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ltux's review
3.0
The story is good. The imagery is good. The writing is difficult to follow at times and it wasn't until I was more than half way through that I felt I understood why I was reading the book... what outcome I was waiting for. It was often difficult to remember who the main women were to each other. Morrison is a beautiful writer, but I think on some level it's overdone. It reads like poetry instead of like a typical novel which made it hard to get into right away until I picked up on the cadence of her writing. It might be even more difficult for an average reader. It was beautiful... but I wonder if it could've been written in a more accessible way.
hopecaldwell's review
2.0
Morrison may be the most highly lauded writer that I don't like to read. Well, her and Hemingway.
johndiconsiglio's review against another edition
4.0
Morrison’s novels often have the spirit of a ghost story. In Love (2003), among her finer late works, the phantom is the gone-but-not-forgotten Bill Cosey (unfortunate name?), once the owner of a swanky Florida resort for Black people with a little cash & a lot of appetites. The hotel’s crumbling & the patriarch’s left behind a sinful past. A string of feuding women—wives, granddaughters, lovers—are cleaving each other’s throats in his wake. Morrison doing what she does best—riffing voices, years & passions. So fierce she shoulda called it Hate.
mrlivia's review
dark
emotional
hopeful
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
colorfulleo92's review
3.0
I'm not sure how to rate this book. Its well written and very engaging but not enjoyable at all. An old man married an 11 year old it's just so wrong and difficult to read on its own. It took me a long time to finish this book because I had a difficulty wanting to pick it back up even though its a rather short book.
cclift1114's review
4.0
An intriguing tale of how easily love and friendship can turn to hatred, especially under the power of a negative influence. And how simultaneously difficult and easy it can be to find that buried love again.
chanteld's review
5.0
Toni Morrison takes you on an exploration of passion -- dark and all consuming -- the complexity of love, on -- the complexity of love, friendship and all the characters are seeking love.
Once again she tells a heartbreaking tale of innocence corrupted.
The narrators, the primary voices of the nonlinear narrative are L, Heed the Night, Christine and Junior. Across three generations the Cosey women or Bill Cosey's women fight each other to gain in favour. Even in death is power to cloud their visions of each other and themselves remain.
The nonlinear narrative was at times difficult to follow. But soon it becomes very clear when Christine, Heed, L and Junior are speaking.
Once again she tells a heartbreaking tale of innocence corrupted.
The narrators, the primary voices of the nonlinear narrative are L, Heed the Night, Christine and Junior. Across three generations the Cosey women or Bill Cosey's women fight each other to gain in favour. Even in death is power to cloud their visions of each other and themselves remain.
The nonlinear narrative was at times difficult to follow. But soon it becomes very clear when Christine, Heed, L and Junior are speaking.