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bashirley24's review
1.25
Moderate: Gaslighting, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Death, Grief, Rape, Torture, Alcoholism, Violence, Drug use, Murder, and Self harm
lorraine19's review
4.25
Graphic: Murder, Alcohol, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Death, Addiction, Alcoholism, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, Classism, and Grief
Moderate: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Drug abuse, Suicide attempt, Police brutality, Bullying, Death of parent, and Physical abuse
Minor: Excrement
Injustice, false conviction, manipulationcraigger's review against another edition
4.25
Moderate: Confinement and Alcoholism
Minor: Suicide attempt, Rape, Murder, and Suicidal thoughts
karlybug's review against another edition
1.75
i've never read Grisham in my life and now i don't think i ever will. this was so incredibly dry for my taste. maybe it's the unfortunate product of listening to so many of them, but i just kept thinking about how many podcasts could do this story in an absolute fraction of the time. there was so much information i didn't need OR want, but i guess that was because i was hoping for less of a story of this man's life, and more a story of the crime and subsequent arrests & whether or not they actually solved it. (i know it was about this awful thing that happened to this man, but i felt like there was TOO little focus on the actual brutal murder for my taste.)
i didn't check the publishing date until after i finished it, and it makes sense. i kept thinking it was so weird how heavy a focus there was on how much the system was designed to keep innocent men in jail, as if this were groundbreaking information. obviously, having been written literally 17 years ago, it probably was much more unknown then. but there was something about reading all of this about a white man who had quite a few issues of his own (i kept thinking, he's innocent of this crime, but he's certainly not an innocent man) that felt hollow with the understanding of how often this happens to non-white men who've done less and with less to go on. either way, though, anything calling attention to this kind of injustice is important.
Graphic: Blood, Forced institutionalization, and Murder
Moderate: Rape, Death, Alcoholism, and Physical abuse
laurengent's review
3.5
Graphic: Murder
Moderate: Rape
nerdglasses08's review
4.0
Graphic: Mental illness
Moderate: Drug abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Addiction, and Alcoholism
chacepaulson's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Alcoholism, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, and Sexual assault
speroergosum's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Murder and Rape