Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

38 reviews

randisworld's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.0

This is an incredible story about how greed of white immigrants caused the deaths of so many Osage people. It’s a disgusting honestly but a very necessary read. There is so much hidden in American history and I am thankful that this story came to light. My only criticism was in the structure. The 2nd section, to me, could have just been a separate book. Trying to integrate the founding of the FBI into this didn’t work for me. So I gave it 4 stars. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Toxic relationship, and Hate crime

Moderate: Misogyny, Murder, Violence, Alcohol, Child death, and Suicide

The behavior of these men is truly disgusting. I was happy to see that Wikipedia has them characterized as serial killers. That’s exactly what it was.

saroreen's review against another edition

emotional informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Violence, Toxic relationship, Racism, Suicide, and Murder

hanhantap's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Toxic relationship, Gun violence, Racism, Murder, Violence, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, and Torture

Moderate: Grief, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Terminal illness, and Addiction

rochelleisreading's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Gun violence, Drug abuse, Death of parent, Child death, Racism, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Classism, Stalking, Hate crime, Chronic illness, and Car accident

mblanke's review against another edition

dark informative sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Hate crime, Xenophobia, Gun violence, and Alcohol

lorenag5's review against another edition

challenging dark informative mysterious sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Hate crime, Murder, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Car accident, Chronic illness, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Blood, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Colonisation, Genocide, Gun violence, Medical content, Rape, and Sexism

annaheist's review against another edition

challenging informative mysterious sad medium-paced

4.5

This book is hefty, in terms of historical information, and is not the style of book I would typically pick up to read.  But after hearing the plot of the movie coming out later this year, I was fascinated by this true story and had to know Grann’s account.  Kind of surprisingly, the story gripped me from start to finish; it is one that left me thinking about it from the moment I put the book down to when I picked it up again.

All of this being said, I can understand that this style of writing may not be for everyone.  There were a LOT of people introduced throughout the book.  I appreciated that Grann seemed to acknowledge that fact by continually reintroducing characters whenever they resurfaced in the narrative, sometimes by a very brief synopsis of the aforementioned events with which they were associated.  Even with these helps, I had to flip back and forth on occasion, and sometimes had to reread paragraphs to regain my attention.  I’m grateful I consumed this in print, rather than via audiobook, and would recommend other readers do the same (unless they have an exceptional memory).

This is an important piece of American history.  The way Grann laid out the story had me wanting to know more and more, and he delivered.  I know I will be thinking about this account for a long time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Murder, and Toxic relationship

kat_rowlen's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious tense medium-paced

3.5

Very informative and interesting! It read like a thriller and I loved the pictures 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Hate crime, Murder, Car accident, Toxic relationship, Addiction, and Alcoholism

suzydunk's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious sad fast-paced

5.0

This nonfiction book reads like a novel and is hard to put down. It is a well-researched and well-written account of a period in history most people know little to nothing about. Just when you think it’s over, it’s not. The many actual photos are key, and I highly recommend this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cultural appropriation, Death, Death of parent, Hate crime, Murder, Genocide, Racial slurs, Racism, Colonisation, Physical abuse, Blood, Toxic relationship, and Forced institutionalization

greatexpectations77's review against another edition

challenging dark informative mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

4.75

Y'all WHAT. How did I never hear about this??? (Which is rhetorical because obviously the essentially genocide of the Osage would of course not be covered in my white history classes.) I'll definitely be revisiting this book because a lot of the sentiment toward Native people still exist today and we need to be much more aware of the total destruction that racism can cause. God. If this was a novel, I would have a hard time believing it. It's that intricate and horrific. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Xenophobia, War, Violence, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Gun violence, Murder, Alcohol, Misogyny, Chronic illness, Death, Gaslighting, Gore, Bullying, Classism, Colonisation, Emotional abuse, and Death of parent

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Toxic relationship, Child death, Stalking, Addiction, Pregnancy, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Kidnapping, Medical content, Alcoholism, and Car accident