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nuttypi's review against another edition
It felt like a book report. I am not the most interested in nonfiction because it just ends up being a telling of event after event. The topic is interesting, but it did not pull me in to the characters lives.
river23's review against another edition
dark
sad
tense
medium-paced
3.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Hate crime, Racism, Colonisation, Xenophobia, Murder, Grief, and Death
Moderate: Alcohol and Gun violence
Minor: Infidelity
kcup_espresso's review against another edition
challenging
dark
informative
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
3.5
I definitely wanted to like this book more than I did. I think this story is an important one, showing just a piece of the history in which white Americans brutalized and murdered what is suspected to be hundreds of Osage people. The beginning really had me hooked, being from Mollie’s POV. But once the POV shifted away from Mollie I had a harder time focusing. I didn’t think the parts that discussed the history of the FBI were as cohesive as I would have liked, I’m not sure. I did enjoy the last third of the book of the author talking to us directly about his research. My opinion of the narrative style of each section could possibly be swayed by the different audiobook narrators as well; I loved the first narrator but didn’t love the main narrator for part two. Overall I’m still glad I read the book and learned a lot.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Racism, Murder, and Grief