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The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

41 reviews

amandas_bookshelf's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Violence, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Classism, Emotional abuse, Death, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Domestic abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

skudiklier's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

4.5

This book is heartbreaking, in a slow and unusual way. The writing is beautiful, and though it felt pretty slow for the first half, I'm glad I read it. I think I'd recommend waiting to read the foreword until after you've finished the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Sexual assault, Bullying, Pedophilia, Racism, Animal cruelty, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Sexism and Sexual content

Minor: Abortion and Ableism

Anti-Romani slur (g slur)

kry_yang's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.5

Not the type of book I would "recommend" to people--in the same way that this book is not "enjoyable" to read. But the stories and ideas in this novel, especially around the intersections of race, class, and gender, are so so important to read and understand. What a haunting and humbling world we live in, to be able to experience Morrison's language in The Bluest Eye.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Incest, Violence, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Sexism, Racism, Physical abuse, Miscarriage, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Classism, Excrement, Emotional abuse, Gore, and Grief

purple_converse's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Incest, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Violence

gjkennedy's review against another edition

dark 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

4.0

So incredibly difficult to read. Toni Morrison is a master of prose and laying characters uncomfortably and starkly bare. I firmly believe she is in a class all her own. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Hate crime

Minor: Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child death, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Excrement

despicablecow's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Rape, Racism, Racial slurs, Pedophilia, Incest, Emotional abuse, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcoholism, Cursing, Violence, Sexism, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

marthadude's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Mental illness and Abandonment

Minor: Excrement, Fatphobia, and Grief

Heavy warnings for incest, rape, pedophilia, and racism. Even though the book spoils this in the beginning

Pecola, an 11 year old girl, is raped and impregnated by her own father. The scene is fairly disturbing. It's not overly graphic but it is explicit and hard to read. Pecola is not only beaten by her mother because of this, but the townspeople look down on her despite being the victim. As a trauma response, she is driven to a sort of madness. The baby also doesn't make it.

. There is also a character who is a self confessed pedophile, but there are no explicit scenes between him and children.

emily_reads09's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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: Pedophilia, Rape, Domestic abuse, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Moderate: Miscarriage, Sexism, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Incest, Child abuse, Bullying, Alcoholism, and Adult/minor relationship

funmilayo's review against another edition

challenging 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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Medical content, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

recollections's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Incest, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, and Sexism