Reviewer: Robyn Roberts
Title: Laying Down the Law
Author: Susan Stephens
Publisher: Mills & Boon Modern Heat
ISBN-13: 978-0-263-86368-0
Release Date: January 2008
Genre/Sub-genre: Contemporary Romance
Year/Setting: Present day Cambridge
Overall Rating: 3.25
Sexual Content Rating: Sensual
Language (Profanity/Slang) Rating: None/Mild
Violent Content Rating: None
Susan's Website:
susanstephens.net
Carly Tate is a woman on a mission. She must win the Unicorn scholarship and prove to her family and her hometown her capability to be a good lawyer. She’s been given a mentor for the semester. Assistance to get that scholarship sounds perfectly delightful…until she meets dark, dangerous and Italian Lorenzo Domenico. Not only is he a top-notch lawyer, but her professor and scholarship mentor as well. Too bad she dings his Alpha Romeo on the first day of classes. From there, she assumes things can only look up. However, reality is a car ding is just the start of the downward spiral of the control of her life being taken from her.
Carly can’t think when she’s around Lorenzo. He throws her totally off-balance and her shyness takes on epic proportions around him. He makes unreasonable demands, won’t give assistance—like a mentor should—and seems to want her to fail. When he ends up moving into the flat where she happens to be living for a few weeks, she wonders if one can be swallowed by the floor or die of mortification.
Little does Carly know that she’s not the only dumbstruck one. Lorenzo can have his pick of any beautiful, sophisticated woman; yet he’s drawn to plain Jane, poorly dressed, awkward Carly. He thinks that a siren is waiting to cry out and that there’s a figure that won’t stop underneath the clothes. He’d love to be the one to find out.
I enjoyed the story. The lengths Lorenzo goes through to weed out the weakest students is hysterical. Carly is a tough cookie and when she makes up her mind to do something, she’s going to give it her all.
Since this is a Modern Heat book, the love scenes (and almost love scenes leading us to bed) definitely bring on the heat. There were portions of the story that I found to be stilted and seemed incongruous with the rest. While the overall storyline was well done, there were just some occasions where the story failed to draw me into it. Carly and Lorenzo are such polar opposites that their story was very entertaining and I found it to be an easy and enjoyable book to read.
Robyn
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