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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
55 reviews
hanyaya's review
4.5
Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Colonisation
Moderate: Alcoholism, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship
cyberhavok's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Colonisation
Moderate: Death, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Child death and Death of parent
marcuslongoni's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Child death, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, and Colonisation
miggyfool's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
bookwormcat's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Toxic relationship, Blood, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Racial slurs, Car accident, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Colonisation
mattrose's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Death, Racism, Death of parent, and Murder
kbio's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Racism, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Colonisation
Minor: Child death
omair's review against another edition
4.0
After all of the hype and excitement I had for the film adaptation, I knew I had to read the source material as soon as possible. I had thought I would take to the book far more than the film, which I did thoroughly like, because I went into the film expecting more police procedural and less story of love
Yet as I read this book, I found myself agreeing more and more with the decisions the film made. This is not a slight against the book, but further praise for the film. The purposes of the film and the book are not one and the same, and so it is vital to anyone that, like me, is coming to read because/after the film to understand before they begin.
REVIEW THE BOOK INDEPENDENT OF THE FILM (which is what I intend to do)
Killers is as informative of a book as I could've imagined considering the personal story the primary focus is on. The book is overflowing with descriptors that will make you feel sorrow and anger, leave you wondering what humanity is and why it is missing. While only covering a handful of incidences, the cold factual presentation will leave you reeling, as if sensing how small a fraction the sample is compared to the population. All totaled, the official death count may
If you can make it through the pain and sadness, there is a beautiful story here of a people's survival. The heart to endure and rally is as much a light as the era is an inky darkness. The book may focus on Thomas White, his team of agents, and their investigation that finally tore down the veil behind which the atrocities hid, but the real heroes are the Osage people.
For as strong as the book is in its cold, clearly well-researched, tone, I also found this to be a slight undoing. The voice can feel rather impersonal at times, leaving the reader as a student of history rather than immersed in the moment. This is why I agree with the decisions made for the film adaptation. Maybe I would feel differently not having known the details from the film first, I can never know for sure. But the progression of the book, and some of the detours along the way, played loose with risking a reader to set the book down only to never return and finish.
Ultimately, I will recommend this read to anyone with an interest in the Reign of Terror, interest in the era, an interest in the realities of White American Exceptionalism, or a morbid curiosity of a casual genocide. Sticking through some of the uneven pacing is well worth it for the resulting reverence of the Osage, and Mollie in particular, all carrying inside of them something no man could ever kill.
Graphic: Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Racism, Violence, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Chronic illness, Confinement, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Toxic relationship, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation, Toxic friendship, Colonisation, and Classism
Minor: Addiction, Animal death, Child death, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Medical content, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Cultural appropriation, and Gaslighting
jmkendall0218's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Death, Racism, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder
beetree's review against another edition
4.5
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