Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer

159 reviews

gracielou1220's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, and Murder

kalebd_2125's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Equal parts true crime and history of religion, both themes are explored thoroughly and effectively.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Religious bigotry, and Murder

midwifereading's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.0

This book is a lot to process in relatively little time. I don't even have much to say. The brutality underscoring the whole thing is intense. 

On the one hand, I learned quite a bit about the history and founding of the LDS church, and where FLDS sects sprang from. The history alone is enough to digest, but when it's intertwined with the murder of a woman and her 15 month old baby girl...

One could almost argue that, without the extreme fundamentalist beliefs, the murders wouldn't have happened. Then again, if it wasn't FLDS, the Lafferty brothers likely would have found something else to justify their violence. We can never know what would have happened, but this book paints a vivid picture that is impossible to ignore.

TW: Some graphic violence, including sexual, is present. It includes graphic descriptions of several murders, and non-graphic but plainly explained sexual violence against women and children. It's all in a journalistic style, with stark language. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, and Violence

Minor: Cursing, Racism, and Cultural appropriation

emiliegrace's review

informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

This came to me at the apex of my current obsession and bafflement with Mormonism, so needless to say I devoured it. Even so, I think it cemented that I would likely read (and devour) anything that Jon Krakauer writes. He has such a beautifully thorough way of investigating and presenting a topic that is altogether entertaining and fascinating. It did end up being quite a bit more dense in Mormon history than I probably needed or desired, but in doing so, he certainly presents a very critical outlook on the religion and its violent and harmful nature. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Murder

Moderate: Incest, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Xenophobia, and Religious bigotry

tbd24's review against another edition

informative tense medium-paced

4.0

reread for book club, it’s so fun to see how many little details of mormon history I was told in a very different light when growing up. this book is well organized and captivating, and I feel like the author does a very good job presenting moments of faith and moments of violence and the places those two intersect in a reasonable way

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Religious bigotry, and Murder

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

vs9001's review against another edition

informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Sexism, Violence, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Blood

lauryn_with_a_y's review against another edition

dark informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Religious bigotry, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Colonisation

Minor: Suicide attempt

mint_julippe's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad slow-paced

4.5

It was a slog and it bummed me out.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Pedophilia, Religious bigotry, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Incest, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, and Colonisation

nicnocs511's review against another edition

challenging dark informative slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Murder

Moderate: Incest and Rape

robynwithay's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective tense

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Sexual assault, Religious bigotry, and Murder