Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

212 reviews

joga's review against another edition

challenging reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, and Racism

Moderate: Sexism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Classism, Bullying, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, and Sexual assault

Minor: Mental illness, Racial slurs, Misogyny, and Pedophilia

emilosophy's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Animal death and Death

jana_abw's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-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? It's complicated

4.5

4.5
Such a sad story written so beautifully. 
I’ve never read a book with such poetic sentences. 

This book did feel a little disjointed at times but I think on a re-read would make much more sense. 

#2 book club read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Violence, Animal cruelty, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Classism, Racism, Sexual harassment, Animal death, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Grief, Sexual assault, Incest, Pregnancy, Rape, and Sexual content

Minor: Abandonment

ashlee_erin's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Sexual violence

lareading's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

The writing flows together very well and the story is easy to follow.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Incest

Minor: Racism and Racial slurs

mx_mistoffolees's review against another edition

5.0

Beautifully written, visceral and heart breaking. Also a Beautifully recorded audiobook.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Rape, Physical abuse, Incest, Child abuse, Racism, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Alcoholism, Sexual content, and Racial slurs

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Animal death, Vomit, and Miscarriage

cheuksin's review against another edition

5.0

This is by no means a light read.
Some parts invoked a similar  level of discomfort as when I read Lolita
Other parts more like the colour purple

Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe. There is no gift for the beloved. The lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glare of the lover’s inward eye.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Child abuse, Racism, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Rape, and Incest

Moderate: Sexism and Sexual harassment

Minor: Child death, Infidelity, and Death of parent

cadams93's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective slow-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? N/A

5.0

Beautiful. Haunting. Incredibly insightful Afterword as well. It’s a classic for a reason. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, Hate crime, Domestic abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, and Child abuse

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Mental illness, and Animal death

Minor: Miscarriage

peach0's review against another edition

dark reflective sad fast-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: Child abuse, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, and Incest

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Domestic abuse, Sexism, and Mental illness

hannanx's review against another edition

challenging dark sad

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.75

This book was beautifully written and so moving. It made me feel uncomfortable, it made me feel angry, it made me feel sad, but it made me FEEL, throughout the book, and I love books with substance that can do that. I felt like I really got an insight into 1940s Ohio and what these characters went through. It explored race, gender, class, and the injustices of it all. This book is frustratingly unfair and hauntingly sad. 

And there are some parts of this book that are just sick. These were far more uncomfortable and unpleasant to read, and although still gripping, I think a little too much for my sensibilities. I've never, for example, read anything

from a pedophiles point of view

, and I'm not so sure that I'd like to ever again.  I think these parts were too much for me. I do understand that this was most probably the author's intent and some may appreciate that she didn't water this story down. 

The story is told from different people's perspectives and just when you start to really understand and develop compassion for a character, they do something so vile that you question their humanity, and perhaps humanity in general. This book is the perfect embodiment of "hurt people hurt people" and is a damning indictment of the human condition.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Racism, Sexual violence, Bullying, Rape, and Sexual assault