't much more. Her writing style was decent and well edited. Having said that, please note that -i- found it uninteresting. Doesn't mean that you will. And it doesn't speak at all to the author's ability to write or tell a story.

I liked the strong start, and have no doubt if it kept my interest it might have gotten 4 or 5 stars. Morgan, a famous defense lawyer, is newly back in her home town, having moved across town to take up an academic post and move into a new home with her longtime lover, only to discover that her lover has other ideas. Planning to drown her sorrows, she takes the wrong door out of the bar, and has to be rescued by one of the barstaff. They spend the night together, only to discover later that Parker is one of the more mature students on the course Morgan is teaching.

When the opportunity comes up Morgan, a famous defense lawyer, is newly back in her home town, having moved across town to take up an academic post and move into a new home with her longtime lover, only to discover that her lover has other ideas. When the opportunity comes up for Morgan and three of her students, including Parker and the other former police officer in the group, to provide the defense in what seems to be an open and shut case, the women have to try and work together while deciding between their attraction and keeping a professional distance until the course and the trial are over.

I liked this book a lot, although there were a few points early on where I would have edited it differently, but the official blurb doesn't fully do it justice. A big cast of richly drawn characters, and mostly believable situations for the standards of the genre.

I was already a fan of Carsen Taite's video posts on the Women and Words blog; now I need to read more of her books. Nov 23, Tinything rated it it was amazing. This is such a great book. The author is doing great on mixing the romance and the murder case together. Nick Hogan, 43, from Chorley, has just been released after being jailed for six months for failing to pay fines for smoking-ban breaches at his two Bolton pubs.

Hogan was the first person imprisoned as a result of the prohibition on smoking in public places in England. He could not afford to pay but it never crossed his mind, or occurred to many of us for that matter, that letting smokers light up when everyone in the pub, both customers and staff were happy for them to puff away, might lead to jail. As his wife, Denise, said: He didn't want to change the law, he just thought if people wanted to smoke it should be their choice. We never expected him to go to jail.

He hasn't harmed anybody and he isn't a criminal. After 11 days inside, he was released when friends and campaigners raised the cash, which was delivered by a masked man calling himself Old Holborn. What a parable for our times this is.

Where was the anti? Why did the lobby that condemns short custodial terms for common thieves not put their hands in their pockets for Hogan's freedom collection? More than that, why are they so silent when sentences for serious criminals are so disproportionately weak? Peter Chapman, the vile killer of Ashleigh Hall, the teenager who met him on Facebook, had previously spent five years in jail for raping two women at knife-point.

How is that possible?

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