Attorney Sabre O. Brown takes on three disconcerting new cases, each with its own illusion: a woman claiming she’s been impregnated by a ghost, a threatening parent prone to violence, and a child bride with a heart-breaking First Amendment issue. At the same time, Sabre tries to protect her mother who is dating a suspicious widower she met on online. In Sabre’s search for justice, she is found … near death after a magician’s illusion deviously goes wrong.
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GREAT
I’ve liked all the Adocate booksi
As an attorney I thought the book was quite realistic. I thought the characters with excellent unwinding the three parts together the way they did was terrific a good read I highly recommended.
I love the Sabre books. I enjoy watching how she connects all the threads to achieve success
Good
excellant as are all authors are. keeps you guessing.
I love this series. Great characters and story line.
It is a good choice for a book easy to read but fairly predictable. Gives some insight into the social workers’ day to day problems as well as the courts and attorneys who are advocates for children.
I always enjoy Teresa Burrell.
As all of the Advocate series, this one is true to form and is a really good look into the (terrible) child welfare system. Well written and interesting characters.
All in all, a very good, informative read.
I love reading Teresa Burrell’s Advocate novels. She is an awesome writer, and Sabre is my hero.
Love the books about Sabra Brown and her advocacy for children of troubled families
It is amazing how this legal thriller involving 3 cases plus flows. It turns in many directions, is fast paced, excellent plot with super outcome. I’ve read many of Ms. Burrell’s books, not all in sequence, and highly recommend her books, you will not be disappointed.
This was my first by this author (but I plan to read the series). Excellent, is what I have to say. More than one story within the story, filled with mystery, fear, anger, and a bit of romance; it’s all in here, yet somehow not confusing with all the cases going on at the same time. If I was a bit confused at the start of a chapter by the case title, I need only read into the first paragraph to remember which family or case the author was focusing on at that time. Teresa Burrell, the writer, knows her stuff as she is an attorney and advocate for children.
This is the ninth in the series. Sabre means well, but has some problems with inter-personal relationships. Sabre is a lawyer, she has a love interest, that she doesn’t have time for, a mother she doesn’t really get along with, a loser brother, and several good friends that are lawyers working in the child protective services with her.
Most of these books are about specific problems that kids run into growing up in the system.
I love the whole series!
Unfortunately, the horrible things that are done to children are all too real. Foster kids are frequently forgotten. Sabre doesn’t forget, and fights for them. We need more people like her fictional character to be real.
Liked it: see my review on site. Have followed all her books
This is one of the best Advocate books I have read (and I think I’ve read them all). There are three cases going on, each a unique story within each case. There’s a drug addicted, looking-for-love, gullible mother; a father with a huge anger management problem; and a religious group with some antiquated beliefs. All of these cases are about the children and how the courts protect them. Sabre’s mother starts internet dating and meets a very nice man, or is he? Because things aren’t as they appear throughout the book, plus a magic show at the beginning and end of the book give the book its title.
I love this book! The Advocate series always has interesting cases and this book is no exception. Sabre is wrapped up in 3 different and intense cases including one dealing with First Amendment rights of a minor who was forced into a marriage with an older man. The characters (the “regulars” and the new cases) are interesting and believable. Sabre gets injured at the end of the story and the person who did it is not one of the obvious suspects.