But there’s not much here to recommend it, even if you liked Camino Island. You’ll read it if you’re a Grisham completionist like I am. I wouldn’t exactly call this one of Grisham’s cause novels-like The Appeal or Gray Mountain, where you can tell that he had a specific cause he wanted to push and then framed a plot around it-but it’s close. And in the second half of the book, the reader learns the completely unsatisfying, completely pointless and far-fetched reason why Nelson was murdered. Much of the first third involves reintroducing the reader to fun characters from Camino Island only to have them leave the island never to return for the remainder of the tale. And, as with nearly every Grisham novel, the story moves effortlessly.īut this is an odd, rather silly book. On the positive side, Bruce Cable of Bay Books and Camino Island is back, still as charming and entertaining as ever. You’re thinking somebody came over here, in the middle of a Category 4 hurricane, caught Nelson in the den, whacked him in the head, dragged his body outside, tried to clean up the blood, and then ran off? Seriously? But, don’t be surprised if you are looking for the missing pages like I was. let me know if you read this one and felt the same way – it just stood out so much that it was shocking! I was speechless! I checked to see if some part of the copy I had was missing!Ī decent book if you like the Grisham formula.
This happened to me last year with another book (Gwendy’s Magic Feather) and I was much harsher on that one – mainly because I don’t think the rush job led to a bad ending like it did with that one. I felt a bit cheated to have everything I have been getting into resolved with some Clif Notes. Then, I guess he got a call from his publisher saying the book was due because suddenly it was several weeks later and everything that had been built up was summarized in a few pages and it moved on to the end game of the novel. Grisham spent a couple hundred pages developing this intricate mystery and setting up all the situations and characters with a precarious heightened intensity. The rush job: This was the odd part for me that kind of soured the whole experience. Maybe not really a con, but it just stands out as filler (and makes me hungry and thirsty) I think the book would be about one fourth shorter if the food a drink mentions were removed. Grisham and food: I have said in previous reviews that one of the biggest things I have always noticed with Grisham from the very first time I read him, he has to give detailed accounts of all the food and drinks consumed by his characters. Most of them are quirky writer types with interesting backgrounds. Fun characters: I like all the people we meet on Camino Island. Unique and intriguing plot/mystery: A mysterious death during a hurricane? Yes, please!
But, something odd happened about 2/3 of the way through it. it has the typical feel of a John Grisham novel, and I thought at first it might come in highly for me.
Source: Goodreads.I am in the middle of the road on this one. Pull up a stool, grab a cold one, and get ready to spend some time at The Rooster Bar. And leaving law school a few short months before graduation would be completely crazy, right? Well, yes and no. But to do so, they would first have to quit school. Maybe there's a way to escape their crushing debt, expose the bank and the scam, and make a few bucks in the process. And when they learn that their school is one of a chain owned by a shady New York hedge-fund operator who also happens to own a bank specializing in student loans, the three know they have been caught up in The Great Law School Scam. They all borrowed heavily to attend a third-tier for-profit law school so mediocre that its graduates rarely pass the bar exam, let alone get good jobs. But now, as third-year students, these close friends realize they have been duped. Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law school to change the world, to make it a better place.
Not x-library, unclipped, ink notation on ffep. Spine slanted, binding tight, pages clean and bright.
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