Riveting story with great character development

Scott Turow certainly knows how to tell a yarn. This serpentine tale has more twists than the road to Portafino.

Started a little slow, but not much later stole my interest and didn’t let up. Another great Turow book.

Not what I was looking forward to. Long on details and slow on activity. I stopped before 80 pages

Too long

That’s why it is over 3000 pages. I got less than half thru, and couldn’t take anymore.

It is hard to believe how many years after “Presumed Innocent” this is written. It is very clever how the two books are tied together. This book gives good trial details without being overwhelming.

Worst Turow has ever done. Maybe he's just too old but he either needs to go back to writer school or change careers to preacher. At least 50% too many boring, rambling pages.

Too long.

If you can get past the constant bombardment of racism and sociodemographic stereotyping in the author’s “style”, I suspect this is a great read. However, there comes a point where it becomes nauseating and I find myself rolling my eyes, mostly because while the author most likely thinks he’s taking a morally superior righteous stance, it can easily be perceived that he is the guilty party to such societal taboos. (Shooting one’s seIf in the foot) I get it. This technique is not meant to be a reflection of the author, but merely to drive a point home that he deems relevant to the story, but frequency and lengths to which he carries it is completely unnecessary and unintentionally, I would hope, offensive to certain groups of people he deems oppressed. I don’t appreciate it and found myself thinking, “here we go again. What offensive stereotype is he throwing out now” throughout the book. I would hope that this is an anomaly applicable to this particular book, but I suspect that’s not the case. Had I read a review as such, I probably would have passed on the book.