Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

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

4 reviews

dxnatelli's review

dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Child abuse, Violence, Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Death, Blood, Grief, Racism, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gaslighting, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic relationship, Gun violence, Death of parent, Hate crime, Gore, Domestic abuse, Colonisation, and Child death

Moderate: Infidelity, Stalking, Body horror, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Classism, Police brutality, and Medical trauma

Minor: Pregnancy, Suicide, Racial slurs, Sexual violence, Abandonment, and Car accident

jhbandcats's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

5.0

David Grann is one of our greatest nonfiction authors alive. Every topic he chooses is brought to life no matter how many years have passed since the events took place. His writing is smooth and unobtrusive, describing the past in a matter-of-fact, approachable way. If history books had been like this in high school, we’d all have gone on to be scholars. 

Killers of the Flower Moon is an especially difficult book to read, not because of the writing but because the subject is so painful. Grann documents how literally hundreds of Osage were murdered for riches in the early 20th C. As American Indians, their lives were worth less than that of dogs. An entire corrupt and venal society was arrayed against them. Well aware they were systematically being murdered, they had no recourse. The authorities, both political and legal, were complicit in the murders. No one would help save them from eradication. 

This is an excellent telling of a dark and shameful time in our history. If only this much attention had been paid a hundred years ago some of the Osage who were murdered might have lived. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Chronic illness, Classism, Confinement, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Gore, Murder, Toxic friendship, Violence, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Abandonment, Blood, and Child death

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

cait's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Torture, Drug use, Alcoholism, Blood, Car accident, Gaslighting, Racism, Slavery, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Genocide, Grief, Kidnapping, Racial slurs, Stalking, Violence, Addiction, Abandonment, Alcohol, Classism, Colonisation, Confinement, Child death, Medical content, Murder, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Death