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3.85 AVERAGE
3.85 AVERAGE
slow-paced
adventurous
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
medium-paced
It has been awhile since I really enjoyed JG's book and I'm glad I picked this one up from the library. Sequel to A Time To Kill alhough you don't actually have to have read it to understand this one. Still based on racial divide in the south. In this book I found the old JG I liked. A true story-master. It grabbed me from beginning to end. Slightly predictable but still elequontly told nevertheless.
Note: my reviews are more like personal reminders.
The title is misleading as it never comes into play until the end. However, having said that, this is a really good story. Characters are very believable and I found myself really disliking the bad guys and rooting for the good guys. :) I always know it’s a good book when I tell my husband about it and he keeps asking me how the book is going.
The title is misleading as it never comes into play until the end. However, having said that, this is a really good story. Characters are very believable and I found myself really disliking the bad guys and rooting for the good guys. :) I always know it’s a good book when I tell my husband about it and he keeps asking me how the book is going.
Classic Grisham; not an intellectual read, but entertaining enough for a travel read.
Grisham reminds to the reader that he can indeed spin a yarn (or two). A pleasan surprise among many mediocre books he wrote lately.
Jake Brigance has never met Seth Hubbard, or even heard of him, until the old man's suicide note names him attorney for his estate. The will is dynamite. Seth has left ninety per cent of his vast, secret fortune to his housemaid.
The vultures are circling even before the body is cold: the only subject more incendiary than money in Ford County is race, and this case has both.
AS the relatives contest the will, and unscrupulous lawyers hasten to benefit, Jake searches for answers to the many questions left by Seth Hubbard's death:
What made him write that last-minute will leaving everything to a poor black woman named Lettie Lang?
Why did he choose to kill himself on the desolate piece of land known as Sycamore Row?
And what was it that Seth and his brother witnessed as children that, in his words, 'no human should ever see'?
Jake Brigance has never met Seth Hubbard, or even heard of him, until the old man's suicide note names him attorney for his estate. The will is dynamite. Seth has left ninety per cent of his vast, secret fortune to his housemaid.
The vultures are circling even before the body is cold: the only subject more incendiary than money in Ford County is race, and this case has both.
AS the relatives contest the will, and unscrupulous lawyers hasten to benefit, Jake searches for answers to the many questions left by Seth Hubbard's death:
What made him write that last-minute will leaving everything to a poor black woman named Lettie Lang?
Why did he choose to kill himself on the desolate piece of land known as Sycamore Row?
And what was it that Seth and his brother witnessed as children that, in his words, 'no human should ever see'?
This suspenseful courtroom drama features small-town lawyer Jake Brigance, main character in Grisham's first novel, A Time to Kill, and similarly centers on issues of race. Gripping & compelling!
My full review & a sample of the audio:
https://bookbybook.blogspot.com/2022/09/fiction-review-sycamore-row.html
My full review & a sample of the audio:
https://bookbybook.blogspot.com/2022/09/fiction-review-sycamore-row.html
This was classic Grisham and I enjoyed how he tied in characters from previous novels.