Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

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

24 reviews

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

vixenreader's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.25

A non-fiction book that moves with the urgency of a murder-mystery, this account of a forgotten injustice will boil your blood, especially since the crimes were saturated with racism against the Osage First Nations. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Murder, Racial slurs, Racism, Toxic relationship, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Xenophobia, Colonisation, Medical trauma, Genocide, Toxic friendship, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Blood, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Gun violence, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, and Violence

Moderate: Medical content, Child death, Infidelity, Ableism, Stalking, Fire/Fire injury, and Car accident

Minor: Pregnancy, Misogyny, Police brutality, and Physical abuse

Be warned that there is a graphic bombing episode, medical content involving diabetes, covering up crime scenes, frequent poisoning, financial abuse, policies preventing First Nations from accessing their accounts, court scenes, and mention of “burning human flesh” from an electric chair.

megboone3's review against another edition

dark informative sad slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Cultural appropriation, Genocide, Death of parent, Racism, Racial slurs, Bullying, Death, Hate crime, Murder, Classism, Emotional abuse, Grief, Violence, and Colonisation

Moderate: Gun violence

Minor: Medical trauma

hellbender's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Racism, Car accident, Gun violence, Medical trauma, Medical content, and Racial slurs

tiffyd's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racism, Colonisation, Grief, Murder, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racial slurs, and Violence

Moderate: Alcoholism, Gaslighting, Child death, Classism, Death of parent, Addiction, Alcohol, and Drug abuse

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Blood, Domestic abuse, Forced institutionalization, Misogyny, and Gaslighting

lorenag5's review against another edition

challenging dark informative mysterious sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Hate crime, Murder, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Car accident, Chronic illness, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Blood, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Colonisation, Genocide, Gun violence, Medical content, Rape, and Sexism

itsheyfay's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Gun violence, Medical trauma, Violence, Xenophobia, Genocide, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, Murder, and Racism

Moderate: Alcohol, Body horror, Infidelity, Car accident, Forced institutionalization, Ableism, Addiction, Blood, Child death, and Racial slurs

lri_reads's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death, and Racism

bethvance's review against another edition

dark informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Murder, Colonisation, Death, and Gun violence

Minor: Car accident, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Blood

xomandymoo's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Racism, Gun violence, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Medical trauma, Death, Murder, Racial slurs, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Gore