Friday, January 9, 2015

GRAY MATTERS by John Grisham ***

Time travel back to 2008 and Samatha is a big time broker for the stock market. She loses her job and goes from NY to a country law practice becoming a lawyer for people who have no money with a few others in the practice. 90% of the time you do not stop hearing how much she HATES the job DESPISES the small town.

Her new boss is married so she has a fling with his younger jailbird brother. This is in Appalachia and has tons of info on coal mining and black lung disease. It's information in that regard people against neighbors selling out mountain tops for strip mining, which causes slurry which causes cancer in the drinking dirty water which washes down onto the town during heavy rains.

So does Samantha decide to go back to NY where she's more comfortable and has normal type frieds or does she prefer the Appalachia inbred alcoholics? The ending is puzzling. There is a lot of boring narrative spots here and there, esp. when she's walking someplace.

I would borrow it. Not an edge of the seat murder mystery or anything altho people do die you know who did it throughout the novel. Probably fact based in some areas. Not my reading preference so only 3 stars. You may like it better if you like Grisham and Mt. Peoples.

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