It’s Time Travel Thursday! Hosted by Emily @ Budget Tales Book Blog, this is where you get to take a look back at what you were reading this time last year (or the year before or the year before that…) and get to relive those bookish memories!
This time last year I was reading:
The Rooster Bar by John Grisham
Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law school to change the world, to make it a better place. But now, as third-year students, these close friends realize they have been duped. They all borrowed heavily to attend a third-tier, for-profit law school so mediocre that its graduates rarely pass the bar exam, let alone get good jobs. And when they learn that their school is one of a chain owned by a shady New York hedge-fund operator who also happens to own a bank specializing in student loans, the three know they have been caught up in The Great Law School Scam.
But maybe there’s a way out. Maybe there’s a way to escape their crushing debt, expose the bank and the scam, and make a few bucks in the process. But to do so, they would first have to quit school. And leaving law school a few short months before graduation would be completely crazy, right? Well, yes and no . . .
Pull up a stool, grab a cold one, and get ready to spend some time at The Rooster Bar.
My thoughts:
It was okay. Great storytelling, but not so great story – I like the depth of the characters, but the story and the circumstances were kinda far-fetched and irreverent, and I don’t like the moralities on either side. I can’t root for anyone, and the MCs made a lot of stupid decisions. Just because it worked out for them (unrealistically), doesn’t make it smart. They could’ve played it so many different ways. Or maybe just have a different story to bring down the bad guys.
My rating: ⭐⭐⭐/5
Have you read this book? What did you think of it? What were you reading this time last year?
I haven’t read this one yet, but last year, I think I was in a reading slump! Thanks for sharing your thoughts on The Rooster Bar.
Are you still reading The Count of Monte Cristo? (In your Currently Reading widget) I want to start that at some point!
Yes, I’m still reading The Count of Monte Cristo! It’s a readalong that will go on until the end of April, so I’m taking time in between to read other books too. It’s one of my all-time favorite books so I really hope you’ll love it when you read it!