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Title: Grisham's Best? Yes, but.
Review: I'm normally not the type to go for Irving/Grisham/Clancy novels, but stranded in the Raleigh/Durham airport, I decided to venture into new territory. The review blurbs on the book from the NYTimes and others all glowed that this was Grisham's best work ever. It was "atmospheric", "tonal", approaching true "literature". I was sold.I quickly finished the novel and set it down with a sigh of relief--relief that I'd finished the damn thing and relief that I had never subjected myself to other Grisham works. This novel was light on anything of legal interest, lacking in interesting suspense, and of dubious effect when it came to the verisimilutude of the two main protagonists.There was nothing wrong, per se, with the novel; but by the end I was completely unmoved. For those who say that this novel is great despite lacking in legal suspense, fine; but if you want a good literary narrative than go read a real novel.
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