Very legal
and not very thriller. With this novel Grisham returns after “The Chamber” and “Innocent”
to deal with the capital punishment and to denounce the American judicial
system, of the states where it is still applied, for the manner in which it is too
lightly used for political purposes.
The tagline
on the cover (“An innocent man is days from execution. Only a guilty man can
save him.”) lets mistakenly think it is a thriller, although it is defined this
way. In fact, this fictional, but entirely plausible (and that's what scares), story
once again talks about the people, for good or especially bad. Its characters
are damn real, starting with Travis Boyette, the one who confesses, who with
his tics and pauses, his controversial personality of a criminal with feelings
of guilt, because someone is paying for his crime, results in reader annoyance,
disgust, but also pity. It isn’t the classic villain, but a character who lives
in the grey area between the light and the dark, someone in whom we can
identify despite his story.
Here we see
the talent of this writer, who with the achievement of a stable reputation is
free of telling his stories, which do not have a final twist or a happy ending like
in real life. But they are true, almost more than reality.
As the plot
develops in an intentionally slow way, jumping from one place to another, you
don’t lose at all your concentration, but you are caught by it to the end. And
even if it leaves with a bitter disappointment, at the same time there is
something comforting, that makes you close the book with a sense of
satisfaction. The one you feel after reading a good book.
The Confession
on Amazon.com.
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