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The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

11 reviews

cmrbwa's review against another edition

dark reflective tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Ableism, Emotional abuse, Racism, Racial slurs, Pedophilia, Rape, Pregnancy, Mental illness, Incest, and Child abuse

hapikohw's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-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

It was an honor to experience my first Toni Morrison novel through a public (virtual) reading done by all Black women authors, feminists and radicals.

Pecola Breedlove, there are many of you. Many failed. May we fail many others no more.

Toni Morrison, may you rest in peace and power. You completed everything you hoped to in your foreword.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Emotional abuse, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Body shaming, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Rape, Blood, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Grief, Hate crime, Pedophilia, Classism, Sexual assault, Abandonment, Incest, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Alcoholism, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Violence, Cursing, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Ableism

reflectiverambling_nalana's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad 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

Absolutely hard hitting look at the complex ways trauma changes self perception and in some turns not only self worth but behavior, how those things pass on, and how different people respond to this cascade. Utterly wrenching. Listened to in the author's own voice with followup commentary of inspirations and intent added another layer. Understandable why this has lasted and remains as prevalent today. Even being far out of the black experience myself, the experience of being changed and influenced by cultural and periodical ideals and standards is universally relatable on a broader level, as is fact that history will echo down through the generations. that our actions reverberate and effect others. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Death, Ableism, Sexual assault, Incest, and Rape

Moderate: Pedophilia, Domestic abuse, and Racism

Minor: Violence, Vomit, and Animal cruelty

lizcheyenne's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad 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

4.25

i hate men i hate men so much

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Racial slurs, Rape, Racism, Pedophilia, Domestic abuse, and Body shaming

Moderate: Abandonment, Child abuse, Death of parent, and Death

Minor: Ableism and Animal cruelty

briannasilveira's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Alcoholism, Racism, Child abuse, and Incest

Moderate: Pedophilia and Ableism

jessthanthree's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Incest, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Racism, Animal cruelty, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Classism, Racial slurs, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Sexual content

Minor: Ableism, Fire/Fire injury, and Infidelity

booksthoughtsandtea's review against another edition

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

I feel that it would be inappropriate for me to rate this below 5 stars. Content/trigger warning for racism, depression, anxiety, trauma, rape, murder, neglect, abanding children, incest, sexual assault, pedofillia, religious trauma, 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Religious bigotry, Racism, Medical trauma, Medical content, Infidelity, Infertility, Incest, Fire/Fire injury, Domestic abuse, Animal death, Child abuse, Bullying, Blood, Abandonment, Ableism, Vomit, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Alcoholism, Self harm, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Rape, Racial slurs, Pregnancy, Pedophilia, Miscarriage, Mental illness, and Gaslighting

omligda's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful informative sad tense

• 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? It's complicated

4.5

This was a stunning work of literature. Truly stunning, there were moments where my jaw was on the floor because I could hardly process what I was reading. Morrison’s work is awe-inspiring, bringing out a myriad of feelings. Empathy, pity, horror, shame, trauma. It took me a month to finish these 136 pages because it was so hard to bear, and that is why I must read more books like this one. These stories aren’t impossible and they shouldn’t be unknown. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Ableism, Body shaming, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Animal cruelty, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, and Rape

_fallinglight_'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad 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

4.0

I was going to initially leave this book without rating bc it overflowed me with soul crushing despair and anger and so much discomfort but I can't deny how well crafted this distressing book is and how Toni Morrison was a truly sublime writer. Can't add anything more insightful than this I feel terribly inadequate and uneducated right now. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Ableism, Alcoholism, Animal death, Classism, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Fatphobia

Minor: Miscarriage

michaelion's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

At first, I didn't get it. Then, I was starting to get it. Then, by the end, I thought I didn't get it. But apparently I got it the whole time, it's just that the time this book was written for is very different from the time of today. Things have changed a lot, but in many ways after reading this they haven't changed at all. I don't think I liked this book very much, but in some ways I did. I like Morrison's writing style and use of language. Something about it felt very familiar, very eerie, which made it unknown and familiar again. The things she wanted to say, to me, with the hindsight of 52 years in my 22 year old life, have been said again and again and I found myself asking "What was the point?" Which is never a good thing to have to ask. Not every book needs a lesson or a moral or a point. I know what the point was, I've seen it since I was as young as 3 years old, when my parents taught me black was beautiful and thus I never wished to be white, and I understood what race was, meant, and symbolized before I could write my own name down with a steady hand. I realize that the point was made 52 years ago when it was published, or 42 years ago, having been seen with the fresh eyes of a new decade, or even 32 years ago with the fresh eyes of a new generation. By the time I was born the book was probably just a memory of the shadow of an era. So now, personally, I don't like this book, but I do. I respect it. I'm sure had I been 22 when it was published in 1970 I would've loved this book. But again, things have changed and also things haven't. I see that it was important for the time, and it still kind of is, but now reading it I felt the sour feeling in my stomach I do reading and watching media from the decades that have come between then and now: it just felt like black trauma. Too much of it. I'm just tired. Been tired of it since before I was a teenager. Good book. Don't know if I would recommend it, but I certainly will reread.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Rape, Gaslighting, Incest, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Classism, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Miscarriage, Sexual content, Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Animal death, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Racism, Violence, and Xenophobia

Minor: Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Child death, Blood, Fatphobia, Abandonment, and Ableism