Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

142 reviews

samants's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

4.5

A heartbreaking story of generational trauma, racial self-loathing, and the destruction of societal beauty standards. Read this one quickly but will be thinking about it for a while. A hard read but an important one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Violence

sarahrosea's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense

• 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Violence

kemrick19's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Incest, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Pregnancy

giannaareneee's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.5

i really enjoyed this read in a weird way. i was hooked from the first few lines and needed to see the girls’ lives through the end. it is a reminder how internalized our feelings of racism and insecurity can be and how children, even when they are not heard, listen to each word we speak. toni morrison has written a line every black child can relate to in some sense. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Racism, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

grantelope's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

kvjrist's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

“All of our waste which we dumped on her and which she absorbed. And all of us——all who knew her——felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beautiful when we stood astride her ugliness. Her simplicity decorated us, her guilt sanctified is, her pain made us glow with health, her awkwardness made us think we had a sense of humor. Her inarticulateness made us believe we were eloquent. Her poverty kept us generous. Even her waking dreams we used——to silence our own nightmares. And she let us, thereby deserved our contempt. We honed our egos on her, padded our characters with her frailty, and yawned in the fantasy of our strength.” pg. 205


Emotional damage.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

seullywillikers'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? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

 Such beautiful language to express such horrific things. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Incest, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Classism

kathrynclaire's review against another edition

dark emotional sad

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Sexual content

sierrathereader's review against another edition

dark emotional sad

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

a1exander's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual content, Excrement, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism