Reviews tagging 'Violence'

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

148 reviews

sareena's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Death, and Murder

dxnatelli's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Child abuse, Violence, Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Death, Blood, Grief, Racism, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gaslighting, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic relationship, Gun violence, Death of parent, Hate crime, Gore, Domestic abuse, Colonisation, and Child death

Moderate: Infidelity, Stalking, Body horror, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Classism, Police brutality, and Medical trauma

Minor: Pregnancy, Suicide, Racial slurs, Sexual violence, Abandonment, and Car accident

jvantland's review against another edition

dark emotional informative slow-paced

3.75

I found the writing a bit dense/dry for the first two thirds, and when I was engaged I often felt voyeuristic. I think it would have been different if the book had been written by an Osage person, or at least told in the style of the final 1/4 of the book where he heavily features dialogue with people he visited in the Osage nation. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Murder

jaydeecepticon's review against another edition

dark informative sad slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Alcohol, and Violence

Minor: Domestic abuse, Medical trauma, Sexism, and Suicide

raynie's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Racism, and Violence

kathmulderry's review against another edition

informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

Oh geez. Shocking, not that these evil has existed, but the depths of the evil. Grann tells the story with no holds barred. I appreciate his detail and storytelling and clear care and sorrow for the Osage people. The Reign of Terror is an important piece of American history, and I would recommend this to anyone curious about understanding what the Osage have been put through. If you struggle with non-fiction this also doesn’t have that textbook-y read to it, without watering down the info. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Grief, Colonisation, Death, Violence, and Murder

hannahteel's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Violence, Racial slurs, and Racism

cnowery's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Racism

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

dontwritedown's review against another edition

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