Reviews tagging 'Genocide'

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

88 reviews

jhbandcats's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

5.0

David Grann is one of our greatest nonfiction authors alive. Every topic he chooses is brought to life no matter how many years have passed since the events took place. His writing is smooth and unobtrusive, describing the past in a matter-of-fact, approachable way. If history books had been like this in high school, we’d all have gone on to be scholars. 

Killers of the Flower Moon is an especially difficult book to read, not because of the writing but because the subject is so painful. Grann documents how literally hundreds of Osage were murdered for riches in the early 20th C. As American Indians, their lives were worth less than that of dogs. An entire corrupt and venal society was arrayed against them. Well aware they were systematically being murdered, they had no recourse. The authorities, both political and legal, were complicit in the murders. No one would help save them from eradication. 

This is an excellent telling of a dark and shameful time in our history. If only this much attention had been paid a hundred years ago some of the Osage who were murdered might have lived. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Chronic illness, Classism, Confinement, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Gore, Murder, Toxic friendship, Violence, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Abandonment, Blood, and Child death

jillianselene's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Racism, Hate crime, Genocide, Child death, Colonisation, Violence, Murder, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Gore, and Forced institutionalization

tiffyd's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racism, Colonisation, Grief, Murder, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racial slurs, and Violence

Moderate: Alcoholism, Gaslighting, Child death, Classism, Death of parent, Addiction, Alcohol, and Drug abuse

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Blood, Domestic abuse, Forced institutionalization, Misogyny, and Gaslighting

apworden's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Racism, Xenophobia, Colonisation, Death, Gaslighting, Gore, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Emotional abuse, and Grief

jennswan's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Hate crime, Infidelity, Genocide, Racism, Racial slurs, and Murder

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Alcohol

kmhandy's review against another edition

dark informative sad medium-paced

4.25

A sad and fascinating telling of genocide in Oklahoma that doesn't get taught in schools.

As if displacing Indigenous people from their land wasn't bad enough, this book will open your eyes to some of the atrocities committed against Native Americans.

This book is so interesting and important. I'm usually a mystery reader and will admit that after I found out who "did it," I couldn't quite understand why there were so many more pages left to read. Hang in there until part three, which will blow your mind and bring the whole story full circle.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Colonisation, Murder, Racism, and Gun violence

fanchera's review against another edition

informative sad slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Child death, Death of parent, Genocide, Misogyny, Murder, Gun violence, Racial slurs, and Racism

lorenag5's review against another edition

challenging dark informative mysterious sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Hate crime, Murder, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Car accident, Chronic illness, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Blood, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Colonisation, Genocide, Gun violence, Medical content, Rape, and Sexism

rachbake's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Gun violence, Racism, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Death, and Gore

jeggert10's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious tense medium-paced

4.75

It’s a bit dry to start but by the time the narrative shifts to the actions of Tom White and his FBI team, I was hooked. Stranger and wilder story than fiction!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Murder, Racial slurs, Violence, Grief, and Racism