A Time to Kill

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Summary: Good legal drama but not Grisham's best.
Review: The story in this first novel from John Grisham has enough clichés that the reader knows very early the book's conclusion. Despite appearing at first to be Matlock-type story, there's enough action in both the main and side plots to keep the pages turning. The author clearly knows the rural South. One complaint about this and all Grisham's book is when the plot is over the ends very suddenly. The rush to end leaves several side-plots unresolved or poorly resolved.

Rating:
Summary: Very direct
Review: This book takes a very direct and open position on race and if a black man has the same right as a white man has. I randomnly picked this book out without really knowing what it was about, but I am glad I got it. It's worth it and you'll read through it quickly.

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Summary: A Time To Kill
Review: This is one of the best books I have read! It was a book I was assigned in school and I could not put it down. After reading To Kill A Mockingbird the book seemed even better. The characters were well developed and the book was really believeable.
A Time To Kill is the story of Jake Brigance trying to defend Carl Lee Hailey after Carl Lee killed the two rednecks that raped his daughter. Carl Lee was black.
I liked this book because it showes how a father will do anything for his daughter even if it means going to jail, how people care more about what colour someone is then if they really are guilty or innocent, and how even when you think that you are defented you just have to carry on.
I recommend this book to anyone who likes law novels and John Grisham. Also to anyone who is trying to understand more about racism towards black people in the Southren United States.