Rating  - Money and Politics: The Ultimate Leverage
When a massive chemicals corporation loses a $41 million lawsuit in rural Mississippi, its top leadership vows to appeal to the state's supreme court. The nine-member court is notorious for upholding plaintiff's lawsuits, punitive damages and all, by a 5-4 split. However, these justices are elected officials--and elections are just around the corner. With deep pockets pitted against near bankruptcy, the race is on to either preserve or restructure the Supreme Court of Mississippi before the appeal can reach the bar.
Grisham has always been a social commentator and critic, but this side of him seems to be asserting itself more aggressively over the past several years. Two books prior to this one, Grisham published his first non-fiction work, a searing indictment of a legal system that too often entombs the innocent on death row. He has also become a high-profile crusader for the Democratic party and its candidates. In "The Appeal," his latest morality play, Grisham's agitation for social and political justice overwhelms the plot at every turn. The characters aren't quite cardboard props, but they're also no more than extras on a stage dominated by Grisham's boisterous diva--his displeasure with the concept of elective supreme courts. Though fascinating as a dramatized lecture on political theory, it winds up being more morality than play.
Rating  - Very Disappointed
I have read several Grisham books and have thoroughly enjoyed the story lines and his particular style of writing. I was excited about the story and was looking forward to the ending. To my dismay, the ending was terrible, the entire story just went "flat" at the end. I am very disappointed, we "all" know that corruption and big money deals are alive and well in our world, I certainly don't want to be reminded of that while trying to enjoy a good novel. I probably won't purchase another Grisham book!
Rating  - Cliche story line, good read
The story is a bit cliche but it is still a great summer read. Part of what I like about the book was that it didnt have the happy ending that you wanted so badly.
Rating - Grisham is done, and so am I
It will be a cold day in some very hot place before I read another Grisham book. This was agonizing just to get through, but I kept plodding on because I knew he was building up to something. Then I remembered that he likes to do that, mislead and give false hope, and then end without a payoff (pun intended).
Actually, if he writes more books like The Innocent Man, I will read them. That one was fantastic. It may require more research, but Grisham needs to migrate more to this genre.
Rating  - High hopes dashed
I won't go into the storyline because it seems every reviewer has already done that. I looked forward to this book thinking that the premise would be full of intrigue and suspense. It had neither. I am a horrible about guessing the direction of a plot but I had this one nailed about 85 pages from the end of the book. Grisham really telegraphed this one!
The end was a complete disappointment - felt like Grisham had a deadline or was just bored with the whole thing. It ended in just a few pages with no explanation at all about what happened to the main characters. It's as if they fell off the earth and were never there. I'm afraid that Grisham reached his peak and is now coasting.
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