Book Babble: A Time To Kill

A Time to Kill is 1989 novel by John Grisham. Under normal conditions, a legal suspense thriller is not really my genre for books, way to serious and often makes my head throbbing try to apprehending it but still just this one moment I challenge myself to read this book. Just think that I need to upgrade my reading material from children-and-young-adult-books-easy-difficulty to another, thriller-and-classic-hard-difficulty kind of book. We need to level up right?.

Set in 1984, the story takes place in the fictional town of Clanton, Mississippi. It begins when two drunken white men rape a young black girl. The girl’s father, Carl Lee drank in revenge, vows to kill those rapist despite the fact that both men being put on charge for their crime. While being lead into holding from their bond hearing, he kills both men with an M-16. 

Carl Lee is charge with capital murder. After all, he did it in the open and in the full view of the town. A young white lawyer, Jake Brigance, a family friend of Carl Lee, decides to take on this case, as a favor to the family and an understanding as a father. It’s almost an impossible task with a constant threat to take Jake’s life and family. 

I never read John Grisham’s novel before but this one is full of emotion, enough to make me finish this book with curious. Some people review this book as redundantly descriptive, like he put his greatest effort into writing. Well, as his first novel and after being rejected by many publishers, I personally give a thumb for this bestseller novel as it didn’t disappointing or even scaring me to start reading this kind of book. Glad I picked this book as my first try. Next, I’m looking forward for some Charles Dicken’s classic. Great Expectations? A Tale of Two Cities? Bring them in!