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Lazy, lazy, lazy.
If this book was a shape, it would be round, because Grisham cut all the corners in writing this story.
He doesn't play anything out, just tells us. He says, for example, that the lawyer tore the witness apart! But he doesn't show us how he did it, what he said, etc. He just tosses it out there: this happened. And then this other thing happened.
Also, it's 2019, I would remiss if I didn't point out how razor thin the female characters are. They usually are, in Grisham books, but this time it's pretty flagrant. They are not fleshed out in the least, they are caricatures of stereotypes.
This book left me with a distinct taste that the author was not only on auto-pilot, fulfilling contractual obligations, he was probably asleep when he wrote it.
Having said that, the first half of the book moves swiftly. It's entertaining, in a straightforward kind of way. It could have been good, but it goes nowhere, it's extremely predictable and ends quite abruptly.
If this book was a shape, it would be round, because Grisham cut all the corners in writing this story.
He doesn't play anything out, just tells us. He says, for example, that the lawyer tore the witness apart! But he doesn't show us how he did it, what he said, etc. He just tosses it out there: this happened. And then this other thing happened.
Also, it's 2019, I would remiss if I didn't point out how razor thin the female characters are. They usually are, in Grisham books, but this time it's pretty flagrant. They are not fleshed out in the least, they are caricatures of stereotypes.
This book left me with a distinct taste that the author was not only on auto-pilot, fulfilling contractual obligations, he was probably asleep when he wrote it.
Having said that, the first half of the book moves swiftly. It's entertaining, in a straightforward kind of way. It could have been good, but it goes nowhere, it's extremely predictable and ends quite abruptly.
