Reviews tagging 'Racism'

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

234 reviews

prettiestwhistles's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Racism, Emotional abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Hate crime, Racial slurs, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Blood, Grief, Medical content, Death of parent, Violence, Confinement, and Child death

Minor: Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Car accident

aliasinferno's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Murder, Racism, and Violence

mabechel's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious sad tense slow-paced

3.25

It's an important part of history that I enjoyed learning. I mostly docked stars because the pacing was unnecessarily nonlinear in some parts, which made it more difficult to follow. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Hate crime, and Murder

Minor: Alcohol

sixtimes's review against another edition

dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

Incredibly informative and powerful. The author was able to make his technical writing concise in a way that made it easier for me to understand than many nonfiction books I have tried to read. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation, Racism, and Murder

river23's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

3.25

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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. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racism, Murder, and Grief

lindsdavis's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Violence, and Murder

burnourhistory's review against another edition

informative sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Medical content, Colonisation, Death of parent, Violence, Genocide, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Gun violence

joshkiba13's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious sad slow-paced

4.0

What a tragic story---a real story. I studied and did a project on the Osage nation for school, then saw Scorcese's film Killers of the Flower Moon, which inspired me to read the book. There was so much information; the way Grann was able to stitch everything together into a cohesive story was impressive. Getting to the end and seeing how many people came together to cover up crimes was heartbreaking. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Gore, Hate crime, Racism, Terminal illness, Death, and Murder

amberspej's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Racism, and Murder