Since this book came out less than a month ago, DON'T KEEP READING if you want to read the book and don't want it totally ruined for you.
Last warning. Don't ruin the book for yourself!
I didn't like this book. The thing that I liked most about Atticus, the idealistic man in "To Kill a Mockingbird" who was a champion for equality no matter what, turned out to be a farce. He is actually just as racist as the other Southern men in the 1950's. He explains to Jean Louise (who no longer goes by "Scout") that that's how it always was, she just hadn't noticed it. In addition, the racial tensions in Maycomb seem to be getting worse. Even her old housekeeper, Calpurnia, seems to be indifferent towards her. To make matters worse, Jem is dead. Just dead.
Sooooo, basically Jean Louise comes back from New York to find out that the world as she knew it had been turned upside down and she was the only one stuck in the past. I think it was well written as a book, I just hated that the society I loved reading about in the last book turned out to be untrue.
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