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A review by lmkramer507
The Ophelia Cut by John Lescroart
4.0
I've read many Lescroart courtroom/crime novels over the years, and while this was the first real page-turner I'd picked up in a while, it was nonetheless not as good overall as some of his previous books.
One of the plotlines was quite contrived--the outsider who is met by accident and suddenly comes into all aspects of the lives of the main characters.
The ending and epilogue were perhaps most disappointing. There was no prior hint to the final event in the book, so it seemed out of place; the ends were tied up too neatly and quickly. And the epilogue didn't fit at all, unless there's a plan in the works to take off on a new series of books and a setup was needed for that. There are other questions that actually dealt with the meat of the book that I would have preferred to have wrapped up in the epilogue.
Still, a good read. If you like Grisham, you should like Lescroart, and though you don't need to read the books in the order they were published, it is helpful since the characters and events do progress from book to book.
Four stars; solid read, but not perfect.
One of the plotlines was quite contrived--the outsider who is met by accident and suddenly comes into all aspects of the lives of the main characters.
The ending and epilogue were perhaps most disappointing. There was no prior hint to the final event in the book, so it seemed out of place; the ends were tied up too neatly and quickly. And the epilogue didn't fit at all, unless there's a plan in the works to take off on a new series of books and a setup was needed for that. There are other questions that actually dealt with the meat of the book that I would have preferred to have wrapped up in the epilogue.
Still, a good read. If you like Grisham, you should like Lescroart, and though you don't need to read the books in the order they were published, it is helpful since the characters and events do progress from book to book.
Four stars; solid read, but not perfect.