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Najbardziej niebieskie oko by Toni Morrison

96 reviews

wellreadjill_'s review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Miscarriage, Racism, and Mental illness

jlye's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

This book is hard for me to rate. On one hand, I love Toni Morrison’s writing. It’s beautiful and poetic. I felt a connection to the Pecola’s longing for blue eyes, because I wished for the same when I was a child. The inferiority complex resulting from tying beauty to western standards - blond hair, blue eyes, pale skin - resonated with me and my own struggles with self-esteem growing up in a white-dominated society. However, I cannot look past the characterization of Soaphead Church,

particularly the implication that his pedophilia was the result of being a closeted homosexual.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual content, Racism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Incest, and Homophobia

charley0796's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

A very dark reflection of the impact of racism and stereotypical beauty. 
The novel has a good plot but multiple, seemingly disjointed narrators which can make it hard to follow

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

sarina_klinst's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

This book broke me! 
But I beleave everybody should read IT...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Pregnancy, Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Racism, Classism, Cursing, Sexual content, Rape, Misogyny, Miscarriage, and Incest

samants's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

A heartbreaking story of generational trauma, racial self-loathing, and the destruction of societal beauty standards. Read this one quickly but will be thinking about it for a while. A hard read but an important one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Domestic abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Misogyny, Sexual content, Violence, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Animal death, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault

sarahrosea's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Sexual content, Racism, Rape, Violence, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, and Mental illness

kemrick19's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Incest, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, and Racial slurs

giannaareneee's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

i really enjoyed this read in a weird way. i was hooked from the first few lines and needed to see the girls’ lives through the end. it is a reminder how internalized our feelings of racism and insecurity can be and how children, even when they are not heard, listen to each word we speak. toni morrison has written a line every black child can relate to in some sense. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Sexual assault, and Racism

grantelope's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

kvjrist's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

“All of our waste which we dumped on her and which she absorbed. And all of us——all who knew her——felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beautiful when we stood astride her ugliness. Her simplicity decorated us, her guilt sanctified is, her pain made us glow with health, her awkwardness made us think we had a sense of humor. Her inarticulateness made us believe we were eloquent. Her poverty kept us generous. Even her waking dreams we used——to silence our own nightmares. And she let us, thereby deserved our contempt. We honed our egos on her, padded our characters with her frailty, and yawned in the fantasy of our strength.” pg. 205


Emotional damage.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Incest, Racism, Racial slurs, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, and Physical abuse