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The Firm by John Grisham
adventurous mysterious slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Thank you Tandem and Vintage Books for the gifted copy of The Firm!  All opinions in this review are my own!

From the opening pages of The Firm, it was clear that some of the language used didn't age well which put me off at first.  I liked that the book provides more detail on The Firm's actions than the movie did so you got the sense of how sinster it is early on.  However, I feel like the book took a long time to get to the action packed ending and could have been trimmed more once we realized how bad The Firm was.  I was worried that I wouldn't be able to follow the end of the movie chase scene as well in the book, but the ending of the book is so much better!  The ending of the book leaves a better opening for the sequel.