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A review by cassidybone
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
sad
tense
medium-paced
4.0
Wow. It feels like such a move of national erasure that this story and knowledge of the Osage murders isn’t told in more history books and I’m glad this book (and now movie) has brought a new awareness to the story and the lives of these people. I can’t even fathom the experience of the Osage people and how horrific it all is and the greed and racism that spurred their terrible treatment.
The story is important and poignant and honestly just so tragic, but I hate to say, the writing of this book was sort of disjointed at times. I get it, and I’m not exactly sure how I would write it differently, but I found myself having to reread a lot and I still feel like I missed things. It might just be the nature of the story, but it was almost difficult to read at times.
The story is important and poignant and honestly just so tragic, but I hate to say, the writing of this book was sort of disjointed at times. I get it, and I’m not exactly sure how I would write it differently, but I found myself having to reread a lot and I still feel like I missed things. It might just be the nature of the story, but it was almost difficult to read at times.