Title: Plenty of page-turuning exposition, a bit thin on characterization
Product review: Like most people who have reviewed this book, I picked it up having read a few of Grisham's legal novels and knowing that this author can really spin a good yarn. To his credit you do want to keep turning the pages for this one, and there are plenty of secrets that this book only unlocks towards the end.The biggest let-down for me was the way that you don't get to feel like you know any of the characters. There are plenty of them running through these pages, but they are all so one-dimensional that it's hard to believe any of their motivations. The book develops a of sentimentality that gets really hard to bear towards the end.It only takes about two hours to read, but honestly now that I've read it I wish I had spent those two hours readings something else- even a Grisham legal thriller would have been more rewarding!
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