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3.85 AVERAGE
3.85 AVERAGE
This is probably one of my favorite Grisham books in recent years, mostly because I liked Jake Brigance as a character the first time around.
Formulaic. If you read time to kill, you know the progression of this novel, and how each turn will come. It is like driving the same route home day after day, knowing the twists and turns, hoping a little but for so,etching just a little different along the way, but it is always the same turns the same view, just colored by the seasons.
I listened to the audiobook. I recommend reading A Time to Kill before reading this. I read it many years ago (I believe it was Grisham's first book) because this book mentions many details and characters and events from the prior book. However, it is not absolutely necessary to read A Time to Kill first. My wife and I both listed to the audiobook together and she had not read the earlier book and still enjoyed the story very much.
The story will hold your interest (as most Grisham books do). It is moving and the main mystery of why Seth Hubbard made a handwritten will the day before he commits suicide (these events take place in the first chapter, so not a spoiler) is not revealed until the end of the story. The majority of the book is spent getting to know the characters and the community in rural Mississippi.
The book is narrated exceptionally well. If you have read A Time to Kill then you will absolutely enjoy this book. If you tend to like many of Grisham's legal thriller books you will also enjoy this one.
The story will hold your interest (as most Grisham books do). It is moving and the main mystery of why Seth Hubbard made a handwritten will the day before he commits suicide (these events take place in the first chapter, so not a spoiler) is not revealed until the end of the story. The majority of the book is spent getting to know the characters and the community in rural Mississippi.
The book is narrated exceptionally well. If you have read A Time to Kill then you will absolutely enjoy this book. If you tend to like many of Grisham's legal thriller books you will also enjoy this one.
I listened to the audiobook. It started off quite interesting and even exciting and then there was a long slog to the predictable end. The southern accents became very tiresome.
This wasn't worth the library fines I had to pay for returning it late, unfortunately. At heart, it's a book about a fight over the terms of a will. Not terribly stimulating on its face. The terrible secret from the past was pretty obvious, given the setting and timeframes. So all that remained was to figure out exactly how the terrible secret would tie in, and how the characters would deal with the resolution of the legal case. I don't read anything by Grisham except his lawyer books, and if this is supposed to be a more literary lawyer book...I think I've made the right call.
Pretty good book. I give it four stars b/c close to the back half / end of the book it was pretty obvious how it was about to unfold.
I really enjoyed Sycamore Row. Longer review to come soon.
Certainly held my interest. I did not find it slow - rather the story unwound in its own time. Appreciated the twist at the end.
It was long-winded ay times but the plot was captivating.