Bonnie S. (Bonnie) - reviewed on 5/18/2011 + 421 more book reviews

Sharyn McCrumb is my favorite southern author. I love her MacPherson mysteries for fun, and really love her Ballad books for just wonderful, rich reading. However, I just finished her latest Ballad, The Devil Amongst the Lawyers and was bored out of my mind. The ONLY relation to the other Ballads in the series was that it takes place in Appalachia, and for a very very short time, old Nora Bonesteel appears as a 12 year old. There is throughout the book a reporting of a murder trial, one all of the characters continue to say is beyond boring, which makes for a really boring book since those reporters are as boring as hell themselves. Oh, McCrumb tries to give them interesting backgrounds, but it doesn't work. This is the first book I've read in years that I actually made myself finish, since I don't do that anymore, struggle with a book. But I just couldn't accept that she'd written something so bland...

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