Has John Grisham gone off the boil? (The Brethren - John Grisham)

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Product:	The Brethren - John Grisham
Date:	25.05.01 (62 review reads)
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Advantages: Not too long, Grisham

Disadvantages: That ending!

Didn't John Grisham used to write cracking thrillers that you couldn't put down?

The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client, The Rainmanker, The Runaway Jury (my favourite) to mention a few.

His last book, The Testament, was nothing short of just a novel sized advertisment for Christianity. I'm not anti-chrisitan, I'm just against novelists who thinly veil an agenda under the guise of a thriller.

Which brings me on to The Brethren, which when I started reading it, made me a little worried as it seems somewhat homophobic, but I persevered.

The character developement is good, but everything that Grisham builds up is just completely obliterated with the most quickly contrived ending of all his work. It is almost as though he got bored and had already thought of the beginning to his next book and just could not be bothered to finish this one properly.

I have already purchased his new book and I will always give the benefit of the doubt, but the time may come when I might have to say "I couldn't put it down, mainly because I never picked it up."

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