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3.62 AVERAGE
3.62 AVERAGE
Hit the end of Ch.8 and the description of Stern becoming aroused at the sight of the two black women just icked me the hell out. DNF
Not a patch on Presumed Innocent. Stern is an interesting believable character, the resolution of the plot is ridiculous. At 2/3 the length could have been really good . Hard to believe this had an editor.
Oh, goodness. So many words. Too many by 40%. This could have been a tight thrillride at 350 pages. At 550, it was bloated and almost impossible to get through. Wowzers. No more Scott Turow for me.
adventurous
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
I received this as a Christmas present and wrote in my journal from 1997 that, "It's not the kind of book I usually read, but it was pretty good. His character development isn't bad, and he's really good at complex plotting."
Entirely too long and laggy in the beginning, I also heavily cringed throughout and when his pregnant DAUGHTER's nipples rubbed up against him. GTFO
Might be the medium that this book was delivered to me (I listened to the very long audiobook), but it never grabbed me or intrigued me. Might be that legal thrillers just aren't for me. I should have stopped reading, another lesson in the sunk cost fallacy. The 90 to 95% part of this book was fine. The rest was forgettable - dull (I generally keep reading a book I find dull that also has a good rating on Goodreads, but this one never got exciting), ridiculous (this chubby guy is sleeping with all of these women? not even a month after his wife's suicide? and I'm supposed to like this character??), long (way too long). Probably my last one in this series unfortunately.