Once you get passed the sexual violence this becomes an enjoyable comfort read.

The synopsis and title of this are really misleading. They promise a story about a town that when its local paper changes owners to a young outsider, the paper is almost doomed till a brutal murder happens and the paper is saved. The murderer is accused and, at the final trial, he threatens the jury that he’d get each one of them. Nine years later, the retribution begins. That’s not what the story is about at all.

This has been on my shelf for almost 2 years now, nagging and intimidating me. I was really intrigued by the synopsis but kept putting it off because it was from the adults’ section and I’ve never tried that before. Alas, I braced and picked it up.

The writing was good, the characters were great, the setting was interesting, yet it dragged. It’s not because of anything in the book exactly, it’s just because IT LIED TO ME! I was ready for a gruesome murder, a furious trial, a bloody retribution. I got all these in small bursts throughout the story. Because the story wasn’t about them, it was about the town, its racial discrimination and it’s young new owner of the paper. It’s about a murder that shakes that town and intrigues the young reporter, Willie, and he takes it upon himself to investigate and uncover all its secrets. And there I sat, waiting for the story to start, furious because I was half way through and it still didn’t.

Don’t get me wrong, this was very informative about the 1960s and 1970s in the America’s south and a lot of the things that happened were interesting. It’s just that I would have never read something like that if I knew what it was actually about and I felt kind of cheated. Because I was cheated. Look at that title and that cover! That’s doesn’t represent the novel at all. This is a lie *huffs*.

It was a very good book despite knowing from the beginning of the killings that Hooten was the assassin.

The relationship between Miss Callie and Willie is lovely and its ending is a bit sad.

The atmosphere of the “small town, big hell” is always present in this novel as in all the ones that are based in Clanton by Grisham.

Grisham is almost always either hit or miss for me. This one was a miss. Still, it's Grisham, which makes it easy and fun to listen to while I run.

Wow what another brutal read, a woman is found murdered and raped in her bedroom, a man is on death row for it and lots of twists at the end

Great read!!

Wow, "The Last Juror" is now my official favorite Grisham book. So good. A very satisfying read. It seemed much different. From the perspective of an outsider, who purchases the local newspaper, we follow the stories and life of Willie Traynor. Willie befriends the local Clayton attorney Harry Rex and follows a notorious rape and murder trial, that ends with Willie's introduction to Juror Miss Callie. "The Last Juror" provides a satisfying and heart warming story that, although centers on the trial and later fallout, takes a back seat to the friendship he develops with Miss Callie's family. A great read. Grisham's best work.

Er wordt een moord gepleegd in Clanton, een vrouw wordt in haar huis verkracht en daarna vermoord en haar twee kleine kinderen hebben dit gezien. Ze rennen naar de buren, en de buurman ziet nog juist de vrouw naar buiten strompelen en voor ze sterft zegt ze nog: het was Danny Padgitt.

Willy Traynor heeft net de plaatselijke wekelijkse krant overgekocht, en is overal op zoek naar nieuwtjes. Deze moord is natuurlijk voorpaginanieuws.
Naarmate hij langer in het kleine plaatsje Clanton woont, krijgt Willy meer voeling met de bewoners. Het is vanuit het standpunt van de journalist dat deze zaak en vele andere dingen die gebeuren in Clanton, verteld worden in dit boek. Ik vond dit een zeer interessante aanpak.

Het is ook een spannend verhaal, zeker naar het einde toe. Ik vond dit een zeer goed boek, dat vlot las.

I really enjoyed this. I’ve read pretty much everything Grisham has written, and there were several “Easter eggs” in here that referred to people and places that had bigger roles in some of his other books, which was fun.

It was interesting that it was told from the angle of the press rather than a lawyer like many of his books.

The book is not an out & out legal thriller which the title seems to suggest.Set in 1970's Mississippi, half way through the book, it drifts into a commentary on elections,racial tension, segregation,parole system, churches and so on... . The ending is a bit predictable & underwhelming.

It's been a couple of years since I read my last Grisham.
Used to love reading the first books he wrote, but there came a moment that I concluded it was all more of the same and I became less interested. This book was still on my shelf and I decided I was ready for some Grisham again. Grisham is a very good storyteller. His stories are almost always entertaining and interesting and it's easy reading too. Ideal for summer holidays. This was a nice book, I liked the story and also the description and character of the Southern surroundings. Grisham has a good pen to describe topics like racial issues, Vietnam, and of course legal scenes. I'm curious about his latest books and will definitely at some point pick up another Grisham again.

Interesting then very boring and heavy and interesting again on the last pages