Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S.C. Gwynne

5 reviews

jeddicat's review

Graphic with horrific violence against women.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, War, Colonisation, Torture, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Racial slurs, Murder, Death, Child death, Genocide, Fire/Fire injury, Child abuse, Violence, Racism, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Classism, and Blood

yotchki's review

challenging dark informative tense medium-paced

5.0

Historical non-fiction that reads like a novel. As brutal and unforgiving as it’s setting

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Xenophobia, and War

Moderate: Sexual violence and Gore

lareads36's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

I can see how this popular culture book could reach more people than historical monographs. 

Overall the author recounts and makes the history come alive. At one point though, I felt he was renunerating atrocities on both sides too much.

the sixth impaled baby didn't have as much impact as the first five.

 

I will say however, I had been led to believe this was less history and more fiction. Inside not feeling that way reading it. Given my research, he glossed over a couple of points but didn't embellish. He does mention that Goodnight was the sole proprietor of the canyon when we know he was a part owner with financial backing from JA. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Slavery, Racial slurs, Miscarriage, Forced institutionalization, Murder, War, Violence, Torture, Suicide, Sexual violence, Rape, Physical abuse, Gore, Emotional abuse, Colonisation, and Child death

lawsonm's review

informative slow-paced

3.5

It was okay, I had to read it for class, and it was a topic I’m not really Interested in. There was a lot of information 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

pirateenthusiast's review

1.25

A well researched book. I learned a lot, but this is where the positives end. The language used in this book is repeatedly and horrendously racist. I'm not sure if this was the authors intention or not, but he portrays the Comanches and Native Americans as a whole as "backward stone age hunters". Gwynne claims to be providing an unbiased neutral book that shows both sides in an accurate light. He certainly succeeds in not straying away from the violence of the Comanches with his brutal and graphic descriptions, yet when he describes the violence of the other side, the terms are much more vague, giving the reader the wrong impression. Here is a list of words used in this book and the frequency that they appeared.

Native: 32
Indian(s): 1,177
Savage: 28
Primitive: 19
Redskin: 3
Squaw: 25
Indigenous: 1

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, Torture, War, Colonisation, Gore, Kidnapping, and Genocide

Moderate: Rape and Racial slurs

Minor: Animal death