This was a really tough read - not in the writing style, but in the content. The world and their cousin love To Kill A Mockingbird and this sort of... opposes a lot of the stuff in that first book. To start with, some characters we expect to be around are not, but because there has been such a time skip between the books, the other characters are more okay with that than you are.

The first half was tricky just because I wish I hadn't reread Mockingbird just before I read it, and so could have perhaps been less surprised by some of the things that were taken for granted. I then got angry, as characters which I loved let me down, but then I understood, and it was all kind of okay again.

Much like Mockingbird, if not more so, you are really taken on the journey with Scout; not only do we see what she sees and hear what she hears, but we feel what she feels, and we only understand when she understands.

So yes, a tricky read, if only because characters who I have loved for years were shown to be deeply human beings, but also an important message about conscience, morals, and, to me, how it is important that each person and each generation has their own.