Reviews tagging 'Death'

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

169 reviews

sareena's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, and Murder

twistykris's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Grief, Murder, Colonisation, and Classism

Moderate: Child death, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

beetree's review against another edition

challenging dark informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racism, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Alcoholism, Confinement, and Colonisation

Minor: Child death and Antisemitism

kathmulderry's review against another edition

informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

Oh geez. Shocking, not that these evil has existed, but the depths of the evil. Grann tells the story with no holds barred. I appreciate his detail and storytelling and clear care and sorrow for the Osage people. The Reign of Terror is an important piece of American history, and I would recommend this to anyone curious about understanding what the Osage have been put through. If you struggle with non-fiction this also doesn’t have that textbook-y read to it, without watering down the info. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Violence, Grief, Murder, and Colonisation

hannahteel's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, and Murder

cnowery's review

dark emotional informative mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Racism

ryleezittlau's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racism, and Murder

blaketisdebest's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious tense medium-paced

5.0

Truly one of the best books I’ve ever read. Chronicles the grotesque history of abuse and extortion of the indigenous in the americas as a legacy that continues today. The author approaches the nonfiction tale as a narrative beyond reality by how shocking and inane the story of the Osage truly is.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

dontwritedown's review against another edition

dark informative sad tense fast-paced

5.0

I wished I had read this before I saw the film opening weekend.

Being Native and being in Indigenous spaces, this case was familiar to me, though I didn't know the full story.

While I, like many others, would have liked an Osage to tell this story, I do not have an much of a problem with Grann telling the stories. Because Grann is a journalist and stuck to the facts and acknowledged not only in the acknowledgments who he was getting these stories from throughout the book. It is refreshing to hear someone not from our community accurately portray the prejudices Natives face in the court system. He asked "would any white man at the time convict another white man for killing an Indian?" 

I highly recommend, especially if you are Indigenous and had to walk out of the movie due to the gore.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Rape, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

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

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

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

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.