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Sycamore Row (Jake Brigance, #2)
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bookshelves: legal-fiction, mystery, dark-and-heavy, drama-tearjerker, social-issues, read-and-reviewed, southern-literature, mississippi, better-or-worse-than-expected, all-different-types
Nov 17, 2016
bookshelves: legal-fiction, mystery, dark-and-heavy, drama-tearjerker, social-issues, read-and-reviewed, southern-literature, mississippi, better-or-worse-than-expected, all-different-types
“Ethics are determined by what they catch you doing. If you don’t get caught, then you haven’t violated any ethics.”
― John Grisham, Sycamore Row
Sycamore Row is an extremely well written legal thriller which, for some reason, I didn't like all that much.
Part of my problem is that while it's good, it is extremely slow moving and it did make it tough. I am a fan of Grisham but he has countless others I prefer.
The beginning was great-ending a tour de force. It was the middle that I struggled with.
I did not like it as much as A time to kill. I didn't like it as much as The Firm, The street lawyer, The Associate, etc etc. It moves at a much more leisurely pace. Slow burn kind of book.
It was nice to see Jake back again. Although this is not one of my favorite Grisham books I did not NOT like it. It gains power as it moves along. The ending was riveting. It's just that there is alot to get through to arrive at that ending.
SPOILERS:
The Ending more then made up for any quibbles I may have had. It was strong, intense and powerful.
I really seem to love almost all of Grisham's books. I keep waiting for one I will not like at all but it has not happened yet and somehow I think this is one author where that is not going to happen.
Recommended.
― John Grisham, Sycamore Row
Sycamore Row is an extremely well written legal thriller which, for some reason, I didn't like all that much.
Part of my problem is that while it's good, it is extremely slow moving and it did make it tough. I am a fan of Grisham but he has countless others I prefer.
The beginning was great-ending a tour de force. It was the middle that I struggled with.
I did not like it as much as A time to kill. I didn't like it as much as The Firm, The street lawyer, The Associate, etc etc. It moves at a much more leisurely pace. Slow burn kind of book.
It was nice to see Jake back again. Although this is not one of my favorite Grisham books I did not NOT like it. It gains power as it moves along. The ending was riveting. It's just that there is alot to get through to arrive at that ending.
SPOILERS:
The Ending more then made up for any quibbles I may have had. It was strong, intense and powerful.
I really seem to love almost all of Grisham's books. I keep waiting for one I will not like at all but it has not happened yet and somehow I think this is one author where that is not going to happen.
Recommended.
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Reading Progress
Started Reading
January 1, 2014
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Finished Reading
November 17, 2016
– Shelved
November 18, 2016
– Shelved as:
legal-fiction
November 18, 2016
– Shelved as:
mystery
May 17, 2017
– Shelved as:
dark-and-heavy
February 18, 2018
– Shelved as:
drama-tearjerker
February 21, 2018
– Shelved as:
social-issues
April 24, 2019
– Shelved as:
read-and-reviewed
May 26, 2019
– Shelved as:
southern-literature
January 28, 2020
– Shelved as:
mississippi
June 13, 2021
– Shelved as:
better-or-worse-than-expected
February 14, 2024
– Shelved as:
all-different-types
