Reviews tagging 'Xenophobia'

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

29 reviews

reallyitsrudi's review against another edition

challenging dark informative mysterious sad tense fast-paced

3.5

I'm glad I watched the movie first and that Scorsese focused on the Burkhart situation more than the origins of the police. the cop stuff dragged so bad for me, it's a shame the last part is so much more interesting!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Murder, Racism, and Xenophobia

miggyfool's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Colonisation, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Murder, Death, Toxic relationship, Blood, Body horror, Classism, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Genocide, Grief, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Gun violence, Medical content, Sexism, Torture, Xenophobia, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Misogyny, Toxic friendship, and Violence

tniethamer's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Xenophobia, Murder, Violence, and Hate crime

lindsayerin's review

dark informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Xenophobia, Blood, Racism, Violence, Murder, and Medical content

readwithsaray's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Xenophobia, and Racism

ambermott's review

mysterious sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Xenophobia

vixenreader's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.25

A non-fiction book that moves with the urgency of a murder-mystery, this account of a forgotten injustice will boil your blood, especially since the crimes were saturated with racism against the Osage First Nations. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Murder, Racial slurs, Racism, Toxic relationship, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Xenophobia, Colonisation, Medical trauma, Genocide, Toxic friendship, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Blood, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Gun violence, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, and Violence

Moderate: Medical content, Child death, Infidelity, Ableism, Stalking, Fire/Fire injury, and Car accident

Minor: Pregnancy, Misogyny, Police brutality, and Physical abuse

Be warned that there is a graphic bombing episode, medical content involving diabetes, covering up crime scenes, frequent poisoning, financial abuse, policies preventing First Nations from accessing their accounts, court scenes, and mention of “burning human flesh” from an electric chair.

albernikolauras's review

informative mysterious tense medium-paced

3.75

I think Grann did an excellent job setting up this book as a mystery from the point of view of the main Osage family it covered and the tragedies that followed them. If you lack knowledge in the subject (like me), you are left in suspense the entire time. The horrors of this book can't be overstated and I suspected a couple people, but not the entire plot. I also enjoyed Grann's wrap up in the end during modern day.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Xenophobia

Moderate: Murder and Death of parent

morethanmylupus's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

3.0

This has been on my TBR for years and I finally prioritized this read this before the movie came out. 

This was a hard read for a number of reasons: 
1/ The treatment of the Osage was atrocious and appalling 
2/ The book centers the white narrative as both the villains and the saviors and the 
3/ Most of the book lacks context and only fills in relevant elements of centuries of genocide, land grabs, and numerous other atrocities where the author thought they made sense

For me, too much context can be annoying, but in this case it only served to further center the white narrative and I found that frustrating. The story was still interesting and compelling to read, but I will be reading native voices on this topic to understand the complete picture. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Domestic abuse, Racism, Racial slurs, Murder, Xenophobia, and Gun violence

goldstrawberry's review

dark informative mysterious sad medium-paced

4.25

This book tells the disturbing and convoluted tale of the Osage murders. It’s very informative but a little difficult for my short attention span. I finally switched it to an audiobook and finished it within a day. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation, Death, Xenophobia, Racism, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Toxic relationship, and Murder