The Law Review

By S. Scott Gaille

Grayson has just started law school at the University of Chicago, where membership in the legal journal, the Law Review, is the gateway to prestigious employment. While vying for membership on the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887393772
• ISBN13: 9780887393778
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Creative Arts Book Company
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.2" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Smart and Quirky

This is a quirky story filled with unusual characters hell-bent on getting ahead at any price. With every turn, the story sharply highlights the darker recesses of a greedy culture that celebrates status irrespective of substantive accomplishment. The bitter surprise of The Law Review, though, is the absence of justice. It does make one wonder how many crimes go hidden and unpunished.

Spellbinding and Provocative - Excellent!

A great read - excellent first effort by Gaille. This book was hard to put down. Though structured as a mystery, the murder and investigation are a device to advance the real story, a study of the ambition, self-importance and altered sense of reality that can afflict the most dedicated students at a top-tier law school. Simply being accepted is a victory, access to a successful career assured, but to Grayson Bullock and Aris Byrd attending classes and formal legal education are a side show - the real struggle is for and about the law review. Those who fall short are failures; those who succeed are a self-anointed royal class destined to clerk for the Supreme Court and walk the halls of power. In their insulated, artificial world intellectual superiority justifies any action, any manipulation regardless of the impact on other's lives, to assure success. Grayson struggles with a dying conscience as he watches Aris and her law review cohorts destroy lives and use sex and love as a weapon. He comes to understand that he is just like Aris, kindred spirits in a world that does not understand or appreciate them.The book hints at the personal changes and self-evaluation that occur when Grayson graduates and enters the real world, leaving the reader wondering about a possible sequel. Dark, sometimes disturbing, The Law Review is fast-paced and provocative, a must-read for anyone thinking about law school. For others, it is a great story, well-told.

This is a Masterpiece!

This book was so good that I could not put it down. In some ways this was like Grisham's novels but without the fluff. I found the text so powerful and realistic that I'm hoping the murder was fiction and not a real life memory of the author.The novel is about a group of ambitious law students wanting to advance their careers by being on the Law Review. The Editor of the Review is murdered. This is unlike the normal "who done it" because these top law students knew far more law than the police or prosecuters. This has more twists and turns than a vineyard.Scott Gaille had more gratuitous sex than was necessary. But he certainly conveyed the pressures these law students were under. Many Law Review types really are under the delusion that they are more than pretentious clerks. Gaille picks up these delusions very accurately and creates actions that are not implausible.This is an incredible read. This book is also evidence that one needs a strong publisher to give a novel adequate exposure. This should be a best seller but probably will never receive the promotion is deserves.

Insightful and Compelling

Besides being a page-turning, Grishamesque thriller and a MUST for lawyers and law students, The Law Review is an insightful and compelling look at a man's journey into a world of obsession and desire--for money, for power, for sex--where he finds himself wrestling with his own obsessions and ultimately, his humanity. Obviously, anyone who has suffered through the demands of law school will recognize and appreciate Grayson Bullock's struggles, but so too will anyone who has ever felt the struggle between good and evil--in short, all of us.