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The Testament |
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Rating: Summary: Another Great by Grisham Review: I just finished reading this book and I have to say it kept me on my feet. I enjoyed reading this book though before I even started the book I thought it wasn't going to be that great but since it was a Grisham book I gave it a chance and I am very happy that I did. It was adventurous it went from the courtroom to a search in Brazil. I recommend this book.
Rating: Summary: Good story with exotic setting Review: I recently started reading John Grisham again, and I'm enjoying his novels. This one combines an interesting plot about a billionaire's will with the exotic setting of Brazil's Pantanal region. Like all of Grisham's books, it reads fast and the characters are flawed but endearing.
Rating: Summary: The best Grisham book Review: The Testament, in my mind, is by far the best book that John Grisham has written. Vivid mental pictures of adventures to other places and people groups. Great for traveling or just sitting at home. Great read.
Rating: Summary: Another great lawyer novel from the master Review: Troy Phelan, womanising billionaire, commits suicide leaving his fortune to an unknown daughter, Rachel. She is hiding from life in the Pantanal wilderness area of Brazil and wants the money even less than she wants to be found. Meanwhile, Phelan's other, more or less legitimate, children are joined together in a wild legal battle for their late father's fortune. Phelan's long-time lawyer wants nothing more than to honour his client's wishes and sends Nate O'Riley to find Rachel and bring back her signature so that he can defend Phelan's testament.
A fast paced novel that leads to an almost perfect conclusion. I was a tad disappointed with the ending but wouldn't change it. This novel also provides early evidence of Grisham's growing softer side evidenced by Skipping Christmas and Bleachers.
Rating: Summary: Mystery, Religion, Guilt and a Crazy Family. Review: Definitely not my favorite Grisham book, but it is still an enjoyable read. The colorful details of the family members combined with the adventure of Brazil provided an intriguing novel. The ending however was somewhat troubling for me. There seemed to be no solid resolution that came from this twisted tale of woe. I almost wanted a sequel so that I would know what happened to the rest of the characters.
Rating: Summary: A Sermon, Not a Novel...I was Tricked & I'm Not Happy Review: Don't be fooled. This is not story-telling; it is proselytizing. The Testament begins like any other Grisham novel. The protagonist is a lonely lawyer, alientated from his family, with few friends, cynical, middle-aged, and struggling with addictions to (mostly) alcohol and some drugs. Halfway through the novel, the author gets tricky . Once you're thoroughly interested and 'hooked' on finding out whether Rebecca Lane, the sole heiress of 11 billion dollars, will accept her fortune, or whether her greedy 'evil' half-siblings will be successful through their legal maneuvers, Grisham begins to ease in pietistic innuendos...a comment here, a little preaching there, and pretty soon you realize that you are not reading a fiction novel anymore. Instead, you find yourself perusing through a religious tract. Indeed, the entire 2nd half of the novel is devoted to convincing the reader that he or she needs to ask God for forgiveness (I could almost see the author shaking his finger at me). I was really disappointed with this book, and not at all 'pleasantly surprised' with the spiritual aspects (preachy, preachy, preachy) as were other reviewers.
Rating: Summary: Happiness in the Brazilian Jungles Review: In many ways The Testament adheres to a standard formula. There is the billionaire who, while focused exclusively on his business dealings, has gone through many wives and countless mistresses, and (surprise, surprise) has produced greedy, self-centered kids with no redeeming qualities. At the end of his life, he is fed up with them and literally casts them aside in his last will and testament. Of course, that invites a huge legal furor on the part of the children with all of the predictable backstabbing among themselves and their lawyers. And the typical out-of-the-mainstream Grisham lawyer encounters all of the expected difficulties, weather, logistics, injury, disease, etc, in tracking down the heretofore-unknown main beneficiary in the Brazilian jungles.
Despite the formulistic aspects of the book, the trials and tribulations of Nate O'Riley, the dispatched lawyer, both past and present, make for an interesting story. Perhaps the reader could wish for a greater role for the missing heiress; her story is inspiring and maybe a little puzzling. All in all, a good Grisham effort.
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