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Book Review of The Lincoln Lawyer (Mickey Haller, Bk 1)

The Lincoln Lawyer (Mickey Haller, Bk 1)
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I read THE LINCOLN LAWYER for this month's "Book-to-Movie" theme in my online book club, The Reading Cove.

The opening really engaged me. Michael Connelly's writing was sharp, and I really felt like I was riding around L.A. with busy defense attorney Mickey Haller in the back seat of his Lincoln Town Car going from courthouse to courthouse. And it's a great behind-the-scenes look at the legal system from the defense perspective.

By the middle, the pacing slowed. A lot. And I found myself able to skim through lots of pages without missing much.

The ending was unexpected, but since my interest level had wained with the slow in pace, it wasn't jaw-droppingly so. B-