Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep

4 reviews

clarabooksit's review

informative medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Racism, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Gun violence

herelieshenry's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring mysterious reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Drug abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Death of parent, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Ableism, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Homophobia, Misogyny, Slavery, Terminal illness, Forced institutionalization, Dementia, Religious bigotry, Car accident, War, and Injury/Injury detail

amandas_bookshelf's review

informative mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gun violence, Racism, Violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism and Alcohol

araeofbooks's review

dark informative mysterious medium-paced

3.5

 The premise of this book was fascinating to me. Part true crime, part literary behind the scenes of a beloved author, this had a lot of potential because it combined a lot of my interests. While I found every part of this book interesting, it didn’t feel cohesive. It felt as though I read two separate books. Part of that may be in the way the book was broken up -- it’s told in two parts, starting with the crimes of Rev. Willie Maxwell and the second part tells the story of Harper Lee, culminating in her spending time researching the alleged crimes of the reverend. By the time we got through all of Harper Lee's life and made it to her attempting to write the story of Rev. Maxwell, I forgot a lot about his story. What I will say is that the lives of both Rev. Maxwell and Harper Lee were both fascinating and worthy of storytelling. Overall I liked the book, it just felt a little disjointed.
 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Gun violence, Racism, and Murder