5. I would give Inherit the Wind a very good review. It was easy to imagine for me. I could picture the setting perfectly, time and place, and I was able to picture the characters. I like reading books that are written in play-format, it adds to the drama of it. It’s a show, don’t tell type of thing. There isn’t a narrator to tell you that, “it was so silent you could hear feather drop” or “you could cut the tension with a knife.” Instead you pick up on everything through the intensity in the dialogue between the characters. One of my favorite things about the story is the ending. I love how Cates would have been able to get off with a 100 dollar fine. I find it ironic because the whole story is leading up to whether or not Drummond will be able to win the case. Because of this you are led to believe that the stakes are so high, when in the end it wasn’t really that bad of a punishment. When I was reading it I was thinking that he would be sentenced to death maybe, but instead he got a minor fine. I didn’t really like the romance between Cates and Rachel though. Even though it’s supposed to be a forbidden love type of thing, I just didn’t really find it necessary to the overall arc of the story.