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lannainthelibrary 's review for:
El Secreto de Gray Mountain
by John Grisham
A down-on-her luck, but brilliant lawyer, a nefarious cabal of coal mining companies, a tight knit Applachia community with more than its share of secrets...this was a book I was prepared to love. Unfortunately I never really felt like it lived up to its potential.
The descriptions of the environmental and social impacts of coal on mining communities was vivid and insightful, detailing the irreparable damages the landscape and workers’ health as a result of strip mining.
I didn’t feel like the protagonist’ character was well developed and the book was fairly anti climatic by the end. Grisham did a wonderful job of building this story up in the first half of the book, but after what was, for me at least, a shocking twist, the story never quite seemed to pick back up.
All in all, I do think that it was a good read, giving great insight into the mining industry and the inner dynamics of the communities that surround them. But if you’re looking for Grisham’s usually masterful plot construction, you might look elsewhere.
The descriptions of the environmental and social impacts of coal on mining communities was vivid and insightful, detailing the irreparable damages the landscape and workers’ health as a result of strip mining.
I didn’t feel like the protagonist’ character was well developed and the book was fairly anti climatic by the end. Grisham did a wonderful job of building this story up in the first half of the book, but after what was, for me at least, a shocking twist, the story never quite seemed to pick back up.
All in all, I do think that it was a good read, giving great insight into the mining industry and the inner dynamics of the communities that surround them. But if you’re looking for Grisham’s usually masterful plot construction, you might look elsewhere.