Review: Honor Bound: My Journey to Hell and Back with Amanda Knox by Raffaele Sollecito and Andrew Gumbel

Title: Honor Bound: My Journey to Hell and Back with Amanda Knox
Authors: Raffaele Sollecito and Andrew Gumbel
Publisher: Gallery Books
Publication Date: September 18, 2012
Edition: ebook (288 pages)
Categories: Nonfiction, Autobiography, True Crime

Honor Bound: My Journey to Hell and Back with Amanda Knox by Raffaele Sollecito

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Honor Bound is a true crime story that reads like fiction. Amanda Knox, an American college student studying in Italy, and Raffaele Sollecito, her Italian boyfriend, found themselves wrongly accused of murdering Meredith Kercher, one of Amanda's housemates. As a result of their conviction, each spent four years in an Italian prison.

This book details their unbelievable journey through the Italian justice system, the prosecutorial indiscretions and fabrication of evidence, and the Knox and Sollecito families fight for the release of Amanda and Raffaele.

I followed this case and the media sensation it generated, and have read a few other related books. What sets this book apart, for me, is its candor, forthrightness and detail.