Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

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

2 reviews

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

beklovesbooks's review

dark mysterious slow-paced

3.75

Really interesting investigation of a part of American history I had never heard about. Well-researched. So many names it was sometimes difficult to track. Eye-opening to the blatant injustice and racism directed toward Native Americans 100 years ago. If you don’t know about the oil that made many Osage wealthy, check into it! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Racism

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Death

Minor: Hate crime, Child death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Alcohol, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, and Suicide attempt

Some dead body descriptions were a little too much for me and there were several. So much racism and death!