This score doesn't work very well relatively. Am I saying this book deserves just one star less than Mockingbird, a veritable classic? No. But I am saying that 3 feels like it would be ripping it off given the amount of joy it brought me, &, by Goodreads criteria, I did really like it. 
 This book is... what people say it is. It may be closer to an original draft than the masterpiece a budding writer imagines their work to be, but so what? It's the draft of a tremendous writer, & I'm pretty sure it has been edited for publication. It doesn't really read like a draft - it's just not as good as it might have been. & what do we have to fear? It will ruin Lee's canon? She who has only published one book? People interested in censorship are some of my most constant & laughable enemies. The goddamn state government launched an investigation into this, speaking to Lee herself, & decided she didn't publish this under duress. Maybe the reason she took so goddamn long to publish another book is because she knew assholes would sit around sniffing miserably at it because it wasn't To Kill a fucking Mockingbird. Whatever. I really enjoyed this book. I wish there was four more like it.