Reviews tagging 'Murder'

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann

86 reviews

laura_nel13's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Physical abuse, Animal death, Gore, Medical content, Grief, Alcohol, Murder, Cannibalism, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, War, and Gun violence

Minor: Body horror, Trafficking, Confinement, Blood, Classism, Kidnapping, Suicide, Child death, Panic attacks/disorders, Colonisation, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Slavery

hannahbee_97's review

adventurous informative mysterious tense medium-paced

4.5

Really well done telling of the event from a wide variety of perspectives! I also loved the narrator’s voice!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Blood, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Medical content, Abandonment, and Murder

Minor: Animal death

waterlogged's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative tense fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Cannibalism

Moderate: Terminal illness, Murder, Medical content, and Violence

Minor: Sexual harassment and Trafficking

zeldazonks's review

challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

Manages to be incredibly compelling and informative as well as highlight the hypocrisy, cruelty and nonsensical nature of colonialism. I listened to the audiobook and the narrator was fantastic, I devoured this in two days.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Abandonment, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Death, Colonisation, and Alcohol

Moderate: Cannibalism

zsabella's review

adventurous dark informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, War, Violence, Cannibalism, Murder, Medical content, Medical trauma, Child death, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Slavery, Racism, and Animal death

sarasreading's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark informative reflective tense fast-paced

4.5

This was pretty unputdownable. So much was happening all of the time it read much more like fiction than nonfiction, which I enjoy. It can get pretty gruesome, so know that going in. It can be harder to stomach since it's a true story. But I flew through this and will definitely read more from this author. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Death

Moderate: Animal death, Colonisation, Cannibalism, and Classism

Minor: Racism, War, and Slavery

ekcd_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Child death, Death of parent, Excrement, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Police brutality, Suicidal thoughts, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Grief, Kidnapping, Slavery, Cursing, Death, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Trafficking, Violence, Medical content, Suicide attempt, War, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Confinement, Physical abuse, and Racism

seanfischer's review

dark informative mysterious sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Violence, Cannibalism, Murder, and Death

elizabeth_lepore's review against another edition

adventurous informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Death

Moderate: Colonisation and Violence

linda48's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative mysterious tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Racism, Murder, Abandonment, and Cannibalism