The Testament - John Grisham Reviews

I've always been a John Grisham fan this has to be one of my all time favourites. I always find this author is able write a very interesting story and keep the reader entertained throughout. His genre is thrillers and he rarely disappoints with whatever he has written that I have read. At the start of this novel the reader is introduced ...  Read the complete review

I think that everyone probably has a number of safe-bet authors. You know the sort I mean? They're the authors where, when you are in a bookshop hurriedly looking for something to read, you can grab their latest offering and know that you are going to be entertained. Well, for a long time, John Grisham was one of mine. Then I read 'Playing for ...  Read the complete review

To continue on the theme of John Grisham books comes the next one I found on my shelf as I work through all the old Books I?ve read. In fact looking at my bookcase there are more books by him in there than any other author, which I suppose really shows the kind of effect The Brethren had on my reading habits. The Testament is another of my ...  Read the complete review

Eighty-year-old Troy Phelan jumps out of his wheelchair, practically runs across the room out onto the terrace and dives from the top floor of his 14 storey building to his death. The sick, sad, lonely self made multi billionaire knew that he wanted to die, knew that his family wouldn't mourn him much and wanted to cause them as much grief as ...  Read the complete review

The Testament is the last John Grisham romance I have read and, even if I liked it, I think it isn’t as good as some others he wrote. In fact during all the story we haven’t the tension that characterize the other Grisham’s book I have red. Moreover in this book the final isn’t strong like in others, like for example The ...  Read the complete review

The Testament is yet another superbly written book by John Grisham. Grisham specialises in writing crime books that involve lawyers, but the testament is yet again different and refreshing. Here is the basic storyline: Troy Phelan is a self-made billionaire, who has made his money, married, divorced, play around, used his power and ...  Read the complete review

I'd love to nominate John Grisham for a crown, because every time i pick one of his books up I stay, literally, in the same place until I finish it. I have read the Testament, The Bretheren and more, and have recently finished the painted house. I am not going to give a synopsis of the story, as so many other people have, I'll just ...  Read the complete review

I am one of those people who starts 4 books at a time and reads each one on a different occasion… one for the bath, one for bedtime, one for your bag to read when waiting for a bus, and so on. However, I am also the type of person who rarely finishes a book. But recently I was given a copy of John Grisham’s The Testament and finished ...  Read the complete review

One of John Grishams latest books once again has caused a storm of praise. The best seller has written a novel of intrigue and question, the story follows a lawyer trying to find his clients lost daughter. The daughter is in the jungles of brazil and does not want to be found and as far as the law is concerned she has disappeared for years so ...  Read the complete review

Since reading A Time To Kill, a book that totally gripped me, I have actively sought out John Grisham’s books and have often referred to him as one of my favourite authors. Even your favourites can let you down. Stephen King let me down with Rose Madder and John Grisham let me down with The Testament. At the beginning of The ...  Read the complete review

The Testament is a little different from the two other books of Grishams I have read as in there isn’t as much legalise in it, in fact in parts it becomes a little “Raiders for the lost Ark ”. The book is about an eighty year old Billionaire that decides to leave nothing to his ex-wives and 6 children from those ...  Read the complete review

Here we see John Grisham taking a new role in a book, meeting religion with the hard cold world of the American justice system who’s questionable ethics and values leave a lot to be desired. The story begins with a bitter, depressed, immensely rich businessman taking his life attempting to spite his children in the process. The ...  Read the complete review

John Grisham's latest book sees a formerly high-powered lawyer who left the world of legelese due to a substance abuse problem return to the world of Right Honuorables and set about finding the heir to a $11 billion estate. ALthough the book is written in John Grisham usual style(superb)I felt rather left down at the story line and I ...  Read the complete review

I recently read John Grisham’s The Testament, and I must say, I was impressed! The first few chapters are told in the first person to ease you in and see the story from a real person’s perspective. This leads up to somebody rich and important (worth $11bn) dying, and the rest of the story is about the splitting of the will. The main ...  Read the complete review

I really enjoyed this book. Well, I actually like them all but this one (his most recent) really stood out, I think it’s because his writing style seemed to be a little different to how it usually is. In short, it’s funnier. I mean, it’s still unmistakably him, but he occasionally seems to be delving into the realms of ...  Read the complete review

This book is definitely different from the other novels Grisham has written, but I found it just as satisfying. The author has a unique way of involving the reader in just a few paragraphs so you end up hooked. Easy reading, so that you can pace yourself but easily finish the book in a few days. The characters are a little different, somewhat ...  Read the complete review

This is the first John Grisham book I've read, and the action certainly moves along at a quick pace. It focuses on the last will and testament of Troy Phelan, one of America's richest men. His will disposes of his $11bn fortune, and his greedy and dissolte heirs are up to their eyeballs in debt and desperate to get their hands on the ...  Read the complete review

I have read other books of Grisham, and this one is not up to his usual standard. The Testament starts off real good,but seems to go down hill from there. When I started to read The Testament, I initially found it to be a funny, witty and quite entertaining story - greedy wanna-be heirs and lawyers, and the tricks they play on each other, a ...  Read the complete review

Imagine you are the 10th richest man in America, with a multi-billion empire spiralling across the globe. You have been so rich for so long, that you have grown tired of all the fun that money can buy. And you realised as you get older that estranged family members start to take interest in your health, or rather the lack of it. Our ...  Read the complete review

I thoroughly enjoyed this book! It had adventure, suspense and growth of the human spirit all eveloped under Grisham's usual legal framework. Although this differed greatly from a lot of Grisham's other works (with a strong spiritual undertone) I found it to be a nice addition to the plot, not an annoyance. The fact that people ...  Read the complete review