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Title: Terrible book, poor editing
Review: This feels like Grisham's attempt to write Southern literature, rather than suspense fiction. The entire book feels like a feeble attempt to imitate Harper Lee. Don't let the book jacket fool you, a full 1/3 of the book cover stuff that isn't related to the trial at all.The editing is also poor. Once he used the same exact descriptive sentence in two different places in the novel. In another, he describes a young man wants to be a draft dodger but is convinced to go to Vietnam by his parents. Less than 10 pages later Grisham writes that the parents begged their son not to go.The entire plot is a let down. There is no suspense, the "surprise ending" meager and predictable, and Grisham wastes half the novel writing about utter non-sense that is not related to the story and is not charming.
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