Amazon.com.au:Customer reviews: The Reckoning: the electrifying new novel from bestseller John Grisham

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Masterful nostalgia

2 November 2018

I had to read this book straight through. Grisham takes us back to rural Mississippi just after the war. This is well done whether or not the reader is able to understand this bygone era.

A decorated war hero shoots the local preacher and then does not defend himself at trial. John describes the post war rural south and its customs extremely well. And describes the ghastly war in the Philippines with the same eye to detail.

At the end the story seems to drag as the consequences play out.

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Karen

Not His Best Work—Very Disappointed.

11 November 2018

I was so disappointed in this book. I’d been looking forward to it for months. I usually love Grisham’s books. This one was very slow moving with lots of time devoted to storylines that didn’t add much value to the story.

It had the potential to be great. The premise was good, the time period interesting and if chapters about Pete’s time in the Phillipines referred back to the primary storyline the book could have been very good.

I was really hoping for a Grisham twist, something to save the day but it was entirely predictable and just fizzled out.

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Karen

Not His Best Work—Very Disappointed.

11 November 2018

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Masterful nostalgia

2 November 2018

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Part 2 seemed like a filler

22 January 2019

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Part 2 did not advance the plot at all, since we already had been told in general terms about Pete's war record. Read like a filler to lengthen the novel. Also at times the prose seemed as though it was written by someone other than Mr Grisham.
I had guessed the ending and thought the reveal by Florrie was a lazy way to expose it.

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Veronica Jones

Most Tedious

12 December 2018

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I was very disappointed with this book.
Most of the contents are not relevant to the story. If I want to read a POW story in world war 2. I wouldn’t have chosen Grisham as the author. I expected a court room drama.

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Brudney

Disappointing

30 October 2018

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Tedious and drawn out combination of soap opera, legal stuff and world war 2 history. Not worth the effort or the price

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Ric was very disappointed

Disappointed

17 February 2019

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An egregious example of pedestrian writing. Disappointed because I have enjoyed previous books. Facile ending but it highlighted the evil of segregation and racialism. Two stars for that alone.

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