Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

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

75 reviews

hheartbooks's review against another edition

adventurous informative sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Murder, Slavery, Violence, Cannibalism, Suicide, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

ldockham's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and War

Minor: Cannibalism and Animal death

oliviamich's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative sad tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Murder

Moderate: Slavery, Abandonment, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, and War

Minor: Cannibalism, Animal death, and Sexual harassment

kcbas1's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Blood, Colonisation, Death, Xenophobia, Animal death, and War

Minor: Suicide, Racism, Cannibalism, and Slavery

daughterofatom's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative medium-paced

4.0

I enjoyed this. I appreciate the authors non judgemental perspective, never casting blame or guilt on any party, and keeps first hand accounts of native people in perspective. It's a tale of mutiny and horrible situations, but you never think "dang what a villain", you see the motivations of each party and are given ample details about the people to not just see them as pawns. They all had families at home they hoped to return to, some were on their first voyage, some were seasoned enough to doubt some choices. Great read for anyone looking to learn about 1700s seafaring, British navy shenanigans, or for folks looking for empathetic compelling tales of souls stuck in a true no win scenario 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Colonisation, and Violence

Moderate: Torture, Alcohol, Cannibalism, Injury/Injury detail, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Xenophobia, War, Gun violence, Genocide, and Animal death

Minor: Medical content, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Ableism, Classism, Excrement, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, Trafficking, and Racism

ecourtis's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Suicide, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Racism

Minor: Classism and Colonisation

erica_reads_everything's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative tense fast-paced

3.25

Story was great and very well written. Stars taken off for a few extremely graphic descriptions that I don't think were necessary to have as detailed out as they were. The graphic descriptions don't add anything to the story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Murder, Death, Gore, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Alcohol, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

shepardsolbear's review against another edition

adventurous challenging informative mysterious tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Gun violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Racism and Xenophobia

taeli's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content, Cannibalism, Colonisation, Violence, War, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Murder, Slavery, Racism, and Trafficking

kshertz's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

It’s pretty fascinating how this shipwreck went down. I can’t imagine the amount of research and work went into this! I came in with super high expectations! I learned a lot about survival and pirates that’s for sure. But it was a lot of info and I zoned out when it got into too much detail. But also I’m not extremely into pirates? It’s probably a book for those who want to know about survival and human nature when stranded

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Body horror, Gun violence, Animal death, Gore, Murder, Torture, Blood, Violence, Cannibalism, Death, and Injury/Injury detail