Book #61: The Associate by John Grisham

A road trip, like the one we just took to the Outer Banks, is always a cause for us to find a quick and gripping book on CD for us to listen to while we drive. It makes such a huge difference for how long the trip feels for us to have something good to listen to! John Grisham and Tom Clancy are some of our favorite authors for that sort of reading/listening because they're so easy to follow and they keep your interest really well. I went into the library with Dane while picking up the sister missionaries from the library and had about .4 seconds to choose a book on CD while the sisters were waiting for me and Dane was trying to escape from me, so I just grabbed three John Grisham books and hoped for the best. We chose this one and enjoyed it while we drove. It seemed very similar to The Firm, which we listened to while we drove across the country last summer, but it wasn't as good. The Firm was awesome because it kept you jumping and wondering how the guy would survive, and it had a great ending where he beat everyone and got away. The Associate was almost exactly the same idea, where the new lawyer gets blackmailed/forced into doing something he doesn't want to do, but it seemed kind of anticlimactic in comparison. I did enjoy the peek into the corporate lawyer world that Kyle works in, as it confirmed to me how happy I am that we don't have a lifestyle like that and that Tommy is going to have a very different work experience. Thank goodness! It was a great, quick read (listen) that definitely fulfilled our goal of getting us to the OBX and back.