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snuckols's review against another edition
4.0
Great summer read!! I still remember reading Presumed Innocent when I was fresh out of high school, and this one was just as riveting. It took awhile to get into it but once I was about 100 pages in I couldn't put it down.
davidpaige's review against another edition
4.0
This story picks up twenty years after the end of the previous book, Presumed Innocent. We learn a few things about Rusty that we didn't know in the first book. It starts out with Rusty calling his son, after he has been in bed with his dead wife for 24 hours. A series of missteps in his personal life leads to his being brought up on murder charges. There weren't quite enough courtroom scenes, but was there brought some great surprises. I did not expect it to end the way it did, though. Can't say any more than that. A good read, but I recommend reading the first book before reading this one.
gazakas's review against another edition
5.0
Ο Τάροου κατορθώνει να δώσει στο δικό του Μετά Είκοσι Έτη τέτοιο λογοτεχνικό βάθος που ο χαρακτηρισμός "δικαστικό θρίλερ" είναι τουλάχιστον υποτιμητικός. Διαφορετικές αφηγηματικές φωνές και οπτικές γωνίες σε παρασέρνουν σε μια κάθοδο στην ψυχή, κατά πρώτο λόγο ενός επιτυχημένου μεσήλικα που αγνοεί το ρητό το "δις εξαμαρτείν" με καταστροφικές συνέπειες, και κατά δεύτερον του γιου του, που βλέπει τον πατέρα του να κατηγορείται για το φόνο της μητέρας του, της πρώην ερωμένης του, που είναι τώρα η σύντροφος του γιου του και του δημόσιου κατηγόρου, που έχει ανοιχτούς λογαριασμούς μαζί του από παλιά. Ο Ράστι Σάμπιτς παραμένει το ίδιο ανόητος όσο και πριν από είκοσι χρόνια ή άλλαξε κάτι; Ο Τομ Μόλτο είναι ακόμη ο παρορμητικός και αδυσώπητος υπηρέτης του νόμου που ήταν; Πόσα μυστικά θα αποκαλυφθούν και πόσα όχι; Η Μπάρμπαρα πεθαίνει από φυσικά αίτια, αυτοκτονεί ή δολοφονείται; Βλέπεις τους ήρωες να κινούνται στις σελίδες και παραμένεις αμφίθυμος, χωρίς να ξέρεις με ποιον να συνταχθείς ή αν πρέπει να συνταχθείς με κάποιον. Ο θάνατος ως δοκιμασία.
Από εδώ: https://gazakas.wordpress.com/2012/08/28/21x8x7/
Από εδώ: https://gazakas.wordpress.com/2012/08/28/21x8x7/
margardenlady's review against another edition
4.0
It got better and better. This was a slow starter for me, but I was glad I hung in there to the end - some surprising twists and turns.
robinhigdon's review against another edition
5.0
excellent who-dunit. i read the prequel so many years ago i was worried that i would not follow the story, but was able to do so with no problem. good twists.
gmh711's review against another edition
4.0
Good suspense. Even though I have little patience for middle-aged men who have May-September extra-marital affairs, the twists and turns kept me turning the pages (or popping in the next CD in my case). Even when I had one of the twists figured out, it quickly got turned in another direction. It's been eons since I read Presumed Innocent, I'll probably go back and read it again now. It's not necessary they be read in order.
williamc's review against another edition
3.0
The rule of murder mysteries is that the author must establish a small set of characters and successfully carry a story with those characters so that each could plausibly have committed the crime. There are combinations that mix numbers from the set to establish certain rules of the fiction, or of the relationships between characters, and then, at the end, the set reveals its false bottom -- a new variable that meets all the definitions to have been included in the first place -- and out comes the legitimate killer. It's a math problem, when put to paper. This is how Turow's novels work anyway, and Innocent is a well done effort exactly in that vein: the reader is kept guessing, and, joyfully, never quite guesses right. This novel also benefits from its two strong predecessors -- [b:Presumed Innocent|425029|Presumed Innocent|Scott Turow|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174626217s/425029.jpg|7732] and, in a better book with as much Sandy Stern as you could hope for, [b:The Burden of Proof|4035|The Burden of Proof|Scott Turow|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165382302s/4035.jpg|1732833] -- as well as the now iconic 1990 film with Harrison Ford, which frees Turow to play with the now-adult Nate Sabitch and law clerk Anna Vostic as half-leads. All in all, it's an enjoyable ride -- the slow start in defining the set hits an excellent pace in the courtroom, and the book catches us up with a cast we've sorely missed. I could read another two or three novels set in Rusty Sabitch's world, but I'm not sure we'll get that chance.
cricci's review against another edition
2.0
Innocent has a great plot premise, and I love some of the descriptions in it. However, the book is just too long winded with too many twists. By the end with the last twist, I was at the rolling-eyes,-oh-really?-not-again phase. At times, I had difficulty pushing through the reading because I found the plot dragging, and then when I would get interested in it, the chapter would end and a new narrator would show me something else.
The plot and the mother are the two saving graces of the book. The mother is my favorite character because she seems to have the most depth and mystery. She is also the only major character to not narrate in the entire book because she dies . The plot itself is interesting and thought provoking. I loved how Turow kept me on my toes wondering how the death occurred. I just wish he could have incorporated some brevity. I guess it's just not a characteristic of lawyers.
The plot and the mother are the two saving graces of the book. The mother is my favorite character because she seems to have the most depth and mystery. She is also the only major character to not narrate in the entire book