Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

Hello my lovely readers! I finally got around to reading this book after buying it in 2015! Let's get into it.

SYNOPSIS
Go Set a Watchman is Harper Lee's earliest known novel. Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014, and is now published for the first time. Written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman is set during an era of rapid change and significant progress in Civil Rights legislation, and it engages with questions of racial equality and justice that are still at the forefront of our national conversation.

MY THOUGHTS
Sigh. This book was not good. I recently re-read To Kill A Mockingbird and it was beautiful. I absolutely loved that book.

This book right here? Nah. Sometimes rediscovered manuscripts are better left being unpublished. Think about it, the author is deceased with no input on the matter, there were probably still several edits that needed to take place, the author could be a perfectionist and unhappy with a first draft or unfinished draft being made public.

Now, Lee was still alive when this book was published. It's now understood that this was an early draft of To Kill A Mockingbird rather than its sequel. However, it's still regarded as a sequel. There was a lot of skepticism and criticism abound that Lee was not in her right mind when this was published and that her publishers were taking advantage of her.

In other words, a possible cash grab?

This read like an early draft. There was no depth, no plot and in my opinion, lots of rambling. It was primarily rantings about Black people and flashbacks to Jean Louise's life. 

I'm mad I read this. Maybe I should re-read her first (and only!) novel to cleanse my mind because I couldn't get enough of it.