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adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advance reader copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
Mitch and Abby McDeere are back in a kind-of sequel to The Firm. It's about 13 years later and Mitch is a lawyer again, in a big NYC firm. To call this an actual sequel is a disgrace to The Firm and all that was good about Grisham's writing in the early years. Tom Cruise can't save this. Mitch and Abby have become entitled snobby elitest leftist liberals. If Abby sneers and is fed up once she's that a hundred times. Mitch provides a travel log of places to see and things to do, all on a private company jet. He's a partner in only a decade? And the plot...who remembers Muammar Gaddafi & Libya (besides me)? The kidnapped by a terrorist plot in 2005 is just not relevant to most readers in 2023. And it's boring. Not enough action and how the kidnapped woman got along. It took me a long time to finish, I picked it up and put it down a lot. I cannot recommend this to any John Grisham fan, it's disappointing.
#Netgalley #Doubleday #TheExchange #JohnGrisham #TheFirm
Mitch and Abby McDeere are back in a kind-of sequel to The Firm. It's about 13 years later and Mitch is a lawyer again, in a big NYC firm. To call this an actual sequel is a disgrace to The Firm and all that was good about Grisham's writing in the early years. Tom Cruise can't save this. Mitch and Abby have become entitled snobby elitest leftist liberals. If Abby sneers and is fed up once she's that a hundred times. Mitch provides a travel log of places to see and things to do, all on a private company jet. He's a partner in only a decade? And the plot...who remembers Muammar Gaddafi & Libya (besides me)? The kidnapped by a terrorist plot in 2005 is just not relevant to most readers in 2023. And it's boring. Not enough action and how the kidnapped woman got along. It took me a long time to finish, I picked it up and put it down a lot. I cannot recommend this to any John Grisham fan, it's disappointing.
#Netgalley #Doubleday #TheExchange #JohnGrisham #TheFirm
adventurous
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I was really disappointed in this sequel to The Firm, for two reasons.
I found Grisham to be too wordy - Mitch's thoughts about various events in his past went on far too long. The plot was good, even though totally unbelievable. That's the first problem.
The second problem - his use of the word "transvestites" for dancers at a festival. Shame, shame, shame on him, his editors, and his publisher for allowing that. Those dancers may have been drag queens, cross dressers, or transgender women. And someone at some point in the process should have known that this particular word is pejorative and a no go in this day and age.
The story itself was fun, though.
I found Grisham to be too wordy - Mitch's thoughts about various events in his past went on far too long. The plot was good, even though totally unbelievable. That's the first problem.
The second problem - his use of the word "transvestites" for dancers at a festival. Shame, shame, shame on him, his editors, and his publisher for allowing that. Those dancers may have been drag queens, cross dressers, or transgender women. And someone at some point in the process should have known that this particular word is pejorative and a no go in this day and age.
The story itself was fun, though.