Reviews tagging 'Incest'

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

499 reviews

jessamyrenee's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Blood

Minor: Bullying and Violence

happybookday's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Pedophilia, and Sexual assault

jmatteo's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

Truly shocking that this is Morrison’s novel debut. An incredible work with prose that is unmatched in deliciousness, evocativeness, and incisiveness.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Classism

bookfriend8's review against another edition

dark sad fast-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

3.75

A devastating, reflective story. Love Toni Morrison’s style of writing, just wasn’t a big fan of the story’s structure

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Incest, Racism, and Rape

mirajuliee's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

5.0

Toni Morrison’s writing style is stunning — poetic and raw in the best way. But some parts were really tough to read, not because of the writing, but because they hit hard emotionally. That’s the point of this book though: it’s meant to challenge and confront you with the ugliness of external-turned-internal racism, classism and how societal standards influence self-worth.

This story will stick with me for a long time, as it forces the reader to reflect themselves in many ways. I had to reread the prologue (and the added note from Alice Hasters in the german edition) multiple times to really let the importance and significance of the book sink in.
If you’re planning to read this book, PLEASE make sure you READ THE TRIGGER WARNINGS before reading!!! 

(racial trauma, graphic sexual abuse, incest, animal killing, alcoholism, …)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Incest, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Grief, Sexual harassment, and Classism

do_good_books's review against another edition

emotional

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest and Rape

mangoh's review against another edition

challenging 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Racism, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Death

spac3core's review against another edition

5.0

this was such a hard book to read because no i DONOT want to know what the child molester was thinking while raping a child. j dont want to know his life story. i dont want to know how hard he had it. i dont want to know what disgusting things he collects. i dont want to know i dont i dont i dont. maybe the whole point of it went above my head but i have never felt such disgust and such pure rage at anything in my entire life. i read those parts SO FAST like reading two words and skipping the next 30 to see if its over. other than that, i love morrisons style of writing, it feels like a dream. feels like poetry. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Incest, Miscarriage, Racism, Rape, and Blood

orizenda's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

5.0

This was the first Toni Morrison book I ever read, in high school on my own, before I really had any idea who she even was. Re-reading this now with a much better understanding of how to analyze literature and stuff, this book means even more to me now. It made a huge impression on me before, but now I can appreciate the beauty of the language and how Morrison switches the narrative into the thoughts of the characters (of course i can’t remember the name of this rn tho) but the writing just blew me away for this being her first book. Also, the commentary about what is beautiful… it’s just heartbreaking to me that this book is still so relevant now, 50 years later.
If you like audiobooks, I think it’s definitely worth listening to Morrison read this one. I’m also partial to it because I love her speaking voice. I think i could listen to her all day long

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Incest, Pedophilia, Racism, and Rape

icvelx's review against another edition

challenging slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• 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: Child abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, and Rape