I even resisted the temptation on more than one occasion to skip sections as started repeating itself. There was no big surprise at the end which I was hoping for to bring this lackluster book up a notch, just a predictable explanation to the whole scenario.
I really didn't get to root for or even relate to Jake, and the fact that his personal life was so hidden seemed strange. I admit this is a review for the Unabridged Audible version of the book, that had some cliche Afro-American voices and all the usual redneck-ness that readers throw into Grisham's books, but the story itself was just too slow. Firstly, I didn't see why this had to be set back in the late eighties (did so many people really have car phones back then?) and although I read A Time to Kill, to which this has been dubbed a sequel of sorts, I read it more than 15 years ago and remember it being a lot better than this. For me personally, it would actually be a 2.5-star rating as Grisham's writing is commendable, but he has written so much better stuff. Now, I know I'll probably get bashed for this, but this is one boring read.
In the longawaited successor to the novel that launched his phenomenal career John Grisham brings us the powerful sequel to A Time to Kill As filled with pageturning twists as it is with legal mastery Sycamore Row proves beyond doubt that John Grisham is in a league of his own Jake Brigance has never met Seth Hubbard or even heard of him until the old mans 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 Hubbards death What made him write that lastminute 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
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