Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

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

111 reviews

amygibbs's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative tense medium-paced

4.0

This book seemed well researched and the story was very interesting.   Made me wonder what I would have done in those circumstances...probably died in fairness.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Death

ktdee9's review against another edition

informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Animal death, and War

cait's review against another edition

adventurous informative mysterious sad slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Blood, Medical trauma, Pandemic/Epidemic, War, Xenophobia, Alcohol, Violence, Vomit, Torture, Abandonment, Animal death, Excrement, Gore, Ableism, Confinement, Classism, Murder, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Colonisation, Death, Medical content, Body horror, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Animal cruelty, Cannibalism, Child death, Chronic illness, Grief, Hate crime, Mental illness, and Slavery

xenlinde's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

withoutfeathers's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War, Racism, Animal death, Violence, and Slavery

mateogaleano's review against another edition

adventurous informative tense fast-paced

3.75

After reading Killers of the Flower, I had to pick up this book (from Target). Like KOTFM, The Wager weaves the collected facts into a captivating narrative. Enjoyed this book. Worst part was the dog. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death

abicaro17's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark informative inspiring mysterious slow-paced

4.0

This starts out incredibly slow but after chapter 5 grows into a story of mutiny, murder, and survival. You become involved in this insane story of how a British ship and its sailors fight off scurvy, the rough seas, and other crewman to eventually end up back in England depleted and desolate anywhere from a year to five years later. I'm traditionally cautious of non fiction historical books because I find them tedious and boring but, with The Wager, once the initial accounts of send off and troubles at sea are finished, you're immersed into a tumultuous account of the shipwreck. It was interesting and full bodied. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Chronic illness, Abandonment, Colonisation, Confinement, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicidal thoughts, Violence, War, Animal cruelty, Child death, Death of parent, Deportation, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Slavery, Suicide, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Classism, Grief, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Racial slurs, Racism, Religious bigotry, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Physical abuse, and Toxic friendship

miriam_in_life's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative mysterious tense fast-paced

4.5

I almost never read nonfiction because it drags too much but apparently this is what I was looking for! It reads like a documentary with a super good narrator. I had a really good time with it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation and Death

Moderate: Cannibalism, Gun violence, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Grief, Gore, Murder, and Violence

Minor: Slavery

hmmclean's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cannibalism

Minor: Animal death and Animal cruelty

aryabunny's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative sad tense medium-paced

4.0

I liked how informative this was about the HMS Wager. It did get very dark at times. I included some of the content warnings below, but there are many more than just that. Those were the major ones to me, specifically the killing and eating of a pet dog. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War, Vomit, Slavery, Animal death, Cannibalism, and Violence