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4.22 AVERAGE
4.22 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Book 32 of 2025
“To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
5/5 ⭐️
Length: 12:17
Genre: Historical Fiction, Coming-of-Age, Classic
Synopsis: A coming-of-age story about a girl nicknamed “Scout” growing up in Alabama during The Great Depression. Scout lives with her brother & father (her mother passed away when she was a baby). Her father, Atticus Finch, is a local lawyer & member of the Alabama state legislature. During one summer he is called on to be the defense attorney in a case that rocks the county & changes the Finches lives forever.
Review: This may shock most people, but this is the first time, I have ever read “To Kill a Mockingbird.” I think I remember reading a small section in one of our literature books while in high school & thinking it was boring & never caring to read it after that. That was an incredibly poor judgement on my part & I regret never reading this before now.
This book is beautifully well-written & the story is so powerful. It is no wonder that this has gone down as the one of the greatest American classics & is recommended reading for almost all American high school students. I will also commend Sissy Spacek for doing a phenomenal job with audiobook narration.
If you haven’t read this book, I will warn that if deals heavily with mature topics like rape and abuse (particularly sexual), uses derogatory language (specifically the “n” word) profusely, & deal with extreme racism.
ive written too many damn essays on this book
emotional
hopeful
sad
challenging
inspiring
tense
medium-paced
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
I’m personally rating these books on how much I enjoyed them, and I honestly did not enjoy reading this book at all. All of the deep meaning was kind of lost on me ngl. This book was assigned reading for school, which also kinda ruined it tbh. I was in a state of confusion for the whole book
dark
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
challenging
dark
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I’ll be honest and say that the content of this book must have passed me by in my years on this earth. I had no idea what it was about, what year it was set in or anything that happened. I only knew it was deemed a classic and people read it a lot in school (which is wild to me now).
I really liked it. I liked the story, I liked the way it was told, I loved the naivety of both Scout and Jem but also how intelligent they were for being so young. I often forgot the story was being told by a young girl but when you heard/read the way that Atticus talks to them, it adds up that they might be old before their time.
It took me a couple of days to get into it and I did worry that I wasn’t going to enjoy it. Reading the blurb gave away the main plot point (of course) but I did find it took a good while to get into this part of the story. But I wasn’t bored by the narrative, I enjoyed learning about Scout’s life and her viewpoint on the world. I liked seeing the different worlds come together and as someone who has no idea what America was like in the 1930s, I was keen to learn.
The language shocked me. Again, because I didn’t know anything about this book I was not expecting some of the terms used and I felt a bit uncomfortable to begin with - which is the point - its language which is not used nowadays and so it did take me a while to get “used” to the fact that it was in this book. I imagine if I reread this I’ll be confused all over again.
I can see why this book is so well received and considered a classic. It covered many different taboo topics (some which are even considered taboo now) but it never shied away from them; it made the reader face these questions head on.
I’m pleased I read this. It’s been on my TBR for years but just never thought about it. Shame on me really, I’ve been missing out.
I really liked it. I liked the story, I liked the way it was told, I loved the naivety of both Scout and Jem but also how intelligent they were for being so young. I often forgot the story was being told by a young girl but when you heard/read the way that Atticus talks to them, it adds up that they might be old before their time.
It took me a couple of days to get into it and I did worry that I wasn’t going to enjoy it. Reading the blurb gave away the main plot point (of course) but I did find it took a good while to get into this part of the story. But I wasn’t bored by the narrative, I enjoyed learning about Scout’s life and her viewpoint on the world. I liked seeing the different worlds come together and as someone who has no idea what America was like in the 1930s, I was keen to learn.
The language shocked me. Again, because I didn’t know anything about this book I was not expecting some of the terms used and I felt a bit uncomfortable to begin with - which is the point - its language which is not used nowadays and so it did take me a while to get “used” to the fact that it was in this book. I imagine if I reread this I’ll be confused all over again.
I can see why this book is so well received and considered a classic. It covered many different taboo topics (some which are even considered taboo now) but it never shied away from them; it made the reader face these questions head on.
I’m pleased I read this. It’s been on my TBR for years but just never thought about it. Shame on me really, I’ve been missing out.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Murder, Classism
Moderate: Alcoholism, Gun violence
Minor: Physical abuse, Fire/Fire injury