I had read another book about this escape. I can truly say, this book was the better of the two. I read more in this book as far as details, than in the other book. If I had to recommend a book on this escape, this would be the one I would suggest. Thanks to NetGalley, the author and the publisher for the ARC of this book in return for my honest review. Receiving the book in this manner had no bearing on my review.

This book had one of the best openings! it really dragged me in and made me continue reading for a while.
sadly that drizzled off rather quickly when the author decided to begin dragging out specific parts of the story.
Its a good book, but not on the best non fictional works i read and defiantly for specific readers with how the author choose to write it!

This book is about the prison break out at Dannemora, NY from the Clinton Correctional Facility. The book was really interesting and hard to put down. Very well researched, it was hard to break away from. I wanted to know what happened next, page after page. I loved it! I really like the way it was written and the time and effort that went into researching this escape. I highly recommend this book.

I really enjoyed this book. It kept my interest from beginning to end. I had heard on the news about this prison break and was anxious to read the full story and find out how and why it ended the way it did. Would recommend.

Thanks so much to NetGalley, Diversion Books, and Chelsia Rose Marcius for the opportunity to read and review this book.

While probably most of the country is familiar with the subjects of this book - two escaped convicts from a maximum security prison in Upstate New York - the telling of this story really pushed this into a great read. I was thoroughly impressed by the author - a New York Times columnist - and the drive to be as accurate as possible in the telling of this story. Where there were two conflicting stories from different sources, she stated that and didn't push the story one way or the other. It would have been so easy to write a different book, glomming onto the tale that the prison seamstress wanted her husband killed. Maybe yes, maybe no. But the facts were put out as they were known period. The background into David Sweat was also interesting - not for excusing any of his behavior but just for clarity and understanding.

It certainly took me back to the weeks that these two criminals were on the loose. Living just a couple hours south in the southern foothills of the Adirondacks, a remember the constant media coverage and general fear that gripped this part of the country especially.

Bravo for a well-researched, well-written account!

Well written, couldn't put it down. It's nice to come across a true crime book that doesn't read like a dry history text. You can tell the author put many hours into research and development of her sources, and cares about the story.

I thoroughly enjoyed this fairly fast read about the escape of two men who used a female prison employee to help them break out from Clinton prison in upstate New York. The book eventually came to be written much afterward by the author with the help of one of the escapees who survived it. It is exciting, filled with inside details that could only be told by one who was there from the beginning and made it through the entire ordeal. It's perfect for the true crime reader who enjoys non-fiction narratives and may remember some of when this story was in the headlines involving a married female employee that was charged in the escape plot who was also caught.

An advance digital copy was provided by NetGalley, Chelsia Rose Marcius, and Diversion Books for my honest review. The publication date is Feb. 13, 2018

Marcius’s Wild Escape has the elements of a good true-crime book. The author effectively shows us the escape from every participant's point of view: law enforcement, the criminals, the politicians, and the community.
The pacing and organization of the book is well thought out. Marcius quickly sets up the the men's escape, and then their time as fugitives is woven with telling background information.
I would recommend this book to anyone interested in true crime and our nation's prison system.

I liked how although this book is based on real events, it is set out to be like an informative story. I have read others that are more purely informative and these ones have bored me, so it was a relief to find a book that I could learn from whilst also enjoy (as I'm very much into crime.) I hadn't actually heard of this prison escape before, although not sure why. I wonder if it's due to the fact I live in England, as it wouldn't have really affected us over here or maybe it's the fact I don't read newspapers or watch The News. The personalities of the two escapees was shown really well and I enjoyed following them on their escape. I also felt a lot of sympathy for Sweat - from reading this you can see that he's not a bad guy, he just made very bad choices and although I knew he was recaptured before reading this, I may at times have been silently hoping for him to make it. I'm glad that other people involved were also written about to give you the whole story but in the sense of purely the information you need, which was cut precisely before it would have started to get boring.

Fascinating and intriguing, this book kept me riveted to the very end. Though you read about it in the news, this told the story you didn't get to hear.
Great book.
Thanks to author, Diversion Books and NetGalley for the chance to read this book. While I got the book for free, it had no bearing on the rating I gave it.