![]() Nat is less interesting, an overly sensitive 25-year-old academic lawyer (everyone in this book but a few walk-ons has a law degree), but he gets the girl, scooping Anna from his father. Innocent is told by four distinct, pitch-perfect voices: Sabich, his lover Anna, his son Nat, and prosecutor Molto, who comes brilliantly off the page - even though Turow has relegated this "chronically blunt personality," who would as soon dream of cheating on his wife as flying to the moon, to third-person, past-tense status. Rusty Sabich is the deputy prosecuting attorney of (the fictional) Kindle County, who comes to be accused of murdering his former colleague, Carolyn Polhemus. Presumed was written from a single point of view: the first-person, present-tense voice of Rusty Sabich. ![]() Early chapters flash back, then forward, to set the scene for the trial, which then proceeds linearly until Turow guides us through several switchbacks, a bittersweet climax and, regrettably, a laboured denouement. Simultaneously too familiar (by rehashing. The story is satisfying, an intellectual cut above many TV mysteries. Innocent is also more conceptually interesting. Critic Reviews for Scott Turows Innocent. (Sequels are easier reads, and easier to write it's not such a workout creating character - you add some intervening history, a few wrinkles and a paunch, Maybe because of the familiar themes and characters. ![]() Innocent is even more stylishly written, and despite the echoing themes and characters, I also found it more compelling. ![]()
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