Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Sula by Toni Morrison

18 reviews

rml14's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective 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

4.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Child abuse, and Child death

Moderate: Ableism and Abandonment

Minor: War

amy_q13's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Child abuse, Racism, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Child death, Death, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Dementia, Excrement, Grief, Infidelity, Death of parent, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Suicide, Alcoholism, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Slavery and War

breanneporter's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

5.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child death, and Grief

snowiceblackfruit77's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense 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

5.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Death, Grief, War, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, Racism, Addiction, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Racial slurs, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, Abandonment, Animal death, Terminal illness, Forced institutionalization, and Infidelity

henrib11's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-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

4.75

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Death, Death of parent, Child death, Self harm, Fire/Fire injury, and Animal death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Xenophobia, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual content, Forced institutionalization, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, and Racism

Minor: Blood, Addiction, Excrement, Classism, War, Drug use, Slavery, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Body shaming

jkull_10's review

mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

4.0

---

Content Warnings

Minor: Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Racism, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Murder, Sexual content, Classism, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Violence, Abandonment, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, and Racial slurs

lilcoppertop's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Death of parent, Death, Terminal illness, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Murder, and Self harm

Moderate: Dementia, Excrement, Addiction, Blood, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, War, Grief, and Mental illness

logopolis's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective 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

5.0

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Abandonment, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Racial slurs and Racism

maregred's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, War, Racial slurs, Medical trauma, Abandonment, and Death

Minor: Toxic friendship and Racism

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!

---

Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Racial slurs