![]() ![]() In modern times, the South is misunderstood as a backwards land, completely separate from the moral fabric of modern society. I love the sensitivity and reality that Grisham paints the South with. ![]() Additionally, the Smallwood subplot did not feel fully resolved at the time of the book’s completion. This was a disappointment, yet, a validation of reality. Something must be paid for, as the society would not let things go otherwise. After all of the build up, I knew he couldn’t let the boy go free. The core moral quandary of this book would absolutely cleave a town’s morality in two. Growing up in Texas and in the Christian Bible Belt community, Grisham portrary, with sensitivity and accuracy, the attitudes that you’d find. In the case of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series, him graphically killing off the main party’s small animal companion caused me to put down the book entirely. ![]() ![]() Uniquely, I like suspenseful plots, but too much suspense or grit can cause me to put a book down. This novel, as with the first, catered to my taste for drama. This is the second novel I’ve read by him, the first being A Time to Kill. I’ve just finished A Time for Mercy by John Grisham. ![]()
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