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. Why would Hubbard leave nearly all of his fortune to his maid? Had chemotherapy and painkillers affected his ability to think clearly? And what does it all have to do with a piece of land once known as Sycamore Row? The second will raises many more questions than it answers. It is an act that drags his adult children, his black maid, and Jake into a conflict as riveting and dramatic as the murder trial that made Brigance one of Ford County’s most notorious citizens, just three years earlier. Before he hangs himself from a sycamore tree, Hubbard leaves a new, handwritten will. Seth Hubbard is a wealthy man dying of lung cancer. Now we return to Ford County as Jake Brigance finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial that exposes a tortured history of racial tension. One of the most popular novels of our time, A Time to Kill established John Grisham as the master of the legal thriller. John Grisham takes you back to where it all began. Don’t miss an original essay by John Grisham in the back of the book.
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