The Law Review (Paperback)

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"Readers who enjoy novels by Scott Turow...should find The Law Review a worthy addition to their bookshelves." -- Fore Word Magazine

"everything depends on clawing your way up from high grades to Law Review...to the very center of political power." -- Tom Scorza, author of Lady Justice and former federal prosecutor

Product Description

Grayson has just started law school at the University of Chicago with dreams of a prestigious legal career and, one day, running for public office. The gateway to these opportunities is membership on the exclusive legal journal, the Law Review. While vying for membership on the journal, Grayson becomes romantically involved with one of its leading editors, the elusive Aris. He soon finds himself in the middle of the editors' ever escalating fight for control of the Law Review - and for Aris's bed. When one of the editors is found lying in a pool of blood, Grayson realizes that he knows too much. Torn between conflicting loyalties, he finds his promising future, and even his life, in jeopardy.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 166 pages
• Publisher: Creative Arts Book Company (May 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0887393772
• ISBN-13: 978-0887393778
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #429,470 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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34 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a Masterpiece!, June 15, 2002

By	Royal A Masset (Austin, TX United States) - See all my reviews

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.

21 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Insightful and Compelling, May 17, 2002

By	Neil Collins Patten (Spring, TX United States) - See all my reviews

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.

9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Spellbinding and Provocative - Excellent!, December 20, 2002

By	Scott A. Siebels (Palm Harbor, FL USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.