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Title: Not one for the time capsule.
Review: On the positive side, this was a compelling read - suspenseful, with interesting characters and decent plot development. Sadly, it ultimately disappoints. The main character's journey into greed and arrogance would seem to lead the reader toward something either meaningful, catastrophic, or in-your-face-greed-is-good cynical. Maybe it tries to do all three, but sadly, it succeeds at none. The almost inadvertant climax leads into an unsatisfying, incomplete, unresolved, weak ending with the reader (or at least this reader) feeling, "So, what was the point of this again?" Grisham seems to have been drifting toward this type of unresolved ending, with no clear resolution. "The Summons" ended with a similar lack of resolution, but worked better.With "King", Grisham just left me wanting. Not more, but something else.
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