Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

64 reviews

otakatoe3's review against another edition

emotional informative sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racism, Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

nrogers_1030's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense

5.0

It's one of those books you don't want to read because you know it's sad, but you know you need to. The injustice that the Osage people suffered is unimaginable. This book shines a light on Oklahoma's dark past.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Racism, Violence, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

angelie_jelly's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racial slurs and Racism

Minor: Injury/Injury detail

blaketisdebest's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious tense medium-paced

5.0

Truly one of the best books I’ve ever read. Chronicles the grotesque history of abuse and extortion of the indigenous in the americas as a legacy that continues today. The author approaches the nonfiction tale as a narrative beyond reality by how shocking and inane the story of the Osage truly is.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

dontwritedown's review

dark informative sad tense fast-paced

5.0

I wished I had read this before I saw the film opening weekend.

Being Native and being in Indigenous spaces, this case was familiar to me, though I didn't know the full story.

While I, like many others, would have liked an Osage to tell this story, I do not have an much of a problem with Grann telling the stories. Because Grann is a journalist and stuck to the facts and acknowledged not only in the acknowledgments who he was getting these stories from throughout the book. It is refreshing to hear someone not from our community accurately portray the prejudices Natives face in the court system. He asked "would any white man at the time convict another white man for killing an Indian?" 

I highly recommend, especially if you are Indigenous and had to walk out of the movie due to the gore.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Rape, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

vixenreader's review

dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.25

A non-fiction book that moves with the urgency of a murder-mystery, this account of a forgotten injustice will boil your blood, especially since the crimes were saturated with racism against the Osage First Nations. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Ableism, Child death, Infidelity, Medical content, Stalking, Car accident, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Misogyny, Physical abuse, Police brutality, and Pregnancy

Be warned that there is a graphic bombing episode, medical content involving diabetes, covering up crime scenes, frequent poisoning, financial abuse, policies preventing First Nations from accessing their accounts, court scenes, and mention of “burning human flesh” from an electric chair.

readbymadi's review

dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

leefox's review

dark emotional informative mysterious sad slow-paced

3.75

“The blood cries out from the ground.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Domestic abuse

goldstrawberry's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious sad medium-paced

4.25

This book tells the disturbing and convoluted tale of the Osage murders. It’s very informative but a little difficult for my short attention span. I finally switched it to an audiobook and finished it within a day. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Racism, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Grief, Murder, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

dev921's review against another edition

dark informative fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Alcohol, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism