You need to sign in or sign up before continuing.

A review by aberthold
Free: My Search for Meaning by Amanda Knox

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I truly enjoyed reading Free by Amanda Knox.  This is less true crime and more about the life long impacts and consequences from the wrongful conviction she experienced in front of the entire world.  First, this is definitely a unique perspective.  How often are you going to get to hear someone's story that went through something so public and so media influenced? I think the author did an amazing job conveying the stress and anxiety that she experienced throughout.  This book covers a small part of the time that Amanda Knox spent in prison in Italy for a crime that she didn't commit.  But it covers the story beyond that.  The prison inflected by the media and constant paparazzi bombardment post the overturning of her conviction. This story and reflection really makes you think about how you consume and participate in social media and even news broadcast.  We are so quick to convict and the news outlets are so quick to sensationalize and hearing this from Amanda's perspective is really eye opening.  I loved to learn about her life and family outside of the 24/7 trial coverage.  I hope that people can read this story and think before they jump to conclusions and impressions about people when they see coverage on the news. 
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC in exchange for my honest opinion.  And thank you to Amanda Knox for providing this look inside her life and time beyond Perugia.