My rating: 4 stars
Publisher: WMG Publishing
On a recent peruse of my out of control ebook library, I realized that there were a couple of shorts from The Retrieval Artist series that I hadn't read. Reading this served to remedy that oversight & also help me to move a couple of additional ebooks over to the finished column.
This takes us back to Kerrie's beginnings as a lawyer. I remembered her from the series so this was a nice look in that explained her trajectory a bit. The haul in the Earth Alliance InterSpecies Court for the First District is the most unenviable and soul-crushing branch in the Multicultural Tribunal System and she's almost clear of having put in her time to work off those student loans (clearly, the student debt load life of penury doesn't get sorted in this future). One morning, she takes on a case in exchange for shifting some of her own and this case is the one that changes everything. I won't give away any spoilers but it's a good twist and that coupled with the reason she gets this particular case, was well done. I quite liked this one. I don't know if I'd have felt differently if I'd read this while reading the series but as I already knew the main character, it was worth the read. Recommended for fans of the series.
Summary: Short Side Story in the Retrieval Artist series. Set in The Judicial System of the Earth-Alien Alliance. Miles does not appear.
To pay off her law school debts, Kerrie works in the public defender’s office at the Interspecies Court. She has more clients than she can defend, most of them from cultures she does not understand. The public defender’s office loses almost all of its cases, but sometimes it gets a win. Kerrie thinks she has a winner. But does she? Or will winning the case mean she loses at everything else?
To pay off her law school debts, Kerrie works in the public defender’s office at the Interspecies Court. She has more clients than she can defend, most of them from cultures she does not understand. The public defender’s office loses almost all of its cases, but sometimes it gets a win. Kerrie thinks she has a winner. But does she? Or will winning the case mean she loses at everything else?
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