Gripping (The Rainmaker - John Grisham)

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Product:	The Rainmaker - John Grisham
Date:	13.09.00 (57 review reads)
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Advantages: Characters, developed plot, absorbing

Disadvantages: None

Grisham is loved for his legal novel and you can't help to be absorbed with what he writes. The Rainmaker is no exception. It tells the story of a student, fresh out from law school, pitted against one of the biggesy Insurance companies in the US, defending a cancer victim by the name of Donny Ray. David versus Goliath with Grisham as the referee is the best way to describe this book.

As soon as you begin this book you are faced with the Grisham writing style. Somehow he manages to get you gripped within the first few pages, and holds you in till the last. I have yet to read a book of his that hasn't held me throughout.

There is so much to be gleamed from this story is it unbelieveable, as well as the cancer and fraudulent activities there is also the tales of a struggling law graduate, all to common in America, and the book even strays as far as to bring organised crime into it.

Wonderfully shaped characters are yet another reason to love this book. They entrall you as much as the storyline themsleves. The first person perspective give so much more variation than usually found in thrillers.

There are significant twists and turns to keep your interest from fading, but the main storyline never goes too far off track and keeps you totally absorbed. As alwasy with Grisham, the court scenes are the best, and in this novel there is no difference.

I've read this book twice, and it was just as good the second time. Grisham at his best...

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