Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

62 reviews

mattyvreads'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? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

An absolutely harrowing and hugely important piece of literature. Possibly the saddest book I have ever read.

Morrison’s words are pure poetry. The issues she discusses in this novel are still relevant today. Not just horrifying, but horrifyingly true.

Everyone should read this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Racial slurs, Rape, Racism, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Animal death, Pedophilia, Child abuse, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Misogyny, Mental illness, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, and Alcoholism

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

skylerreads28's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-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? Yes

3.5

It is so hard to describe and review this book because it is more than just a story about a little girl facing racism in America, it is about girlhood as a whole experience, poverty, inherited misogyny, and the accepting of one’s inevitable fate. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Misogyny, Body shaming, Sexual violence, and Pedophilia

maren_hemsath's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Incest, Racism, and Child abuse

Moderate: Racial slurs, Pregnancy, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Misogyny

Minor: Miscarriage

lisesenb's review against another edition

challenging reflective sad

• 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

Challenging but important

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Pedophilia, Racism, Violence, Child abuse, Racial slurs, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Body shaming, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Cursing, Death of parent, Grief, Incest, Classism, Mental illness, Colonisation, Excrement, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Death, and Pregnancy

bearsiies's review against another edition

challenging dark sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Misogyny, Body shaming, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Toxic friendship, Animal death, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Incest, Rape, Torture, Child abuse, Classism, Cursing, Fatphobia, Grief, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Animal cruelty, Child death, Gaslighting, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexism, Violence, and Toxic relationship

penofpossibilities's review against another edition

dark sad

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, Blood, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Incest, Racial slurs, Vomit, Animal cruelty, Grief, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racism, Sexual content, Rape, Colonisation, Confinement, Infidelity, Misogyny, Violence, Sexual violence, Addiction, Bullying, Death, Pedophilia, Alcoholism, Animal death, Fatphobia, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Religious bigotry and Slavery

Minor: Gun violence and Miscarriage

littlefish's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

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

4.0

Such a sad book. Great writing and concept. Especially liked the

hallucination / imaginary friend bit at the end

. But timeline and perspective were a bit confusing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Racism, Rape, Misogyny, and Pedophilia

mikarala's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

3.0

Well I'm glad I read it, but I can't say I enjoyed the experience. Morrison's prose is incredibly poignant and poetic, however this novel feels more like a series of vignettes than a true narrative, and the characters feel more like symbols than real people. Also, it served a purpose in the story, but the way bodily functions and sexual urges were described practically had me retching in real life. On one hand, that's really a credit to Morrison's writing that she was able to affect such a physical response, but also, it really contributed to how unpleasant parts of this novel were to read.

But again, that's kind of the point. This isn't supposed to be an easy read. It's horrifying, but it's meant to be because Morrison wants to depict how intergenerational trauma and internalized racism have affected the Black community. So for that reason, I found this hard to rate. In terms of getting its message across, I give this book 5 stars. But I just hated this experience of reading this so much (seriously, watch out for all the content warnings) that I can't really rate it higher.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Racism, Sexual assault, Incest, Abandonment, Animal death, Body shaming, Pedophilia, Mental illness, and Misogyny

Moderate: Suicide and Excrement