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A review by the_midnight_librarian
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
5.0
As weird is this is to say about a book about the horrors committed against the Osage, this was a really great book.
I listened to this on Audible and found it very enticing and interesting. Grann was able to weave resources together to produce a true crime mystery novel. I felt like I was being told a thrilling story that had twists and turns.
The narrators were great, I enjoyed their voices and the choice to put them in different sections of the book to get different perspectives. I thought it fit well with the timeline of events as well as the particular people that they followed through out the time frame.
This book had me ignoring my family to hear what more was going on in Osage County. Had me holding my breath waiting to hear the verdict of the jury and made my heard plummit as new evidence of continued murders surfaced, giving more light to an unjust and tragic period of history that everyone seems to think was a blip in US history but that the Osage are still healing from.
I enjoyed this book. But I'm heart broken that it is a book. Not that it shouldn't be, in fact I was thinking of actors who would be good in a movie adaptation. Spread the word and remember the Osage and US history and the corruption. But the fact that this even happened. The fact that this wasn't just someones creative mind. This happened. So many lives were affected and continue to be.
I listened to this on Audible and found it very enticing and interesting. Grann was able to weave resources together to produce a true crime mystery novel. I felt like I was being told a thrilling story that had twists and turns.
The narrators were great, I enjoyed their voices and the choice to put them in different sections of the book to get different perspectives. I thought it fit well with the timeline of events as well as the particular people that they followed through out the time frame.
This book had me ignoring my family to hear what more was going on in Osage County. Had me holding my breath waiting to hear the verdict of the jury and made my heard plummit as new evidence of continued murders surfaced, giving more light to an unjust and tragic period of history that everyone seems to think was a blip in US history but that the Osage are still healing from.
I enjoyed this book. But I'm heart broken that it is a book. Not that it shouldn't be, in fact I was thinking of actors who would be good in a movie adaptation. Spread the word and remember the Osage and US history and the corruption. But the fact that this even happened. The fact that this wasn't just someones creative mind. This happened. So many lives were affected and continue to be.