Go Set a Watchman | Thoughts

Author: Harper Lee

Title: Go Set a Watchman

Release Date: July 14, 2015

Rating: ★★★★

Pages: 278

Format: Hardcover

Where to find it: Amazon | Goodreads | Bookdepository

Series: To Kill a Mockingbird

Summary: Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch--"Scout"--returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise's homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town and the people dearest to her. Memories from her childhood flood back, and her values and assumptions are thrown into doubt. Featuring many of the iconic characters from To Kill a Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman perfectly captures a young woman, and a world, in a painful yet necessary transition out of the illusions of the past--a journey that can be guided only by one's conscience. (goodreads)

Thoughts/Review:

This book was a short and wonderful read. I didn’t re-read To Kill a Mockingbird (TKaM) before starting this novel and in a way I wish I did. I had read TKaM in high school, it’s been almost 10 years since then. I do remember details of the book and was looking forward to reading the next stage of these characters lives. I did feel the characters felt familiar in this story. It made sense where these characters life lead to be.

I enjoying reading the novel in Scout’s perspective as an adult. The story follows very closely to where her point of views are now as an adult and how she see the world. It does reflecting to her family went through in TKaM. I did enjoy seeing the person that she became. This novel is not an insight of its previous book, its more of a book that shows where a character would go after growing up and growing up in the era they did.

I do see why some people didn’t enjoy the novel. It’s not the same as a novel that impacted so many people’s lives and continue to impact people's lives now. TKaM I believe is a timeless novel that will continue to impact people because the issues written in the novel will always be a theme in our culture. I do like GSaW because it continues to address those issues. But, I do feel that it doesn’t give the same as impact as TKaM.

I do recommend you guys do read it. I do believe that it would give a bigger impact to female readers. Really enjoyable read and I can’t wait to hear your thoughts on the novel.I am hoping to re-read TKaM soon.