Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Sula by Toni Morrison

55 reviews

aducharme4's review against another edition

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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Racism, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Terminal illness, and Forced institutionalization

calais_'s review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective sad medium-paced

• 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

4.5

PEACE (2024)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Alcoholism, Hate crime, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Racism, Death of parent, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Sexual content, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Alcohol

itslemony's review against another edition

challenging reflective fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death, Death, Rape, and Death of parent

tashtasher's review against another edition

emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Infidelity, Racism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Racial slurs, Grief, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Classism

kaanda's review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

Beautiful characters in a sadly realistic environment. Toni Morrison’s best.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicide, Medical content, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Misogyny, Sexism, Blood, Grief, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Colonisation

Minor: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Forced institutionalization, and Alcohol

rebeccaquinton's review against another edition

dark emotional funny medium-paced

• 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Infidelity, Racism, Sexual content, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and War

simareading's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Dementia, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

janainthebooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, and Classism

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Sexual content, and Forced institutionalization

jo_lzr's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad tense 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

The prose in this book is beautiful and describes even the most mundane experiences in a way that shows how multi-layered they are. I love Toni Morrison's use of metaphors as they were all so visual and so poetic. I like how this book shows human flaws and human behaviors and how one person's behavior can be affected by, but can  also affect an entire community.
  

Despite Sula's betrayal, I really liked how Sula decided to break out of the box. How she saw what the other women were raised to ignore, to consider normal. That she knew how miserable they ended up and what a cruel fate that was. And years later, Nel knew that what Sula had said was true. It was interesting, as well, to see the magical element surrounding Sula's existence.
The last scene, at the cemetery, was the perfect ending to this book and I don't think I could ever forget it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Body shaming, Child death, Death, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

alexcribbs's review against another edition

dark reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.0

I kept wondering what this book was about even as I was reading it and honestly I’m still not entirely sure, but that didn’t stop me from liking it. The writing sucked me right in, right away. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Death of parent