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janetl69 's review for:
Sycamore Row
by John Grisham
Have you ever been gone from home for a long period of time (away for college or a semester abroad) and when you return home you find the people & places that you missed are right where you left them and you instantly feel like you fit back into a puzzle that you didn't know you were part of? That's how I felt when I started this book. A Time To Kill has always been my favorite John Grisham book and him coming back around to write a new story with some of the same characters we love from ATTK just brought me home.
I will admit that there are some parts that are boring and slow and full of legal jargon (his books are like this), but that doesn't mean the story is. There is a difference with this vs ATTK (not just the civil vs criminal aspect), but because in ATTK you did not know how it was going to end until the verdict was read. In this one, I started to suspect the "why" a little over half-way through and by the time that the surprise witness showed up, I pretty much knew the "why", I just didn't know how it was going to turn out in the end.
The only thing that kept throwing me off was that ATTK was first published in 1989 (I read it in the mid 90s) and Sycamore Row was published in 2013 (24 years apart) and yet the events of Sycamore Row were only 3 years after the events in ATTK so I had to keep reminding myself that Jake & Co were not 24 years older, but only 3.
I love John Grisham's books that are set around the law and years ago it's what made me want to go to law school, so I understand a lot of the legal terms and can figure out where a case is going over the course of the story. I understand that this will bore other people to tears, but not me and I'll keep reading these as long as he keeps writing them.
I will admit that there are some parts that are boring and slow and full of legal jargon (his books are like this), but that doesn't mean the story is. There is a difference with this vs ATTK (not just the civil vs criminal aspect), but because in ATTK you did not know how it was going to end until the verdict was read. In this one, I started to suspect the "why" a little over half-way through and by the time that the surprise witness showed up, I pretty much knew the "why", I just didn't know how it was going to turn out in the end.
The only thing that kept throwing me off was that ATTK was first published in 1989 (I read it in the mid 90s) and Sycamore Row was published in 2013 (24 years apart) and yet the events of Sycamore Row were only 3 years after the events in ATTK so I had to keep reminding myself that Jake & Co were not 24 years older, but only 3.
I love John Grisham's books that are set around the law and years ago it's what made me want to go to law school, so I understand a lot of the legal terms and can figure out where a case is going over the course of the story. I understand that this will bore other people to tears, but not me and I'll keep reading these as long as he keeps writing them.