** spoiler alert ** Wow, I am shocked at the amount of people who actually liked this book. Every two years or so I get the urge to read a Grisham novel in the hopes that it will be as good as his early work, but the last three books I've read have been a big disappointment (The Last Juror, The Broker and The King of Torts)

It's fine if Grisham wants to write something different than a legal thriller, but I wish his publishers didn't advertise this book as if it was. I really didn't want to read a book about small town southern life, especially a particularly boring southern town, but that is pretty much what this book is about. I found the characters to be uninteresting, particularly the main character. I thought it absolutely ridiculous that he sold the paper at the end so he could stay in the town and basically do nothing. The part where he went around to all the various churches in the area did nothing for the plot and it didn't even change his character mentally or spiritually. What was the point????

I did like how he brought back characters from A Time to Kill as Harry Rex is a great character, though I was disappointed about Lucien Wilbanks. I thought maybe the Padgitt case was the case that got him disbarred....but nope. He was disbarred for some other case that they barely mentioned. You would have thought that would be big news in that town, but apparently not. In A Time to Kill he was portrayed as a brilliant legal mind, but in this book he was a stereotypical defense attorney that did not impress me with his legal skills.

I thought the ending was ridiculous, both finding out who was killing the jurors and when Callie died....just awful. I kept reading this book hoping that the end would be worth it, but now I wish I had just stopped reading after page 100. I am referring to The Last Juror as the The Last Grisham Novel (that I will ever read).