Reviews with content warning for Genocide - Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

A sad and fascinating telling of genocide in Oklahoma that doesn't get taught in schools.

As if displacing Indigenous people from their land wasn't bad enough, this book will open your eyes to some of the atrocities committed against Native Americans.

This book is so interesting and important. I'm usually a mystery reader and will admit that after I found out who "did it," I couldn't quite understand why there were so many more pages left to read. Hang in there until part three, which will blow your mind and bring the whole story full circle.

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informative sad slow-paced

3.5

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challenging dark informative mysterious sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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4.75

It’s a bit dry to start but by the time the narrative shifts to the actions of Tom White and his FBI team, I was hooked. Stranger and wilder story than fiction!

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5.0

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3.5

Killers of the Flower Moon is a thoroughly researched and disturbing glimpse into the grisly early 20th century conspiracy against the Osage Nation. The amount of greed and racial hatred among the non-indigenous residents of the Nation is astounding. And yet, at this point in my life, I find myself continuously unsurprised by portions of US history in which racist settlers commit genocide or hate crimes. Acknowledge it or not, that's the American legacy.

In writing Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann has put together a damning and enlightening true crime book. I was both horrified and riveted by the connections that Grann slowly reveals between each murder. I still can't believe just how deep the conspiracy ultimately went! That being said, I found Grann's writing style to be a bit too dry for my taste. This book is heavy on the details in a way that makes it difficult to digest all at once -- at least, that's how it felt to me.

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