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Review

Rating: 6

Not one of his better books, maybe because he didn’t resolve the case.
Ok, I understand that he wants to make a point. Big companies and crooked politicians are currently running our courts.. I get it.
The people stupidly fall for the marketing during elections, I don’t doubt it.. I’ve seen it myself.
I really enjoy Grisham’s legal thrillers/dramas. Rainmaker, the Client, the Firm, The King of Torts, etc.
But in most of those books, evil does get punished. You still see that the system is corrupt and corruptable, but at least in this case the poor guy wins the day.
Here, you get to know the clients and community and then the lawyers and judges pretty well. But they’re all too flat. You don’t really get emotionally connected to any of them.
You follow the election as corporate lobbyists and pr firms win the day.. hoping that in the end at least there will be some sort of twist to let us win this one. You actually enjoy the bad guys conniving and scheming more than you do the victims and their plight.
No twist ever comes… the setup was there, with the event that happens near the end of the book that gives the new judge the opportunity he needed, but there is no follow through.
I know that was Grisham’s point, but when I’m reading these kinds of books I guess I keep expecting the under-paid, the downtrodden, and the poor to win out in the end. It sort of helps you go on every now and then when you think you have a chance.
This one let me down.
The author got his point across, but I didn’t get what I was looking for.. the emotional high you usually get from a Grisham novel.