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Summary: A page turner
Review: This is one of the best books I have ever read. It was hard to put the book down from the first to the last page. If you like John Grisham and romance novels, this book is perfect. A complete thriller.
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Summary: Great "Can't put down" book!
Review: This was an awesome book! It just kept getting better and better and I stayed up til 3am just to finish it. The end of the book was just fantastic. I felt like I was watching a movie, the details were so descriptive. I loaned ( I say loan because I will want to read it again some day) the book to some of my friends and they loved it as much as I did. A Must Read!!
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Summary: Good Followup to "The Tenth Justice"
Review: Although I didn't like this book as much as "Tenth Justice", it still is a good read with a fine story. Meltzer's books read like movie scripts. It would be east to adapt his writing to screenplay. In fact, his future may be in screenwriting.
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Summary: A very good book
Review: Brad Meltzer's Dead Even is a great book by many standards. The plot is suspenseful, and the law know-how is very interesting. The characters are realistic with different foibles, personalities, and ethics. I loved this book a lot and I can safely say I could not put it down most of the way. The complex story is very fascinating, and as a writer myself, I appreciate the cerebration something like that might require. However, I was not too satisfied with the ending. It is too gory for my taste. I would have preferred steaming courtroom disputes and heated trials, and a legal clincher to end the story. That is what the story lacked. Nevertheless, the book is well worth reading.
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Summary: evenly dead
Review: over 500 pages of piffle. plot driven formula fiction. suspense is manufactured with devices that are contrived, implausible and mechanical.a sophomore jinx for the author.
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Summary: Too many coincidences
Review: A very well written book. A fast-placed plot, but too many coincidences happen after one another, that make you lose track of the plot. But besides that, I could not wait to get till the end of the book.
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Summary: Could not put down
Review: This book to for better or for worse to another level. Dead Even had a very clever storyline. I was interesting how the wife found her confidence in her abilities as a lawyer, and the way they were turned against each other.
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Summary: A clever, suspenseful roller coaster
Review: I'm not an attorney, but my brother is and my cousin is. I can see all the events in this book happening. Ignore the reviews that said attorneys would be aware of the ethics violations. Of course they would. But given the right circumstances, they'd do them.This novel delivers better horror scenes than most horror-genre books. The mystery plot unfolds at just the right pace. Characterization is excellent. Voice is usually good, though a few conversations were confusing -- usually because I wasn't paying enough attention to the speech tags. Description is sparse but enough is there to carry the story. Above all, the story grips you and doesn't let you go all the way through the book. I can see a reader reading this through and disliking it. What I can't see is anybody putting it down once they've started it. The story demands that you finish it. That's good writing.
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Summary: Dead Even
Review: I read Dead Even in a couple days, and while it provides an interesting read, it could have definately been better. It has great dialogue, but the story line is pretty unrealistic. It's no Grisham novel, but I don't think that's what Meltzer was going for. The plot twists definately held you on and made you read the whole thing, however the ending is very shoddy. The book could also do without most of the swearing in the dialouge. The characters were well developed, and pick this book up for a quick read but don't expect the best.
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Summary: Completely unrealistic
Review: First, the positive comments. The book is a quick read, and the plot twists kept me very interested in this book. On the negative side, comparing this to Grisham (as the teasers do) is laughable. It's simply not that quality. Second, as a law school graduate, it is incomprehensible that these characters wouldn't have known basic ethical and legal issues which the characters failed to recognize, which any first year law student knows. That made the book highly unrealistic to me, and painful to read.
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