A review by elinacre
Gray Mountain by John Grisham

3.0

huh. not your best work, mr. grisham. i loved the idea of this, and loved the parts about coal mining and black lung disease and the infuriating injustice suffered by these mining families of appalachia... but samantha was lame and wishy washy and kind of a snot (with a good heart at least, but take a dang stand, woman!). then, the last bit of the book (and apparently the whopping important part, if the title is an indication) is basically unrelated. so much sucky dialogue and boring narration throughout (ending a chapter with "she was craving a burger and fries" isn't the kind of cliffhanger that keeps me up at night... maybe i've just been reading too much dean koontz, aka the master of cliffhangers, imo). i feel too guilty to give it 2 stars, because i really did like most of the characters (badasses mattie and annette especially rocked), but for such a big name author, this just wasn't the best.