Lethal Justice by Fern Michaels Review
February 12th, 2007 by admin
This is the sixth book in a series called the “Revenge of the Sisterhood” series. The entire series is all about “girl power.”
With some books that are part of a series it’s not necessary to read the books in the order they were written to be able to enjoy each of the books to the fullest. That’s not the case with this series of books though. If you read them out of order you’ll know too much of the plotline of the other books which will spoil the suspense of them and make them too predictable which when then likely lead you find the books boring.
Because I’ve been reading the series as it’s been released I feel like I’ve gotten to know each of the main characters pretty well and find myself wanting to find about more about them and how things are going in their lives.
If there’s one thing I think Fern Michael’s does extremely well in these books, it is how she has developed each of the characters into very distinct people that readers want to cry for, laugh with, cheer on, and get to know better.
Each of the books in the series focuses on one of the members of the Sisterhood and how the group helps extract revenge for the wrong that woman has suffered.
In Lethal Justice, the Sisterhood focuses on carrying out revenge for Alexis. She used to be a successful financial broker with many elderly clients who adored her. But her two employers, Roland Sullivan and Arden Gillespie, defrauded those elderly clients of Alexis’s and set Alexis up to take the fall for their crime. While Arden and Roland were out spending the money they stole from Alexis’s clients, Alexis spent a year in jail and lost her broker’s license.
Because it is now Alexis’s turn for justice, the members of the Sisterhood meet to discuss how to best bring the Sisterhood’s form of justice to Roland and Arden. An elaborate scheme is set up to draw the two of them into a trap that the Sisterhood hopes they will be too greedy to resist.
There’s several twists and turns that keep the story entertaining because what the women of the Sisterhood are doing is risky. If they get caught, all of them, including Alexis will end up in jail and prison is the one place Alexis does not want to have to experience a second time.
Although the storyline is un-realistic and unbelievable at times, it’s entertaining which is exactly what I look for in a fiction book. If I want a big dose of reality I can read the newspaper.
It’s a good book in a good series that I recommend reading.
My rating (0-10 smilies): 8 ☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☺☺