There may have been a time or two while someone else did something, but I personally never did anything wrong.” Her tone seemed easy, but she watched him carefully. Or, when Miranda explains her role in The Patron’s empire: ”Under the rule of Lord Hale, a man who becomes voluntarily drunk is responsible for his actions, the same as if he were sober.” The man tries to put forth the defense of “I was drunk, I didn’t know what I was doing!” and Smite replies,

In the initial petty session where we see Smite doing his Lord Justice act, a man has been summoned on a charge of public drunkenness, but also set his daughter’s woodshed on fire. So what I loved about this book, as the brain-dead law student I am, is all the legal shit which made laugh and laugh and giggle. Seriously, I don’t want to spoil things, and that’s hard. “Oh, Lord Justice, you do know how to woo a woman. Smite decides that nothing else will do but to set her up as his mistress and give Robbie an apprenticeship as a shipwright. So she gets under his skin, as the heroine is wont to do, and he manages to find out where she lives on the Wrong Side of Town, and shows up on her doorstep, and her ward (Robbie) clonks him over the head with a poker. Smite, however, has an eidetic memory and recognized her from previous stints as a witness. Having been raised by actors, she has a facility with disguises, wigs, costuming and accents. She meets Smite (officially) when she goes to the petty sessions to be an alibi witness for a kid- the Patron asked her to. Our heroine is Miranda, who was, as she says a lot, “raised by actors” and does favors in exchange for protection and whatnot for the local mob boss, known as The Patron. He’s a magistrate in Bristol, and even though his older brother is a Duke (long story, you can find it in Unveiled), he lives a simple, rather austere life and is known as Lord Justice. Smite was nearly killed by her, and has a distinct lack of trust for people. This is the third book in the Turner brothers trilogy- the three boys had a mother who was not the most stable of people, and the all reacted to her abuse in different ways. SO HERE I AM and I’m also a little (a lot) unhinged (which totally should be the title of Courtney’s next book).Īnyway, so I got an advance copy of Unraveled in a giveaway during the Sizzling Not Summer Book Club chat and there was pressure for a review and here we are because Smite is AWESOME and I LOVE HIM and Miranda is FANTASTIC and also I really don’t want to write this stupid paper. Or doing anything I really should be doing.

You guys know that I’m in my last year of law school (ABOUT FUCKING TIME) and it’s finals coming up and I SHOULD be writing a paper, but Sarah knows very well that I usually do reviews when I’m avoiding writing.

Unraveled by Courtney Milan