John Grisham - The Associate

Pros: some excellent characterization, location and plot descriptions, sequel has to be coming
Cons: the ending, lack of significant closure, detachment for reader

Kyle McAvoy is at Yale Law, editor of the journal, and more typical of the fast track than most.  He plans, at his lawyer father's insistence, on volunteering his services pro bono for a couple of years.  He is being courted by many major law ...

Pros: One of Grisham's better legal thrillers
Cons: The ending leaves more questions than answers

Very early on as I pressed the Kindle page button I sensed this story as something from the pen of Brad Meltzer, say in the manner of The Zero Game. Although it had the traditional Grisham character of Kyle McAvoy, a senior law student at Yale, it also ...

Pros: This is your typical Grisham novel complete with coffee, briefs, deadlines, research and more coffee
Cons: The Associate could have benefitted by having an additional fifty pages...call it Grisham light.

I came to John Grisham many years ago. A woman, who I previously worked with…in another life, raved about his early works (The Firm and Pelican Brief) and I decided to check them out. I was immediately drawn to the exploits of Mitch McDeere in The ...