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Mar 04, 2019
Melania 🍒
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I’m guessing my hopes were way too high when starting this book, so I ended up a bit disappointed. I can’t tell exactly what was the problem. The subject in itself was extremely interesting, the writing’s good, the investigative work was reliable. But still I couldn’t connect with the story as well as I wanted to.
Nevertheless,I’d recommend this book to anyone interested in true crime and history ,especially indigenous history.
I’m guessing my hopes were way too high when starting this book, so I ended up a bit disappointed. I can’t tell exactly what was the problem. The subject in itself was extremely interesting, the writing’s good, the investigative work was reliable. But still I couldn’t connect with the story as well as I wanted to.
Nevertheless,I’d recommend this book to anyone interested in true crime and history ,especially indigenous history.
This is such an important story and one I had no idea happened to this group of Native Americans. It is a sad, horrific account that normally would have evoked all types of emotions in me, but the writing just didn't get me there. It was annoyingly repetitive and I had to drag myself to finish it. Just way too much telling and not enough showing. It is an important story and I learned a lot, but I would have preferred a different format.
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Oof. This book reads like a best friend whispering the worries of another one of their friends at a midnight sleepover. It made me ask myself, "How couldn't I have known?". It's painful, but factual. It's history, but frightening how similar some of these narratives are to events continuing today. I think the scariest part was predicting what happened next, how the media covered the story, how the locals reacted, and how it's possible these stories were never taught in history classes. It's so e
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This book is about the Osage murders. Oil was found on the Osage land. They became beyond wealthy. A big conspiracy to take their wealth away from them came in to play. They were appointed guardians and then murdered. The book does a good job of trying to figure out the tangled web. It's very interesting and majorly tragic.
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Apr 24, 2023
Katharina Huang
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it was amazing
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The storytelling is impeccable and it's apparent the amount of research that went into writing it. The most perplexing thing to me is how such cruelty can come from a non-fiction book, but I find bits of solace in the fact that I have now become part of the ally who does not forget.
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Very interesting, a dark part of our history that I knew nothing about. It dragged a little for me and i felt it somewhat repetitive.
Jul 03, 2017
Arielle Vanessa
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