Joan S. reviewed Sycamore Row (Jake Brigance, Bk 2) (Audio CD) (Unabridged) on + 22 more book reviews
This is a great book. It keeps you guessing up until the very end. The man who read the book did an excellent job. I highly recommend it!
Maggie M. -
I enjoyed the tap dancing of the legal system this book portrays. I have no idea if it is really like this, but I can only imagine that it is, if not worse. From the underhanded games the lawyers play to the egotistical judge who has a God complex; it all makes for a good story. While it did run on a little longer than I think is necessary to get the story across to the reader, all-in-all, it was a pleasant read.
Eadie B. (eadieburke) -
Book Description
John Grisham takes you back to where it all began . . .
John Grisham's A Time to Kill is one of the most popular novels of our time. Now we return to that famous courthouse in Clanton as Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial-a trial that will expose old racial tensions and force Ford County to confront its tortured history.
Seth Hubbard is a wealthy man dying of lung cancer. He trusts no one. Before he hangs himself from a sycamore tree, Hubbard leaves a new, handwritten, will. 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.
The second will raises far more questions than it answers. 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?
In Sycamore Row, John Grisham returns to the setting and the compelling characters that first established him as America's favorite storyteller. Here, in his most assured and thrilling novel yet, is a powerful testament to the fact that Grisham remains the master of the legal thriller, nearly twenty-five years after the publication of A Time to Kill.
My Review
I listened to the book on audio and found the reader to be very easy to listen to. This book is a follow-up on Jake Brigance from A Time To Kill. Jake is a very likable lawyer and I was glad to find out how he was doing after his last case. This book is not a continuation of his Carl Lee story but a new case of Seth Hubbard who commits suicide and leaves most of his $24 million dollars to his housemaid and not his direct family. This plot was a real page turner until the very end as they come to understand why Seth Hubbard did this. All the characters are well drawn and quite interesting. If you are a fan of A Time To Kill, I'm sure you will enjoy this one too. I would recommend this book to those who love lawyer mysteries from the old south. I look forward to reading another Grisham book very soon.
John Grisham takes you back to where it all began . . .
John Grisham's A Time to Kill is one of the most popular novels of our time. Now we return to that famous courthouse in Clanton as Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial-a trial that will expose old racial tensions and force Ford County to confront its tortured history.
Seth Hubbard is a wealthy man dying of lung cancer. He trusts no one. Before he hangs himself from a sycamore tree, Hubbard leaves a new, handwritten, will. 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.
The second will raises far more questions than it answers. 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?
In Sycamore Row, John Grisham returns to the setting and the compelling characters that first established him as America's favorite storyteller. Here, in his most assured and thrilling novel yet, is a powerful testament to the fact that Grisham remains the master of the legal thriller, nearly twenty-five years after the publication of A Time to Kill.
My Review
I listened to the book on audio and found the reader to be very easy to listen to. This book is a follow-up on Jake Brigance from A Time To Kill. Jake is a very likable lawyer and I was glad to find out how he was doing after his last case. This book is not a continuation of his Carl Lee story but a new case of Seth Hubbard who commits suicide and leaves most of his $24 million dollars to his housemaid and not his direct family. This plot was a real page turner until the very end as they come to understand why Seth Hubbard did this. All the characters are well drawn and quite interesting. If you are a fan of A Time To Kill, I'm sure you will enjoy this one too. I would recommend this book to those who love lawyer mysteries from the old south. I look forward to reading another Grisham book very soon.
