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A review by terynce
The Litigators by John Grisham
2.0
I've read a fair amount of Grisham and this was, undoubtably, the weakest of the bunch. The most interesting character was the bartender you meet in the earliest chapters or maybe the blogger you meet in the later ones, but it certainly wasn't any of the litigators.
This read like a bad "Day in the Life" narrative. Sure, not every case that a lawyer sees will be about racketeering, coal mines, or white supremacists, but this was a slog through the mundane. No depth. Rather than being presented as one work, I think this would have worked much better as a collection of vignettes.
Every major plot point (the breakdown, the divorce, the break in, the major cases) could have been worked to stand alone. You can even have a shifting perspective to match the POV of the key character. Without the weight of the entire narrative on them, they hold up much better.
I'll still read Grisham, but this is a miss.
This read like a bad "Day in the Life" narrative. Sure, not every case that a lawyer sees will be about racketeering, coal mines, or white supremacists, but this was a slog through the mundane. No depth. Rather than being presented as one work, I think this would have worked much better as a collection of vignettes.
Every major plot point (the breakdown, the divorce, the break in, the major cases) could have been worked to stand alone. You can even have a shifting perspective to match the POV of the key character. Without the weight of the entire narrative on them, they hold up much better.
I'll still read Grisham, but this is a miss.