Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

343 reviews

alexisgarcia's review against another edition

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexual harassment, Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Incest, Pregnancy, Body horror, Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Abandonment, Pedophilia, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Classism, Grief, Violence, Bullying, Racial slurs, Child abuse, Infidelity, and Sexual content

arieldz17's review

dark sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Child abuse, and Sexual violence

moonlitemuseum's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

This one hurt really bad. Take care reading it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Animal death, Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Body shaming, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Alcoholism, Pedophilia, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse

Psychosis, miscarriage

itsemilyshafer's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

Definitely not the best Toni Morrison book, but definitely an impressive debut.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Child abuse, and Sexual violence

meli3s3s's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Rape, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, and Incest

rugbykake's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Miscarriage, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Rape, Incest, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, and Violence

torihope98's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Racial slurs and Alcoholism

miscarriage

raindropxox's review against another edition

challenging dark sad medium-paced

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

5.0

This book was so well written. I loved the structure, written in seasons, and with the first paragraph coming through throughout the description of Pecola and her family. I loved that this book made me disgusted. So completely and utterly disgusted. The way Morrison wrote this story is horrifying and wonderful. She makes you feel completely uncomfortable and rips your heart and makes you feel such contempt for the world, but makes you want to do better. Toni Morrison has quickly become one of my favourite writers. Her writing is absolutely amazing here and this was her debut novel! I definitely recommend this book if you want to feel strongly and want to change the way you think about the world and yourself. But please note that the trigger warning list is probably longer than a giraffe’s leg!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Racism, and Incest

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Child death

taebae_xx'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault

tgij's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

The book does a lot of world-building and gives a lot of background for how the main character ended up in her current life. There were eye-opening passages. I reflected on how Pecola’s father’s upbringing impacted his parenting and how different his thinking was from how I would imagine going on to parent my children if I had the life he lived. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Rape, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Bullying, Racism, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis