Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

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

27 reviews

greatexpectations77's review against another edition

challenging dark informative mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

4.75

Y'all WHAT. How did I never hear about this??? (Which is rhetorical because obviously the essentially genocide of the Osage would of course not be covered in my white history classes.) I'll definitely be revisiting this book because a lot of the sentiment toward Native people still exist today and we need to be much more aware of the total destruction that racism can cause. God. If this was a novel, I would have a hard time believing it. It's that intricate and horrific. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Xenophobia, War, Violence, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Gun violence, Murder, Alcohol, Misogyny, Chronic illness, Death, Gaslighting, Gore, Bullying, Classism, Colonisation, Emotional abuse, and Death of parent

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Toxic relationship, Child death, Stalking, Addiction, Pregnancy, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Kidnapping, Medical content, Alcoholism, and Car accident

booknerdsinmn's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Racism, and Death

Moderate: Addiction, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Misogyny, Child death, Chronic illness, Sexism, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Cultural appropriation, and Drug use

Minor: Forced institutionalization and Child abuse

Rampant prejudice against Indigenous people

mccluskyn's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Infidelity, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Child death, Genocide, Racial slurs, Racism, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Blood, Gun violence, Colonisation, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Grief, Alcohol, Classism, Death, Drug abuse, and Drug use

cait's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Torture, Drug use, Alcoholism, Blood, Car accident, Gaslighting, Racism, Slavery, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Genocide, Grief, Kidnapping, Racial slurs, Stalking, Violence, Addiction, Abandonment, Alcohol, Classism, Colonisation, Confinement, Child death, Medical content, Murder, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

beklovesbooks's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

3.75

Really interesting investigation of a part of American history I had never heard about. Well-researched. So many names it was sometimes difficult to track. Eye-opening to the blatant injustice and racism directed toward Native Americans 100 years ago. If you don’t know about the oil that made many Osage wealthy, check into it! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Racism

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Death

Minor: Hate crime, Child death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Alcohol, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, and Suicide attempt

Some dead body descriptions were a little too much for me and there were several. So much racism and death!

wai's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Medical content, Infidelity, Colonisation, Domestic abuse, Cursing, Death of parent, Murder, Death, Alcohol, Gun violence, Genocide, Emotional abuse, Violence, Racism, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Hate crime, and Blood

nothingforpomegranted's review against another edition

dark informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

Set in Oklahoma atop the underground oil reserve that existed under the Osage territory, this true crime book follows a series of murders that compose a disturbing conspiracy that reigned and raged across the Osage community in the 1920s. A tremendously wealthy community--due in large part to the "headright" system that granted each Osage Native American a share of the oil profits--the Osage suffered a horrific series of mysterious deaths and obvious murders, beginning in 1921 and spanning several years, creating a widespread sense of paranoia and drawing in the nascent FBI. 

I loved the first section of this book, which set the scene and introduced the characters with a wonderful sense of suspense. I was fascinated by this story that I had never heard before, and I didn't want to turn the book off to go to work! However, the subsequent sections were disappointing. The second section, at least nominally, addressed the development of the FBI, as suggested in the subtitle of the book, but I found this part incredibly hard to follow and lacking in detail. Indeed, from the text of the book, it seemed that the FBI existed long before its pursuit of this case, and I didn't entirely understand the connection. The third section of the book was essentially an unnecessarily long Author's Note, reviewing Grann's research and writing process. I love Author's Notes in general, but this was a bit too much and simply established uncertainty regarding the research. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Medical content, Murder, and Toxic relationship