Name: Practice Makes Perfect
ISBN: 9781635553574

Carsen Taite

Meet law school friends Campbell, Abby, and Grace, law partners at Austin's premier boutique legal firm for young, hip entrepreneurs. Legal Affairs: one law firm, three best friends, three chances to fall in love.

Practice Makes Perfect

Jude Silberfeld

This is much lighter than Carsen Taite’s usual stories. As a former law student (in another life), one of the reasons I enjoy her books so much is all the legal stuff. Yet she’s also really good at romance, and romance is all this book is about. Sure there are lawyers and a case, but they’re mostly background for the relationship between Campbell and Wynne.

After five years of working for big law firms hoping to make partners and having no life outside of work, best friends Campbell, Grace and Abby decide to leave their jobs and create their own law firm. On the same night, due to a carpet incident, Campbell literally falls into the arms of a beautiful woman, Wynne, whom she vaguely remembers from law school. When a client makes them work on a case together, Campbell finds out that the mousy student she’s known has turned not only into a beautiful and sexy woman but also a very smart one.

It’s a romance so of course they fall in love, despite the fact that each is supposed to be fighting to get the client to choose her firm in the end. Yet from the start they don’t really manage to see the other as the enemy. It’s obvious they try, but what’s meant to be will be (it wouldn’t be a romance otherwise).

It reminded me a bit of Melissa Brayden’s Kiss the Girl, what with the best friends founding their own company together, each bringing her own strengths, and one of them falling for the competition. But the writing is very different, and so are the characters, so it didn’t feel like I’d already read that particular story. 

This is the first book in a new series, and I’m already looking forward to the next one.

I received an ARC from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Megan Cooper

3.25

Taite is starting a new series with this one - the common theme being the trials and romantic tribulations of three young, hot, overachieving and single lawyers who have set up their own firm. For some reason, this reminds me a bit of Brayden's SOHO romance trilogy . This was a light and easy read but didn't hit the same mark as some of Taite's earlier books. 

As the first in the series, the premise has to be set up and characters/circumstances introduced and the first lonely lesbian (Campbell) then has the remainder of the book to meet/argue with/fall in love with her designated love interest Wynne. It's a lot to do and I just got the feeling it was rushed a bit. I didn't get a great feel for Campbell and I actually kind of liked Wynne better. There wasn't a lot of legal wrangling in this book, which is one of the things Taite usually excels at, and I didn't feel that there was enough of a build up of the relationship or chemistry between Campbell and Wynne. 

I enjoyed it while I was reading it but it seemed to gloss over and speed through things - if it had been a bit longer or more focused on the romance or even the legal stuff, it may have jumped closer to a four star rating.