Reviews tagging 'Violence'

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

122 reviews

bravo_zulu's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? N/A
• 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, Violence, Grief, Sexual assault, Racism, and Rape

megselyane's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Racial slurs, and Racism

Moderate: Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual violence, Death, Rape, Violence, and Terminal illness

Minor: War

eilatan6991's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful sad tense 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Sexual content, Racism, and Slavery

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, Incest, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Rape, Death of parent, Death, Bullying, Addiction, Violence, and Infidelity

Minor: Murder

ladyfie's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Racism, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Violence, Body shaming, Sexual violence, Rape, and Misogyny

Minor: Pregnancy and Child death

adrianas's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Violence, Racial slurs, and Racism

boggnaver's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, and Pregnancy

Minor: Racism, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Incest, and Misogyny

nyckelpiga's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Child abuse, and Rape

Moderate: Racism

athenlyrain's review against another edition

challenging dark inspiring 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? It's complicated

5.0

This epistolary book is a hard read and deals with some dark stuff, but

it's worth it for the ending.

Much of the book is written in slang, which might make it harder for some readers, but it's not so heavily written in slang that it takes away from the character development or plot. This is an important story that is good for the soul and I would recommend it to almost anyone who is older than 18.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pedophilia, Sexual content, Grief, Rape, Racism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, and Physical abuse

Minor: Death, Death of parent, Slavery, and Infertility

welllovedspines's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense 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

4.0

TL;DR: This book is heart-breakingly beautiful. It wasn't anything like I expected - it was so much more. I only regret that it took me as long as it did to finally pick this book up and give it a read. 

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 Wow, I truly can't believe that this took me so long to finally get around to reading. In fact, I first started hearing about this book when I was in high school (well over a decade ago). I knew it was praised as a fantastic book that had been adapted into a movie with Oprah Winfrey and Whoopie Goldberg. I just figured I would get around to it someday. And I'm so glad that "someday" finally came. 

I don't really know what I expected from this book, but it definitely was not what I anticipated. And I mean that in the best way possible. The story is written as letters between sisters and prayers to God. These correspondences reveal the past and present of these women over decades of their lives. It is an intimate invitation to grow right along with them.

This work also took me on a roller coaster of emotions - from heartbreak and a desire to console the main character right off the bat, to pure elation with her growth and self-actualization as the book progressed. 

If you haven't gotten around to reading this book, please don't continue to put it off. I hope that you can wrap yourself in the authors words and appreciate this incredible work of modern literature. 

"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it." Just like this line that gives the novel it's name implies, don't let this book - this color purple - go unnoticed in your life.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Child abuse, and Rape

_sophahs_'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

NTS: pages 223, 224 and 230 need to be annotated 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Misogyny, Racism, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Violence, Sexual violence, Incest, Domestic abuse, Sexism, Pedophilia, and Rape

Moderate: Lesbophobia and Homophobia

Minor: Death