Reviews tagging 'Colonisation'

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

16 reviews

kmaemiller's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Colonisation, Violence, and Child death

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

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.

a_beautiful_soup's review

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Cannibalism, Colonisation, Death, and Child death

amandamethot's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Death, Blood, Child death, Colonisation, Mental illness, Grief, Death of parent, Cannibalism, and Animal death

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

jaibird's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Grief

Moderate: Gun violence, Colonisation, Cannibalism, and Child death

Minor: Abortion

kpeps's review against another edition

dark informative tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Cannibalism, Medical content, Alcohol, Abandonment, Death, Animal death, and Colonisation

Moderate: Grief, Violence, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Slavery, Gun violence, and Gore

peppermint_pink's review

adventurous reflective tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Death, Cannibalism, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Child death, Abandonment, and Animal death

Minor: Xenophobia, War, Mental illness, Torture, and Gore