The Associate

The book takes an age to get going and then plods along at a very slow pace. One gets the impression that Grisham doesn't really know where to take the plot, which amounts to very little in the first place as it is. It certainly could do with a lot of editing.

There are a number of loose ends left, too, at the conclusion when the book tails off disappointingly.

While he remains a very good teller of a story, I get the impression from this book that Grisham has really run out of steam.

It's very well read, anyway!

Sadly this one for me was too much about the law and not enough story. I need a book I can drop and pick back up. With this I was rewinding continuously to make sense of it. Boo hoo!

I kept waiting for the good bit. I have now finished it and am still waiting..... What happened? The narration was very 'stilted' and the story just wasn't much of a story. Very disappointing.

This book completely defines the phrase anti climax. pointless.

I was very disappointed with this story. Grisham builds a good plot with the main character finding himself in a seemingly inescapable situation (as usual) but then he seems to have no idea how to finish the story. The outcome is a huge anti-climax leaving loads of unanswered questions. This book lacks all the tension, suspense and action of other Grisham titles and is far off the standard I've grown to expect. I also agree with the other reviewers, the reader is poor especially when voicing the characters.

This is not one of Grisham's best books, and I did not think the reader was very good. He was very slow and as the book is a bit slow anyway, I found it a bit of a snooze. There are better Grisham books with better readers out there.