What readers think of The King of Torts, plus links to write your own review.

I admit, this book was horrible. However, you do have to give credit to the fact that it kept you hooked until the very dissapointing end. I kept expecting the plot to appear but it didn't. It was just an extremely long narration of some sort with no point to it. If you're looking for a great Grisham read, try The Runaway Jury, but DO NOT watch the crappy film adaptation. They change the plot completely.

Please...just because it's Grisham doesn't mean you have to give it a 2 or a 3 if it was a dissapointment. This book was poor. Clay goes from principled defender of the poor to rich, greedy tort lawyer too fast and without any reasonable explanation. The ending was rushed and predictable. Plus, we never get to really know Rebecca or Clay, so it's hard to really care what happens to them anyway. The book is a '1', gang...admit it.

I thought that the whole premise that Clay Carter would become a mass tort lawyer was flawed. In one breath we see that the guy is principled enough not to take the job his future father-in-law tries to get him and then in the next breath he agrees to compromise his profession by making $5 million side deals. I also thought that a poor job was done of actually explaining why he ever wanted Rebecca back or why he allowed the model to milk him dry. There was not much conflict in this book and the ending was extemely predictable. This book is not a good advertisement for why people read.

I have always enjoyed Grisham. However I am only on page 77 of the King of Torts and I feel as if I know what is going to happen and that I have read this book before.

I have just started with the book and I got pretty excited when I encountered Paulette Tullos. I know its a cheap thrill..but hey...i don't encounter Paulette's everyday (only 2 live ones to date) and for Grisham to use it impresses me to no end. Anyway, after 6 chapters..i know the best is yet to come.

Loved the book, could not put it down. Would have liked to see a better (different) ending.

The "King of Torts" was a 5 rating up until the ending! I was extremely disappointed because I sensed what was coming! Usually I try to figure out Grisham's endings and am way off track, but this one I hit the nail on the head! That's not a good thing, because I like to be caught off guard! I loved the characters and the plot! The mysterious benefactor of Clay's rise to fame and fortune stays mysterious and the reader is left to guess what happened to him as well as how many millions he escaped with!

The story was okay for me. I agree the ending was weak.
(By the way, does anyone else think Grisham has his own Gulfstream jet from the details he gives?...Funny how he mentions one in "The Summons"...like he was thinking of buying one when he wrote that book. By the time he wrote King of Torts, he must have purchased one; the book's characters are obsessed with them.)