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A review by htruck
Camino Ghosts by John Grisham
2.0
I've thoroughly enjoyed this series up until now. It's light, and a great summer read, typically. When I picked up this, what is technically book 3, I thought I was was just completely put off by the graphic historical discourse on slavery, when I was expecting a light summer read. I love historical fiction. I love non fiction. I love light summer reads. I do not care to have them mixed into one book.
I had started out with the audio book version of this, and it took me awhile to realize it was not just that I had been unprepared for the tone and subject - I really strongly disliked the narrator. So I walked away for awhile, returned the audiobook, and tried the ebook instead.
That was a little better. But still, I could not settle the nonfiction with the fiction, in a book I expected to be a light summer read. It wasn't, on it's own, any of those three and yet it was also a mix of all three. It didn't work for me, not at all. It felt like I was reading a documentary. I would have much preferred a non fiction version of this story, and preferably one that didn't recite the numbers of books fictional characters sold, on every other page.
It's a shame. I feel like there's probably an amazing true story here, but this fictionalized version only leaves me somewhat bored and confused.
I had started out with the audio book version of this, and it took me awhile to realize it was not just that I had been unprepared for the tone and subject - I really strongly disliked the narrator. So I walked away for awhile, returned the audiobook, and tried the ebook instead.
That was a little better. But still, I could not settle the nonfiction with the fiction, in a book I expected to be a light summer read. It wasn't, on it's own, any of those three and yet it was also a mix of all three. It didn't work for me, not at all. It felt like I was reading a documentary. I would have much preferred a non fiction version of this story, and preferably one that didn't recite the numbers of books fictional characters sold, on every other page.
It's a shame. I feel like there's probably an amazing true story here, but this fictionalized version only leaves me somewhat bored and confused.