Theodore Boone: The Activist

My first post for the summer will be about Theodore Boone: The Activist. It's the fourth book in a great series written by John Grisham. They are mystery books, and once you start reading them, you won't want to put them down. Within the first five pages of the first book, I was hooked. They are about a kid who wants to grow up to be a lawyer and has his own office in his parents' law firm. He knows a lot about the law, and every once in a while he skips school to go see a good court case.

     Something that stuck out to me in this book was the law of eminent domain. This is where the government is allowed to take away land from the people to build a new road or something like that, paying them of course. According to www.lrc.ky.gov, the law of eminent domain is prohibited in Kentucky. Then I wondered if the lane extention on Rineyville Rd./Cardinal Dr. was necessary or if the government just wanted it. The people who had to move out of their homes must have been mad, like the people in this book. Also, the pollution carried to new areas with this road and the one in the book was a big problem. The law of eminent domain can be helpful to some people, but can hurt a lot of people too. For example, in the book one of Theo's (the main character) friends has a family farm that his family has owned for over 100 years, and the bypass (the project the government wants done) will run straight through it.

     Overall I thought this was a good book woth a lot of action and surprise. It hooked me from the very beginning and I didn't want to put it down until the end. The only thing I didn't like about the book was the end. It kind of ended in a way that I thought there was going to be more, but there wasn't. This book was very good. I would reccommend the whole series to anyone who likes a good mystery.