Book Review #68: "Killers of the Flower Moon"

Hey Everyone,

     I am going to review the book "Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI" by David Grann. This book is hot off the press as it was published April 18, 2017 by Doubleday Books. David Grann is a best selling author and an award winning writer at "The New Yorker" magazine. He is the previous author of "The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon" which by the way is going to be made into a movie and is on my to-read list. He also wrote the book "The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession." For those of you who would like to purchase a copy of this book CLICK HERE. This book takes place during the Trail of Tears.  Hundreds of Native Americans were murdered for wealthy white people to get Native American's inheritance from the oil on their lands. It is also about the birth of the FBI.

     Overall I gave this book four out of five stars. This is a story that needed to be told so a big thank you to the author for writing this book. This era in history has been much erased from our history books and stories like this need to be told so we can learn from our mistakes. This book captured my attention from the beginning to the end. The only thing I wish the author did different was instead of saving the author's story and passion to this story until the end, I would have liked it to be intertwined within the whole story. Because the beginning of the book I did wonder where the author's ties to this story was and what made the author write this book. I am glad the author did put it in in the end.

     I would like to thank Netgalley, David Grann, and Doubleday Books for giving me the opportunity to read this book in exchange for an honest review. 

Until the next page,

Jill