Reviews with content warning for Racial slurs - The Help

This book is an emotional roller coaster: heart warming, disturbing, funny in some parts, sad in others. It was a good historical fiction highlighting a brave group of women.

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taytayc23's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

I really liked this one. To be fair, I saw the movie first and it really did well sticking to the book. What I liked better about the book was the closer connection I felt with the characters. The overall story is a good one.

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peterparkerslabpartner's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

This book was very very good. Aibileen is such an incredible fictional character, her compassion and love for Mae Mobley and all the kids she raised is amazing I want to give her a hug. Minny made me laugh almost every time she was talking, but also she had a wonderful story. Skeeter is a a great character as well, also can you give me five minutes behind a barn with Hilly. I would love to punch her. Celia is so sweet, I liked her a lot. I think Stuart and Skeeter were a good couple, but he flipped out in the end and left sooo. Overall awesome book about life in southern states in the 50’s I would give it a 11 out of 10 if I could.

when Minny told the story of the pie, OH MY GOSH I was dead!!! That was hilarious. Hilly deserved every single bit of that.

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janetpollert's review against another edition

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challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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juliaathomsonnn's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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kamthereader's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

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edesia_guest's review against another edition

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informative reflective 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? It's complicated

2.0

I don't think Stockett did a good job on providing black women with a job. The main character Skeeter is annoying and I know she is there to show how white people are sheltered and don't understand the hardships of black people especially black women. I feel like she does a good job in looking at women and sexism but it's obvious the experiences are written by a white woman who does not know a whole lot about what happens and the misogynoir black women face everyday.

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rachael_jo's review against another edition

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emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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