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Summary: Light Entertainment, About What Your Might Expect
Review: Unlike the majority of the reviewers, it would seem, I have always expected light entertainment from Grisham, not Nobel Prize literature. Keeping those expectations in mind, I thought "The Summons" was a relatively engaging novel, with and interesting premise and a enough suspense to keep interest. Get it on sale, wait for the paperback, borrow if from a friend or at the library and spend a few hours with this modest mystery.
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Summary: Grisham Deserves a Summons for a Poor Book
Review: As always, Grisham's books are an easy read. However, this time, THE SUMMONS has a limited plot, a predictable guilty party, and an ending that is anything but that.Save your time. Save your money. Do not read the book. Do not buy the book.
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Summary: One of the Year's...
Review: Transparent characters, one-line sarcastic dialogue (in place of conversation), and a thin plot makes you wonder if Grisham wrote this on his lunch hour. Certainly not one of his more intriguing works (anyone who couldn't figure out the villian in the first 30 pages?). Without a doubt, one of the year's WORST!
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Summary: Worst Grisham work so far
Review: My cousin recently wrote and published a book that I read. My comment to him was that the main character was in every chapter so the book was very one dimensional. Obviously this would not occur in a best seller. Well, I was wrong again. Grisham should be ashamed of himself and the publisher should also be ashamed. This book was awful! By the way, could we use a larger font next time so the book has 400 pages?
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Summary: Long and Repetitive
Review: Hi ,I like Grisham ,but this last novel,to long and to repetitive. You cuold forsee the end,no courtroom action,not enough suspense. It starts well but the carring of the money to so diferent places very "Boring". I hope the next Novel take us back where we enjoy reading it.
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Summary: Deeper meaning?
Review: Love it when the tables are turned. Clues were very limited on who was the "stalker", but with a the limited field, "Bro" was a good bet. Heavy addiction was a good cover. Not like most reviews, I found the ending thought provoking.
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Summary: Hes Lost It!
Review: Whatever John Grisham once had he has showed us after two non-law book that he has completely lost it. This book drug on with absolutely no drive. Every Grisham book starts slow but you always know it will pick up and usually it does, I was at the middle of the book still waiting for the book to pick up and drive us to an interesting mysetery and wonderful suspense when i realized it was going nowhere. the middle of the book and i was still waiting! the ending was that amputated that's it kinda ending which leaves you feeling used as if it was written by the writers of a bad soap opera who can't figure out how to end a story line so they decide the character was knocked out and had dreamed the entire thing. I do not recommend this book to Grisham Fans, skip it if you want to remain a fan and possibly pick up a James Patterson book as for now Grisham has lost a fan with this poorly written book.
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Summary: I have had it with Grisham!
Review: I kept buying and reading Grisham novels longing to find the pace, wit and twists of his earlier works...to no avail. This was definitely the last one. A novel without convincing characters, in the same stale surroundings with no real plot and what's got to be the worst ending in the history of suspense genre is hardly bestseller quality. He's banking on old glories, which is fine by me, but count me out! This is it! No more Grisham, ever!
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Summary: Real Grisham Fans only
Review: I have read about everything John Grisham has written and this to me was disappointing. The premise was interesting and there were some suspenseful parts. The character development was probably the best part as you did feel that you knew someone just like the characters, especially the family and close friends. The conclusion was empty for me. Didn't feel like closure. If you like narrative around locations and characters or are a Grisham fan, it will not be an empty read but certainly didn't meet expectations.
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Summary: A Patent Excuse for a Sequel
Review: Where did the real John Grisham go? The one who wrote A Time to Kill and some of the other good books that followed. In The Summons, two brothers, one good and one bad, (of course) are "summoned" home to Mississippi at the request of their father who is a great judge and terrific philanthropist but (guess what) a really lousy father. The good brother, Ray Atlee, arrives to find his father dead with his body in front of several barely hidden boxes containing three million dollars. This could have been a suspensful story as Ray quickly hides (again) before the bad brother gets home in order to "save him" from the problems the money would cause him. Ray runs around with the money in his car throughout the rest of the book all the while getting mysterious notes. At the end of the book there is a mild surprise that doesn't really work because it only serves to set the reader up for a sequel....after the bad brother gets out of rehab we will get the rest of the story.... The Good Summons got 2 stars because I did read it through to the end having continued to hope that it would somehow get better. It did not.
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