L'indagine. I casi di Theodore Boone. Vol. 1

While there may be kids who will enjoy reading this trial story I expected more from the reviews I'd read. I debated giving this a three because I do think Grisham did a reasonably good job helping kids better understand how trials work. But in the end I felt there wasn't enough action for this sort Leggi tutto

Zabavno stivo, moze da zabavi i odrasle...

(Copied from my blog ) Hey, when you were a kid, did you ever feel compelled to seek legal advice? Or play golf? Yeah, I didn’t think so. So you can imagine my confusion over why international bestselling author of legal thrillers John Grisham‘s new foray into kid lit has so far scored 3.35 out of 5 sta Leggi tutto

I didn't realise this book was aimed at teenagers when I picked it up, but I really enjoyed it and it really explained well how things work in a real court room. Excellent story line and a good read ... I think I prefer his YA stuff to his adult books to be honest. Four stars.

Grisham for teens! Theodore Boone is thirteen. His parents are both lawyers so he spends a lot of time hanging around the court rooms and is known by all the legal staff. His school friends begin asking him for legal advice and having access to supposedly secure legal files, he carefully dispenses it Leggi tutto

Grisham has jumped on the "Best-selling adult author writes YA book" bandwagon, and the result is pretty lame. It is clunky, slow-paced, and at no point did I forget the fact that this was Grisham pretending to be a YA author. Don't waste your time. As a middle school librarian, and fan of (most of) Leggi tutto