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mckenzie22 's review for:
The Scandal
by John Grisham
To finish out the Theodore Boone series, I chose this for my April 2018 Book of the Month. I've gone back and forth on these books in terms of stars, and I settled on four for this one just because it seemed a little random, and also a little unrealistic. I take standardized tests every year, and at least for the ones that you take on paper and fill in the bubbles, I don't think it would even be possible for teachers to change our scores. First, they are never provided an answer key, so there isn't a way to change them to the right answers, and second, the tests are given to the main office after we're finished taking them. April was also sort of annoying in this book- I can understand that she felt guilty about the letter, but, as Theo tried to remind her time and time again, an investigation was already pending and the teachers had done something wrong. And was she skipping school and thinking about running away those couple days because she just felt bad? Or did she think she was going to be caught and be in trouble? The reasoning that she would have been caught is ludicrous- she signed the letter anonymously and no one was even looking for the writer of the letter. But to continue, I still very much enjoyed this book. I've liked everything I've read by John Grisham a lot, and it has gotten me into the law a little bit more. I had a question, though, and was wondering if anyone else noticed- the first two times, and in April's initial letter that she writes, one of the teachers is called Ms. Kovak. For the rest of the book, however, she's referred to as Ms. Novak. I feel like this would be something the editors should have caught, but oh well. Still felt like this book was 3.5- 4 star quality.