Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

The Innocent Man: The True Crime Thriller Behind the Hit Netflix Series by John Grisham

4 reviews

directorpurry's review against another edition

dark informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual violence, Blood, Police brutality, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Terminal illness

carlytenille's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

loriley's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Police brutality, Grief, Suicide attempt, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

corriejn's review against another edition

slow-paced

3.25

I don't actually think I've read anything else by John Grisham, so can't compare style/voice/etc. to his novels; this one is a nonfiction true-crime/criminal justice system story. It's pretty straightforward and dry, nothing remarkable about the structure or how the events are conveyed. 

At times I found it a tad hard to keep straight who all was who (as it's mainly about one accused murderer, but also features a second main story of another person accused of a crime-- or... two other people? I legitimately never got it all fully sorted) plus just a lot of additional people (relatives, friends, lawyers, witnesses, others incarcerated with them, etc.) to keep track of. I got the sense that folks with the Innocence Project were actually fairly influential in these cases, but they were mentioned fairly in passing.

In short, it's not the greatest writing/storytelling; if you're interested in reading about miscarriages of justice or work to exonerate wrongly-convicted folks, I'm confident there exists more compelling coverage of those topics.

I was also not a fan of the amount of really ableist language the author used in regards to mental illness.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Confinement, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Self harm, Blood, Suicide attempt, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Cancer and Excrement