I'll be honest about it up front and admit that while I was reading this book I wasn't aware that it had been written for a younger market.
It was only after I'd finished and went online to see if anyone else agreed with my thoughts that the standard of Grisham's writing had seriously declined that this important fact came to light!
When I did find out it was a relief because I though either:
a.) John Grisham had been taking the piss with the half-assed attempt at a book
or
b.) he'd suffered some kind of brain injury and no one wanted to tell him so they let him publish anyway!
Having found out it was neither, I realised the book was much better than the crime ones I read when I was younger (and yes, I'm talking about you Frank and Joe Hardy! I didn't bother with Nancy Drew; and the Famous Five were just annoying!)
So all in all, it WAS a good book, just read in the wrong frame of mind ;)
I give Theodore Boone 3.5 "Kid Lawyer" out of 5
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