Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Wager by David Grann

115 reviews

sara_o's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark informative sad tense fast-paced

4.0

A super fast, harrowing read about the doomed voyage of The Wager.   I enjoyed the wealth of information and was swept along in the story.  These men were making doing their best to make decisions in absolutely horrific circumstances where there are no good choices and there is no clear "moral" avenue.  

Overall, a super interesting read.

Note: This was read for Popsugar Reading Challenge "A book about Pirates", though... I would classify this as more "pirate adjacent".  No actual pirates here.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, Murder, and War

meascorner's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

3.0

Started out a bit boring but got interesting. It was shorter than I thought because there was a lot of authors notes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Blood, and Cannibalism

prettiestwhistles's review against another edition

adventurous informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Murder, Abandonment, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Child death, Racism, Slavery, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Colonisation

tobias_ewing's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense medium-paced

3.5

A gritty and realistic view of life at sea, the book just can't seem to break out of the constant slog of despair. Interesting, but ultimately difficult to consume and not one I'd jump to revisit anytime soon.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Murder

schausjk's review against another edition

adventurous informative tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Animal death, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Child death, Cursing, Genocide, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Sexual violence, Cannibalism, Death of parent, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

elhein's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

3.5

Well written and easy to get into it. I felt it had a nice balance of historical facts while also getting to know the people and what took place.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Death

Moderate: Cannibalism

sharkfan's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Confinement, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Cannibalism, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death

shelbert's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.75

This book was very good, it took me forever to read, but I also don’t typically read these types of books. It was fascinating to see into the past and how grim life really was back then. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Violence, Murder, Abandonment, and War

Minor: Alcoholism, Slavery, Cannibalism, Sexual harassment, and Colonisation

beistelltischchen's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, and Medical content

megnut's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Abandonment

Moderate: Animal death, Cannibalism, and Murder