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The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

168 reviews

caromore's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Animal death and Animal cruelty

lockg6704's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

As always incredible writing and incredibly impactful and challenging 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Racism, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Incest, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

mysimas's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.0

 it shows this is morrison's debut - it has all the typical aspects of her writing (racial commentary, deeply flawed characters, achronological and poetic writing style), but comes off weaker and less impressive than her later works. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual assault, Racism, and Animal cruelty

cassafrass2273's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Really beautifully done but a very hard read 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Violence, and Alcoholism

avue's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Racial slurs, Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, and Incest

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death

thesixthstation's review against another edition

challenging dark 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Animal death, and Animal cruelty

doomluz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective 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

4.75

This is a heavy book. Morrison's writing was beautiful, this is such as strong debut. It's heartbreaking, but I like that she doesn't shy away from really dark topics.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Animal death, Child abuse, Incest, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Racism, Rape, Domestic abuse, Animal cruelty, Racial slurs, and Pedophilia

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

sierrathereader's review against another edition

dark emotional sad

3.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

welp_seeyalater's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.75

I loved this book. I only deducted 1/4 of a star because of a couple disturbing graphic descriptions that I thought were unnecessary and took away from my reading experience somewhat. Not a judgment of Morrison's writing so much as my preference. I still highly recommend this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Rape, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Racial slurs, Animal death, Domestic abuse, and Racism

Minor: Miscarriage

In spite of the content warnings I added to this I absolutely loved this book. Toni Morrison's writing in so beautiful; it also can be extremely sad and disturbing.