Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

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

35 reviews

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.

goldstrawberry's review against another edition

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

melanyjve's review against another edition

challenging dark informative mysterious medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Racism, Violence, Gun violence, and Toxic relationship

atalea's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Racism, Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Murder, Toxic friendship, Colonisation, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, and Suicide

Minor: Child death and Physical abuse

kylasmv15's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative mysterious fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Murder, Toxic friendship, Addiction, Alcoholism, Violence, and Grief

Moderate: Blood, Death, Death of parent, and Genocide

Minor: Vomit

dev921's review against another edition

dark informative fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Gun violence, Alcohol, Blood, Colonisation, Death, Car accident, Cultural appropriation, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Grief, Classism, and Domestic abuse

lindseylosers's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Violence, Chronic illness, Death, Racism, Grief, Hate crime, and Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Xenophobia, Addiction, and Car accident

Minor: Animal death

randisworld's review

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.0

This is an incredible story about how greed of white immigrants caused the deaths of so many Osage people. It’s a disgusting honestly but a very necessary read. There is so much hidden in American history and I am thankful that this story came to light. My only criticism was in the structure. The 2nd section, to me, could have just been a separate book. Trying to integrate the founding of the FBI into this didn’t work for me. So I gave it 4 stars. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Toxic relationship, and Hate crime

Moderate: Misogyny, Murder, Violence, Alcohol, Child death, and Suicide

The behavior of these men is truly disgusting. I was happy to see that Wikipedia has them characterized as serial killers. That’s exactly what it was.

saroreen's review against another edition

emotional informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Violence, Toxic relationship, Racism, Suicide, and Murder

hanhantap's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Toxic relationship, Gun violence, Racism, Murder, Violence, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, and Torture

Moderate: Grief, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Terminal illness, and Addiction