Author: John Grisham

Okay, Mr. Grisham, we need to talk. I haven’t read you in twenty years and it was brought to my attention I need to read your latest. Let’s get the obvious out of the way: you’re still writing the same book, just packaged differently.

However, that’s not a bad thing.

Not a bad thing at all because your writing is on an entirely new level. If your name wasn’t on the cover of this one, I wouldn’t have guessed it was you. There’s still your fingerprints all over it, but you’ve turned them into style points for others to emulate.

As for the book itself, it’s a story and information lecture all in one. While many might gripe at this proselytizing, it provides excellent background for those of us who do not understand the issues. Coming from a Theology background, I always appreciate when someone wants to tell me what Religion is about based on the media and their feelings. /sarcasm

The pacing in this is kind of strange, but I can’t put my finger on it. It keeps you coming back to find out what kind of trouble the young, inexperienced lawyer facing the giant coal corporations gets herself into, but it never resolves in a way you would expect. You get these nice plot twists, but never a real resolution and you keep going to get that resolution you want.

It’s aggravating, but addictive.

So Grisham, whatever you’re doing, keep going.

I’ll keep pace with you now.