Sophie Diehl is typically a criminal lawyer. When filling in for a colleague on vacation, she finds herself roped into a divorce case for the daughter of one of her lawfirm's biggest clients. Being the child of divorced parents herself, Sophie has never been interested in civil law, but she has no choice but to represent Mia Meiklejohn in an increasingly messy divorce. 
 Told entirely through correspondence, legal papers, and articles The Divorce Papers sounds good on paper, but ends up falling a little short in execution. 
 I've read other books where the entirety (or majority) is told via a third party source such as email. With those other books, what I found worked was that the author was able to establish a connection with the reader. For whatever reason this didn't happen for me with The Divorce Papers. When we would be reading Sophie's personal correspondence was when I would want to know more about her, but it never fully happened. I felt as though when I was finally sucked in, the author would change tactics and the reader would be given some legal ruling to read over instead. I never became invested in Sophie's life outside of the firm and oftentimes I was able to skip through the articles and legal papers understanding the main concept enough not to have to read it through thoroughly. In doing this, I don't feel as though I missed anything of import in the overall story. 
 Overall, with skimming through a lot of the sections, this was a pretty quick read. There were a lot of opportunities, I think, where I was starting to be pulled in but things didn't pan out in the end. Still it wasn't a horrible read, for me it was just kind of so-so.