Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

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

84 reviews

emelynreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

5.0

Empires preserve their power with the stories that they tell, but just as critical are the stories they don't- the dark silences they impose, the pages they tear out.

Scandalous, harrowing, epic. I was hooked from the start. This is a book I know I'll come back and read again and again. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Cannibalism, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Suicide and Colonisation

isaacbereading's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content

Moderate: Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death, Cannibalism, and Abandonment

zosiablue's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

4.25

I will never joke about taking to the sea ever again

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Cannibalism, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Slavery, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Racism

kimmykelly's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Abandonment, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

katiemack's review against another edition

adventurous informative inspiring medium-paced

4.5

4.5. This starts off slowly as David Grann establishes a sense of place and introduces his readers to key players, so I was a little skeptical that I would be able to follow and stay engaged. But once that ship gets moving, Grann weaves a compelling story about what happens when humans are reduced to their base instincts.

Grann relies on admittedly conflicting accounts from those on both sides (some from the mutineers, some from the captain’s final crew), but he does an admiral job balancing these viewpoints. He also adds depth to what is, essentially, a true crime story about a shipwreck by discussing the broader implications of imperialism and racism that affected not only this crew, but also other militaristic endeavors by the British.

It’s short—the story itself is maybe 250 pages—so it’s worth a read if you’re at all interested in history.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Racism and War

Minor: Cannibalism

theabee's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark informative mysterious sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness and Violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gun violence, Racism, Slavery, Cannibalism, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

maison's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Racism, Violence, Medical trauma, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Animal death, Racial slurs, and Slavery

Minor: Child death and Cannibalism

mondovertigo's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Cannibalism, Abandonment, and Colonisation

Moderate: Body horror, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Medical trauma, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Blood, Excrement, and Vomit

mariposa517's review against another edition

adventurous informative tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Excrement, Vomit, Cannibalism, Alcohol, and War

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

emily_koopmann's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark informative sad tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Racism, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail