Reviews tagging 'Excrement'

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

6 reviews

gcwolf98's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Excrement, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail

Content is put in a very informative way. I appreciated it was not glorifying the tragedy.

lpython's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Excrement, Cannibalism, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail

evefinn06's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail

furiouskitten's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional informative medium-paced

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I enjoyed it, even though the content itself is very rough, especially once you're about 40% of the way through the book. 

The book follows Sarah Graves, eldest daughter of the Graves family, who were Illinois farmers who ended up traveling with the Donner party even though they were not initially part of that group. Sarah ends up as part of the group that makes their way out of the mountains to try and get help. 

This seems to be a very well researched narrative of what happened, and certainly very detailed.

Maybe a little too detailed if you're squeamish.

Content warnings: it's about the Donner party, so if you're unfamiliar with that (like one of my Gen Z coworkers) do a quick Wikipedia read to educate yourself before you read this book. It definitely got a little graphic at times. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Cannibalism

Moderate: Body horror, Violence, Excrement, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

lisettemarie's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative sad tense

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Blood, Excrement, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Abortion

thehappylittleelf's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark slow-paced

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This is the definitive account of the Donner Party, covering events that lead up to the tragedy, and the aftermath of the tragedy. It is thoroughly detailed and kept my attention the whole way through. I felt a lot for Sarah and Jay through the whole thing; what they all went through is horrifying, but it's also a good lesson in how greedy grifters might be one of the most destructive forces in society. Always suspect those whose motives are making a buck.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Excrement, Murder