Reviews tagging 'Murder'

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

25 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

weboury's review against another edition

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

5.0

cccannFantastic book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Murder, Cannibalism, Child death, Colonisation, Religious bigotry, Abandonment, Confinement, and Sexism

lordofharrenhal's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Cannibalism, and Murder

rhi_reading's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Cannibalism, Animal death, Death of parent, and Murder

apersonfromflorida's review against another edition

dark informative sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, and Cannibalism

Moderate: Murder and Animal death

courtney_g's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism

Moderate: Murder, War, and Violence

smemmott's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

Listened to the audiobook. When I got to the really tragic parts, I wasn't initially sure if I would be able to continue (it's not practical to skim or skip like I might in a regular book.) But I thought the author handled the story fairly sensitively and I was glad I completed the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism

Moderate: 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