Yikes - Has John Grisham lost his touch?? Gray Mountain.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

I have read 30 out of 33 John Grisham books and I loved every one of them until now. I am almost finished with his latest Gray Mountain.

Is anyone else reading it?

I just have to say - it is the worst of his books by a mile. I wonder if he has lost his
touch? Typically, I can't put his books down - this one, I almost have to
force myself to finish.

Grisham always tends to make his protagonists "too good" to me. No grey - just black and white, good and bad. But, he goes so far off the scale in this book - the lead character, a young female
attorney, is totally unlikable. I don't even care what bad things might happen to her - which is a very bad thing for an author to do. He evokes zero empathy.

The good part of the book is that it will incense you about strip mining coal and make you wonder how real the horror of raping the land truly is and how much the coal companies run rampant.

My favorites:
The Confession
A Painted House