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Six months after passing the bar, Kit Shannon has her own office--and not a single paying client. The one lucrative offer to come across her desk is morally repugnant. Meanwhile, people like Chinese immigrant Wong Shi, who can't afford legal fees, need her help more than ever. When Kit's best friend Corazon's brother Juan is accused of raping a white housemaid, Kit is thrown into the hotbed of fickle, fearful, and prejudiced turn-of-the-century LA. She'll need every ounce of knowledge she possesses, a lot of prayer, and even a few clever tricks to come out on top this time.

Come out on top Kit does, with the mix of integrity and indomitable spirit readers love her for. In Angels' Flight, Kit handily beats the "good old boys" at their own game, using the very law they claim women are too fragile and emotional to understand. She takes a couple pages from the book of mentor Earl Rogers, shaking up courtroom protocol and challenging those in the courtroom to see her clients as human beings for the first time. Her faith remains realistic, but unshakable, right up to her closing argument in the case of Juan Chavez vs. the state of California. She carries the story and does it beautifully.

That's not to say secondary characters get the shaft. Plenty of them get the chance to shine, from Corazon to Ted Fox to a typewriter expert named Ernie who works at the Los Angeles Examiner. In fact, Ernie's key scene in Angels' Flight is one of my favorites, a great example of unexpected expert testimony. I also enjoyed Corazon's key scenes, especially when she muses on the relationship between Protestants and Catholics in her city. I would have liked a little more of that, especially since so many of Angels' Flight's characters are immigrants.

Tracie and James pull off some believable but surprising plot twists, both during the main court case and toward the end of the story. They give Kit a wrenching "black moment," challenging her to grow professionally and spiritually. Some confrontations and revelations are breath-stealing; for example, the authors once fall back on the old adage, "If the story needs a boost, have a guy walk in with a gun." That doesn't work all the time, but it worked great in this book.

Some things worked less well. I needed to know a little more about Ted Fox; he seems like an okay guy, but kind of flat. I also wanted to see more of Juan's personality and motives. It seemed not only unfair, but unrealistic, that Kit would wonder if Juan were guilty essentially because of one display of temper. She's smarter than that. I appreciated Kit's moral dilemma, but it could've been written better. That said, the pieces of what really happened fit together perfectly once you see the solution.

No lawyer wins every case, but Kit Shannon wins another point in Angels' Flight. I'm looking forward to walking into the courtroom with her again--and cheering as she triumphs.


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Angels Flight Shannon Saga Book 2 Tracie Peterson James Scott Bell 9780764224195 Books Reviews

I haven't read this yet but as soon as I get time I will. But Tracie Peterson is my favorite author so I can't wait.
This, the second in The Trials of Kit Shannon series was very well written. Though I have no legal training to judge the trial depiction which seemed logical, I was born and raised in Los Angeles. I did very much enjoy the descriptions and 1904 history of the city. I was pleased that the descriptions of locations seemed accurate, because errors of this kind can be frustrating to the reader.
Another great story in the series! The authors bring to life how life for a young woman striving to enter the legal profession was at a time when only men were lawyers during the early 1900s. The story is expertly written with lots of surprising twists and turns while also effectively weaving Kit's Christian faith throughout the story. I'd highly recommend it!
Rich or poor, skin color, male or female - make no assumption of guilt or innocence or competence. Faith should not lead to laziness. This story explores these boundaries.
I'm now addicted to this book series. Please keep writing more. Eventually, have intuitively superior super attorney Kit Shannon transported through time to today to interview Donald Trump, mediate the GOP presidential debate, and then be appointed as a Supreme Court Justice. Then turn that into a movie! This series is so fascinating because of it being believably situated in Los Angeles around 1900 turn of the century, yet depicting the social tensions, religious divisions and male-female psychological complexities that we deal with today. This is an easy and enjoyable read that will also makes you think deeply about life and today's issues while enjoying a fast paced terrific story. Well done! ~ Keith in Los Angeles
Very nicely done. The courtroom drama is excellent and the characters come alive to an unusual extent for a potboiler, though the repetitive emphasis on Kit's Christian fundamentalism becomes a bit tedious. Both authors have a good grasp of the English language, though neither seems to know the difference between "pour" (Cause a liquid to flow from a container) and "pore" (Direct one's attention on something). Thus we have Kit "pouring" over her research materials. It's one of remarkably few errors of that sort for a book, so this criticism probably is a nitpick, though it'll knock you back when you come to it. All in all, a creditable job of plotting and writing.
I'm a very picky fiction reader and it takes a lot for me to invest myself (literally and figuratively) into a new novel. Having just completed Angels Flight, the 2nd in the Trials of Kit Shannon series, I was just as eager to read this one as the first in the series.

