A review by jadesara15
The Guardians by John Grisham

2.0

While I liked the premise (I’m passionate about the downfalls of our justice system), the ending and about the last 100 pages, I felt like this book fell short. I am not a legal thriller expert by any means, in fact this may be the first one I have read, but I didn’t find the plot or pacing compelling. It may have been the present tense, but the writing felt dry and showed a lot more than it told. Most of the action was revealed in dialogue or narration and not scene. And the narration offered little in the way of insight or eduction.
The characters also felt flat and I can count what I know about Cullen Post on one hand. I didn’t feel for Quincy or Frankie or literally anyone in the novel. I will quickly forget them.
I wonder if maybe this would’ve been better as piece of non-fiction...