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Beloved by Toni Morrison

4 reviews

m1nature's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

A tough, but important read.
Intense and disturbing, but most of all full of truth.

It's not a book I would recommend to everyone, and it's not one I particularly enjoyed (although the writing was beautiful), but it's a story that made me think and consider how different decisions can be when life has been lived in a context that is so far flung from my own.

Thought provoking and moving and important.

Please make note of the trigger warnings before reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Trafficking, Torture, Sexual assault, Abandonment, Child abuse, Violence, Child death, Racism, Pregnancy, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Death, Vomit, Misogyny, Mental illness, Rape, Slavery, Physical abuse, Murder, Animal death, and Blood

viporras's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Death, Abandonment, Child abuse, Child death, Gun violence, Infertility, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Miscarriage, Blood, Confinement, Kidnapping, War, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Hate crime, Self harm, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Vomit, Alcoholism, Sexism, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Rape, Sexual content, Suicide, Violence, and Sexual harassment

ricksilva's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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

In a house outside if Cincinnati in the years following the Civil War, former slave Sethe and her daughter Denver live in isolation, sharing their space with the ghost of the child Sethe murdered when slave-catchers came for her.

The lasting effects of slavery are examined through this ghost story that brings the horrors past of life on a farm called Sweet Home into the haunted present. On a purely horror-story level, the returned Beloved is creepy in dozens of subtle ways, while the story is also operating on a symbolic level.

Morrison's mastery of language is also on full display, with brilliantly powerful phrasing and images.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Child death, Slavery, and Sexual assault

itslemoi's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Racism, Slavery, Vomit, Torture, Sexual violence, Racial slurs, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Emotional abuse, Death, Classism, Child abuse, Child death, and Blood