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3.69 AVERAGE
3.69 AVERAGE
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Better than Hard Evidence (the last Dismas Hardy book I read), but still suffers from the same bloat. Could've been about 200 pages shorter. Would've liked to see more in court drama. I enjoyed the discussion around the theme of assisted suicide, but again, it dragged on. I'm hoping the books continue to improve.
I think I read this one before, but the writing flowed and the plot twists kept me going to the end. Less about Diz/Abe/Frannie than about SF/baseball/fishing. And murder trials.
The author has a habit of taking up too much time on useless threads. Overall enjoyable and good courtroom drama
I've read this book before, but it's been years. Long enough that I could not remember the plot or the bod guy. Great book as all of the Dismas Hardy books are....also just a little long...as all the Dismas Hardy books are. You really do have to read them in order and everyone matures, but a very good series that I haven't kept up with and need to re-read before I start catching up.
This was a long one, but almost up to the end I wasn't sure who had 'done it'.
Another winner by Lescroart. Not quite as happy an ending as some of the previous ones I've read, but it all seemed to turn out OK in the end. A bit of a surprise at the end, which seems common for his books.
I think I'd better mark this one done as "abandoned", I just can't get into the story at all. I like the premise, I just don't find myself wanting to read this book.
Back in the 1980s, John Hughes, fresh off the success of The Breakfast Club, made Pretty In Pink, another popular high school comedy/drama. It had one major problem, however: the test audiences hated the ending. So the studio forced him to change it. Undeterred, Hughes turned straight around and made essentially the same movie again the next year (Some Kind of Wonderful), except this time with the ending he'd originally wanted for Pretty in Pink.
Having read [b:The 13th Juror|341587|The 13th Juror (Dismas Hardy, #4)|John Lescroart|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1389785624s/341587.jpg|82560] just last week, I kept finding myself wondering if something similar had happened to Lescroart too, as The Mercy Rule is pretty much entirely the same book, except with some different legal argumentsand outcomes.
Lawyer: just admit you did it, and explain why, and nothing will happen to you. After all this is San Francisco. They're more likely to give you a medal than put you in prison.
Client: But I didn't do it!
Everyone: Oh yes you did!
Client: Oh no I didn't!
Lawyer: It's really obvious that you're guilty. Just let me explain why you did it, and I guarantee you'll be free.
Client: No, no, no. I don't care what happens — I can't say I did something that I didn't.
Big Court Battle happens.
Big Court Battle ends and judgment is delivered.
Time passes.
Oh, hey. Turns out someone else did do it after all.
I have to think that the author is simply trying to say "Here's the version of the book I really wanted to write last time, but couldn't", otherwise it just seems like very lazy writing.
Having read [b:The 13th Juror|341587|The 13th Juror (Dismas Hardy, #4)|John Lescroart|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1389785624s/341587.jpg|82560] just last week, I kept finding myself wondering if something similar had happened to Lescroart too, as The Mercy Rule is pretty much entirely the same book, except with some different legal arguments
Lawyer: just admit you did it, and explain why, and nothing will happen to you. After all this is San Francisco. They're more likely to give you a medal than put you in prison.
Client: But I didn't do it!
Everyone: Oh yes you did!
Client: Oh no I didn't!
Lawyer: It's really obvious that you're guilty. Just let me explain why you did it, and I guarantee you'll be free.
Client: No, no, no. I don't care what happens — I can't say I did something that I didn't.
Big Court Battle happens.
Big Court Battle ends and judgment is delivered.
Time passes.
Oh, hey. Turns out someone else did do it after all.
I have to think that the author is simply trying to say "Here's the version of the book I really wanted to write last time, but couldn't", otherwise it just seems like very lazy writing.