Hands down, the most powerful factor in my continuing to read this series is the unmistakable fingerprint of James Scott Bell in the writing. The sense of place he creates, his passion for LA, comes shining through his work. Sure, I like strong characterization and a great plot (which this book definitely has) but above all, a passion for place is what I'm looking for in what I read.

And I'm reading this series at an appropriate time in my life. While I'm not a woman in a male dominated profession, one thing that is still the same as the situations in these books is that power corrupts easily, and the needs of the individual are frequently stomped down in favor of business and industry and wealth. Being terribly disheartened about he cold-hearted approach of the industry I work in, I hope perhaps that reading about Kit Shannon at work will inspire me to keep fighting against the establishment. Because someone has to care.

I've already downloaded book 3 of the series and am reading away....
Six months after passing the bar, Kit Shannon has her own office--and not a single paying client. The one lucrative offer to come across her desk is morally repugnant. Meanwhile, people like Chinese immigrant Wong Shi, who can't afford legal fees, need her help more than ever. When Kit's best friend Corazon's brother Juan is accused of raping a white housemaid, Kit is thrown into the hotbed of fickle, fearful, and prejudiced turn-of-the-century LA. She'll need every ounce of knowledge she possesses, a lot of prayer, and even a few clever tricks to come out on top this time.

Come out on top Kit does, with the mix of integrity and indomitable spirit readers love her for. In Angels' Flight, Kit handily beats the "good old boys" at their own game, using the very law they claim women are too fragile and emotional to understand. She takes a couple pages from the book of mentor Earl Rogers, shaking up courtroom protocol and challenging those in the courtroom to see her clients as human beings for the first time. Her faith remains realistic, but unshakable, right up to her closing argument in the case of Juan Chavez vs. the state of California. She carries the story and does it beautifully.

That's not to say secondary characters get the shaft. Plenty of them get the chance to shine, from Corazon to Ted Fox to a typewriter expert named Ernie who works at the Los Angeles Examiner. In fact, Ernie's key scene in Angels' Flight is one of my favorites, a great example of unexpected expert testimony. I also enjoyed Corazon's key scenes, especially when she muses on the relationship between Protestants and Catholics in her city. I would have liked a little more of that, especially since so many of Angels' Flight's characters are immigrants.

Tracie and James pull off some believable but surprising plot twists, both during the main court case and toward the end of the story. They give Kit a wrenching "black moment," challenging her to grow professionally and spiritually. Some confrontations and revelations are breath-stealing; for example, the authors once fall back on the old adage, "If the story needs a boost, have a guy walk in with a gun." That doesn't work all the time, but it worked great in this book.

Some things worked less well. I needed to know a little more about Ted Fox; he seems like an okay guy, but kind of flat. I also wanted to see more of Juan's personality and motives. It seemed not only unfair, but unrealistic, that Kit would wonder if Juan were guilty essentially because of one display of temper. She's smarter than that. I appreciated Kit's moral dilemma, but it could've been written better. That said, the pieces of what really happened fit together perfectly once you see the solution.

No lawyer wins every case, but Kit Shannon wins another point in Angels' Flight. I'm looking forward to walking into the courtroom with her again--and cheering as she triumphs.