Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride by Daniel James Brown

42 reviews

courtney_g's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism

Moderate: Violence, Murder, War

cveeders's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Cannibalism

reverenddustbunny's review against another edition

4.25

dark informative reflective sad slow-paced

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Exemplary work of explorative non-fiction

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Cannibalism, Colonisation

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Death, Gore, Racism, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail

coyote__teeth's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark informative slow-paced

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sometimes I struggled to read non-fiction, but this book provided visually descriptive commentary and tangents about what society was like in order to make it all seem so much more real. Well-researched and well-written. If I could change anything, I just wish there was a map included. The Donner Party cover so much ground and I was losing were they were at times, so I read the book with a map on google open. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Cannibalism

kpeps's review against another edition

4.25

dark informative tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Medical content, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Slavery, Violence, Grief, Fire/Fire injury

peppermint_pink's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous reflective tense slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Death, Violence, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Abandonment, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Gore, Mental illness, Torture, Xenophobia, War

mondovertigo's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Racism, Violence, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment

Moderate: War

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Suicidal thoughts

growlingpuppy's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark informative reflective tense fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Classism

purplediva1's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Cannibalism

Moderate: Death, Colonisation

angelfireeast24's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Racism, Violence, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment

Moderate: Gun violence, Xenophobia, Pregnancy, War, Classism

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail