Reviews tagging 'Racism'

The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party by Daniel James Brown

12 reviews

daishaspencer's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This is one of the most gut wrenching and horrific stories I’ve read. I found myself moved to tears many times placing myself as a young woman in the shoes of Sarah and her companions. The author wrote beautifully of the scenery in which the party found themselves, I could clearly see places I’ve never been (though I had to reference google maps a handful of times). This story is not without bias from the author, but no narrative non-fiction truly can be. This book has left me with a lasting impression of a story which I knew little about before. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Misogyny, Gore, Body horror, Animal death, Murder, Child death, Chronic illness, Grief, Death of parent, Death, Slavery, Panic attacks/disorders, Classism, Racism, Blood, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexism, Gun violence, and Injury/Injury detail

sare1125's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Cannibalism, Gun violence, and Violence

Moderate: Murder and Racism

Minor: Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, and War

elfsteel's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Colonisation, Cannibalism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Child death, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Racism

I’ve tagged this book as having graphic eating disorder content because there’s no better content warning tag in the system. This book may be triggering to those who have eating disorders due to graphic descriptions of starvation and the physical and mental effects of it.

lordofharrenhal's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Cannibalism, and Murder

dustghosts's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Death, Animal death, and Cannibalism

Moderate: Abandonment, Gore, Racism, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

kathleenwho's review against another edition

dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

For a historical non-fiction book (I usually find these quite dry and difficult to finish), this is really beautifully and skillfully written despite the horrible subject matter, and compassionate about the people involved and history in general. Way too many people involved to follow easily (not the author's fault) - keep a note of who's who! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Colonisation, Medical trauma, Child death, Cannibalism, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Murder, and Racism

reverenddustbunny's review against another edition

dark informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.25

Exemplary work of explorative non-fiction

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Colonisation, and Cannibalism

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Gore, Blood, Racism, Animal death, Death, and Violence

mondovertigo's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cannibalism, Death, Murder, Abandonment, Racism, Animal death, Death of parent, Grief, Blood, and Violence

Moderate: War

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Adult/minor relationship

angelfireeast24's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Animal death, Blood, Cannibalism, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Murder, Racism, Violence, Abandonment, and Ableism

Moderate: Pregnancy, War, Classism, Gun violence, and Xenophobia

Minor: Injury/Injury detail and Fire/Fire injury

lelyreads's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Abandonment, Child death, Death of parent, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Cannibalism, Death, Gore, and Grief

Moderate: Animal death, Murder, Colonisation, and Racism

Minor: War, Confinement, Genocide, Infidelity, Alcohol, Misogyny, and Pregnancy