A review by davis7198
Gray Mountain by John Grisham

3.0

Finished up Gray Mountain by John Grisham the other day. I have read almost all of his books and for me this was maybe the weakest. It takes so long for the story to progress because half the book is just used setting up the story. When it does get going it was enjoyable but then it ends kind of abruptly. I think my biggest complaint is that almost all of his books are about lawyers working on a singular case and this one has a lawyer that works on smaller cases while talking to someone else that is working on the larger case that you actually care about. The book also feels like it is based purely on making a political statement about the harm of coal mining. Sure coal mining is bad and bad things happen about it, but trying to write a full book about it with nothing really happening with the main character makes for a pretty boring story.