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Beloved by Toni Morrison

38 reviews

aude's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Child death, Murder, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Mental illness, Slavery, Racism, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Animal cruelty

phou's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

4.75

!!!!!!! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery and Racism

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Sexual assault, Murder, Grief, Gore, and Child death

Minor: Toxic relationship

msg123211's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Child death, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Animal cruelty

laraamaee's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad tense

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

4.25

It’s a crime that this is my first proper Toni Morrison read. I’ve been wanting to read Beloved for years, having heard so much about it, but put it off because of the dark/heavy subject matter.

I finally got round to it by doing a buddy read, and after about 50 pages, I couldn’t put it down.

Morrison is a master of storytelling, of deftly weaving the webs of the past & present together to create an unchronological unfolding of horror. Beloved is haunting, violent, mysterious. The trauma of slavery bleeds through the entire book, which makes it very hard to swallow (especially as it’s based on the true story of Margaret Garner). But since America was basically founded on slavery…Morrison’s work is an essential read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Animal cruelty, Blood, and Child death

maddiet425's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Slavery, Animal cruelty, Physical abuse, Rape, Racism, Child death, Murder, Grief, Racial slurs, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, and Violence

wornpagesandendlesscoffey's review against another edition

While I am absolutely certain that this book is phenomenal, it is not one that I was able to get through unfortunately. I was aware going in that child loss was a theme, but I was wholly unprepared for the way that that seem would play out within pages of this book. I will absolutely try another of this authors books at a later date. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Racism, Blood, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Violence, Sexual violence, Animal cruelty, Child death, Death, Racial slurs, Incest, Murder, and Slavery

madddiebear's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Rape, Sexual content, Torture, Blood, Body horror, Self harm, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Classism, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Murder, Racism, Sexual violence, Animal cruelty, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Slavery, Violence, Child abuse, Child death, and Physical abuse

lynxpardinus's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Pregnancy, Racism, Sexual assault, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Death, Torture, Violence, Rape, Slavery, Confinement, Grief, Racial slurs, Sexual violence, Child death, and Medical content

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Fire/Fire injury, Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Self harm, Trafficking, Gun violence, War, Death of parent, Genocide, Child abuse, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Fatphobia, and Excrement

rachbake's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Violence, Abandonment, Death, Slavery, Child death, Animal cruelty, Grief, Murder, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

razorfangz's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense 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? Yes

4.5

Read this for class and really loved it. It's a very difficult read both due to the subject matter and how it's written, but very worth it if you can stomach it. The prose is beautiful and does a perfect job of being reflective and tense. Sethe is a very tragic protagonist and while the decisions she makes are horrifying, you fully understand how and why she came to be this way and know that at the end of the day she doesn't deserve it. Being vague of course, but read it for yourself. Again, if you can handle the subject matter, give it a chance.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual violence, Body horror, Death, Grief, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Slavery, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Death of parent, and Animal cruelty

This one is a Lot. It is upfront and brutal about its themes and can be very uncomfortable (which is the point).