The Legal Limit

Densely characterized and plotted Southern Gothic legal fiction. I wouldn't call this a thriller, per se, but it is intense and surprisingly driving, considering the meandering and somewhat lazy narrative. Thoroughly engaging and lively characters populating a wonderful story about life gone wrong, and life gone right. I just got lost in the prose - very evocative and “homey”.I hate all of the comparisons to [a:John Grisham 721 John Grisham http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1198174022p2/721.jpg] this book has gotten, because, really, if a book is written about some aspect of the law or lawyering, and is set in the South, and the similarities end there, those aren't necessarily enough points of comparison to draw to call [a:Martin Clark 7779 Arthur C. Clarke http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1193516744p2/7779.jpg] “the drinking man's Grisham”. How silly.