Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Sula by Toni Morrison

28 reviews

tianas_littalk's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Grief, Drug use, Emotional abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

yliana'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? Yes

4.5

this book was amazing. i tried reading it in high school and a few chapters in, i gave up because i didn't understand what was going on T-T i genuinely think i was just too young at the time to read it because wow, it is so so good.

i don't know how to explain it but the way toni morrison weaves words together is jsut so beautiful. even during the worst, most painful scenes, her words brought a beauty to what was happening.

I can't say that i like sula as a character all that much. i found her lack of caring for nel when

she sleeps with nel's husband

to be the point where i stopped liking her. she just seemed to take no accountability but at the same time, let the woman have sexual freedom!! i don't agree with what she did in terms of nel and not necessarily her

sleeping with every husband in town, but it was stated that the wives also were having affairs and it takes two to fucking tango so the husbands were in the wrong too so i really can't be too mad at sula about that.

i actually really liked how we were given short backgrounds into other characters like shadrack. his story was so fucking heartbreaking, especially at the end of the book and i was really thinking he was gonna turn out to be the "villain of the story" ig and was not happy about that. i was happy, however, to see that he was allowed to just exist as a good guy that went through a lot of shit.

don't talk to me about Eva, though, i have a lot of feelings about her and they aren't positive.

my mom has loved toni morrison since she was in high school and i loved this book so i'm excited (also not though because I'm sure the rest of her books might be fairly depressing and sad too) to read all of her other books!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Misogyny, Abandonment, Child death, Death, Grief, Sexual content, and Suicide

Moderate: Racial slurs

kirkspockreads's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Child death, and Racism

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Death, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, War, Physical abuse, Cursing, Misogyny, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Police brutality, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicide, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Child abuse, Murder, and Sexism

Minor: Rape

lynxpardinus's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Medical content, Sexual content, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Child death, Infidelity, Racial slurs, and Death

Moderate: Excrement, War, Confinement, Incest, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Sexual assault, Grief, Sexual harassment, and Toxic friendship

gkgkgk's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Grief, Death of parent, Alcoholism, and Child death

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Bullying

ellislilylovestoread's review against another edition

challenging dark sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Infidelity, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Dementia, and Grief

Moderate: Sexual content, Suicide, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Excrement

carajewels'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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

sula was so good, i would have read it in one sitting except it made me so upset that i had to keep putting it down ☹️ toni morrison’s writing is absolutely brilliant and keeps you en captured throughout the whole book, but the events of the book are so so tragic and the characters continue to shock you (not in a good way). i only give this book a 4.5 because it made me so emotionally distressed LMAO. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Misogyny, and Death

Moderate: Racism and Toxic relationship

jayisreading's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

I think this is a book I’m going to have to reread, only because I wasn’t in the right mindset to read it. Sula is short but packed with emotion and lyricism. Following the friendship of Sula and Nel over time, Morrison powerfully depicts the complexities of relationships and life circumstances through these two Black women. They’re incredibly messy and heavy things, and Morrison doesn’t shy away from the details. This is definitely not a book you want to read in one sitting.

I don’t have much else to say other than this: Morrison is incredible with words. Not a single word is wasted, and each one is used to craft beautiful and vivid sentences. Her gift for storytelling will never fail to amaze me.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Suicide, Racism, Racial slurs, and Alcoholism

Minor: War and Suicidal thoughts

readingsofaslinky's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Grief, Mental illness, Infidelity, and Medical trauma

alexandra_skl's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Violence, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Infidelity, and Murder