Amy answers “Why do you think Grisham had to go into so...”

Paula Mills asked this question about The Reckoning:

Why do you think Grisham had to go into so much detail about the war story? I don’t think it really was that relevant to the plot and was way too long and graphic. It was not his usual style and I was disappointed with the book.

Amy I think this was the book Grisham wanted to write and then around that he put his Mississippi locale and characters and of courses the lawyers. He mad…moreI think this was the book Grisham wanted to write and then around that he put his Mississippi locale and characters and of courses the lawyers. He made his war hero sympathetic until we and probably Grisham , as his story evolved, realized neither the south nor his character were that sympathetic after all(less)

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