Reviews tagging 'Alcoholism'

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

58 reviews

frenchpants's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, Grief, and Murder

Minor: Alcoholism, Confinement, Physical abuse, and Stalking

nc_unknown_user's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious sad tense slow-paced

3.5

It often feels difficult or unfair to review books like these. The story is heartbreaking and to know real people experienced these things is terrible. Especially because this still probably doesn’t even cover half of it and there are so many stories that will left untold or forever unknown for many of those who were among those lost during these times. Unfortunately, the writing felt lacking in some ways. Not that I expected it to be some page-turner for my entertainment… it just felt disjointed in its presentation and hard to follow. I found it difficult to keep track of the information being presented and even now that I have finished the book, I feel like I only vaguely know what happened and how it took place. The story itself is interesting so I feel it was just the style of writing that takes away from it. It felt unnecessary to break the book up into three separate parts. All in all, I would be interested in doing more reading on this subject, but not by this author. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racism, and Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism and Alcohol

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

christinadekoek's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism

mjl2994's review against another edition

dark informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Blood, and Murder

emmaemooney's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Gun violence, Racism, Murder, and Alcohol

ashaberstroh's review

adventurous challenging dark informative mysterious sad fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide and Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism, Violence, and Colonisation

zsabella's review

challenging dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Racism, Violence, Murder, and Colonisation

Moderate: Child death, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Grief, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

mariakureads's review

dark informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Never having read anything by Grann prior, I wasn't sure what to expect, but this was highly detailed and researched with respect and truth to all parties involved.

There's a lot of missing information when it comes to Native Americans and US history-One can guess that a lot more than we probably are aware of, thanks partly to this book. I had no idea, none, that this systematic discriminations and killings were happening Oklahoma and to the Osage in such a cold blooded way until this book.

This book was so well researched that I can't imagine the years and the time needed to put this together but I was left with a lot of emotion and some questions which I'm sure Grann was too as he researched and put this together because it's oddly fascinating that this happened for as long as it did but there's really no limit to man's greed and for a lot of the guilty, their greed exceeded what I could have imagined.
This book highlights how a group of people, men and women, were able to plan and execute murders for their greed and how deep that corruption ran even as the Osage were asking and requesting for help with no avail from the government until the amount of the mysterious deaths was too much to overlook. 

I'm a ball of emotions still, hours after I finished this, to really put into words how I'm flabbergasted and tensely in awe of this because it's not just distant past. A lot of the surviving members are still having to deal with this portion of their history, in a familial and at larger community aspect, because of how deep the corruption was, that in some cases it was the different groups of the very same government meant to protect them, that were involved and that's something that is deplorable and I have a hard time trying to rationalize that.

Grann did an amazing  job of balancing historical information  and providing it such a written way that spoke of the Osage's civilization with respect to race, perspective, culture, and colonialism. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Murder, and Colonisation

Moderate: Alcoholism

alexisgarcia's review against another edition

informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Genocide, Racism, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Classism

hi_itsnatty's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

A fantastic story that is one of many on Turtle Island that needs to be consistently investigated all over. Overall, a good book to reflect and think about the stories still needing to be revisited and solved for families affected by MMIW cold cases.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail