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Done with Grisham
I'm done with Grisham. I've read all of his books, but his latest ones have severely declined in both imagination and writing quality. Much of the early part of "The Rooster Bar" is simply the author on a soapbox, this time about law school student debt. Character names are cringe-worthy: Hadley Caviness, Wilson Featherstone, Chap Gronski. Female characters are always described by where their skirt falls on their thigh, and they serve no dramatic purpose. Cops do nothing but "snarl," and at one point they do it three times on a single page. Does Mr. Grisham no longer have an editor? Or a thesaurus? I found the main characters so annoying that I was actively rooting for them to fail. But of course, as in every other Grisham novel, they somehow manage to transfer millions of dollars to an offshore bank and live out the rest of their lives in a secluded tropical paradise. If Grisham won't take more time and care in writing his novels, I'm not going to waste my time reading them.
December 2017 · Kindle Store · verified purchase