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setmeravelles 's review for:
The Exchange
by John Grisham
The Exchange by John Grisham would have been a better read had he not placed the characters from The Firm into it. It seems he most likely had the idea for the basic plot but his publisher was like "Why don't you shoehorn the McDeeres so we can market it as a sequel to The Firm as sales aren't what they were in the 1990s!"
I've been a fan of Grisham since I was 12 and I read The Client, so that's 30 years of history here. I've read every single one of his books. And this is not one of his better ones because it isn't a sequel to The Firm, despite being marketing as one. The use of Mitch McDeere makes no sense...it could have been basically any one of his characters and made more sense (since so many of his lawyers are interchangeable.)
Basically, I just don't buy that the McDeere's would be living in the Upper East Side and that he'd be working for the world's largest law firm after he had to flee the US because he was wanted by both the Mafia and FBI...
I was so wanting a book where he and Abby had settled down in the Italian village and...he's found. That would have made narrative sense. Also...they could have dealt with the fall out of things that happened in The Firm.
Instead, this was if James Patterson's ghost writer du jour wrote a Bourne Identity book.
I've been a fan of Grisham since I was 12 and I read The Client, so that's 30 years of history here. I've read every single one of his books. And this is not one of his better ones because it isn't a sequel to The Firm, despite being marketing as one. The use of Mitch McDeere makes no sense...it could have been basically any one of his characters and made more sense (since so many of his lawyers are interchangeable.)
Basically, I just don't buy that the McDeere's would be living in the Upper East Side and that he'd be working for the world's largest law firm after he had to flee the US because he was wanted by both the Mafia and FBI...
I was so wanting a book where he and Abby had settled down in the Italian village and...he's found. That would have made narrative sense. Also...they could have dealt with the fall out of things that happened in The Firm.
Instead, this was if James Patterson's ghost writer du jour wrote a Bourne Identity book.