A review by gabrielleint
Acts of Service by Lillian Fishman

3.0

Oh god, like, I don’t know. It was good? It was readable. It had interesting things to say it seemed but then it also kind of said nothing? I need to know more about Olivia. I think this book would be best read in one sitting because I was gripped by it in my first reading session but not in my second. Also the deposition part made me mad because both lawyers were doing a bad job and the lawyer defending Eve didn’t register any objections and at one point told Eve she didn’t have to answer something that she 1000% did need to answer because it wasn’t privileged and it was a deposition. I would have pushed back on it and certified the question, which plaintiff’s counsel annoyingly did not do. Like I get that it was a book and was being used to push the narrative forward and like it’s fine if an author is not a lawyer—I just don’t want to read bad depos in my leisure time because I do that enough at work. Also the author did not put quotation marks around people talking and I hate that kind of thing. It made it impossible to tell what characters were just thinking versus saying out loud a lot.