A review by maggieparedesauthor
Framed by Jim McCloskey, John Grisham

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.5

This book has several interesting cases that I found myself going down the rabbit hole with. Most of the cases were unknown to me before this book, which is always exciting. The topic of real people who were wrongly convicted is something that the True Crime literature world has yet to see...until now. Also, the authors, John Grisham, and Jim McCloskey, do a fabulous job of providing detailed evidence and making the case for innocence of the men and women highlighted in the pages of this book. 
One of my letdowns was when Grisham calls someone “mentally retarded” — that is not an appropriate label for someone with a mental disability or lower IQ. The new and more appropriate label would be “intellectually disabled.” In my opinion, this piece of the book needs to be altered to reflect a more kind verbiage.
Another thing that was disappointing was that towards a the end of the book, I did feel like there was too much evidence and the book could have been a lot shorter if paragraphs were cut down.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail