![]() Near the end, he actually writes “As seasoned lawyers, they should have known better than to plan the rest of the trial” which is such a huge dun dun DUNNNN.Įssentially, the plot is that an old man who is estranged from his family commits suicide, leaving all of his sizable estate to a black housekeeper he had only known for 3 years. He engages in a lot of telling rather than showing, which is not only a good rule for visual entertainment, but is also good with books. It was liberally sprinkled over A Time To Kill, but Sycamore Row is much more reigned in. ![]() One of the biggest differences I noticed was a huge lack of the n-word. Several of Grisham’s writing “tics” are present here as they were in the first novel, but not as overused. It only begins to get interesting when there is a BIG SECRET. It answers a lot fewer “big questions” (is it okay to take the law into your own hands, etc), and becomes mired in a somewhat boring dispute over an estate. ![]() Part of that is the overall plot is just not as attention-grabbing as the plot to A Time To Kill. The writing style between this and A Time To Kill are very similar, but Sycamore Row is so much more polished, if a little less interesting. ![]()
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