Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

A Mercy by Toni Morrison

4 reviews

adelita18's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.5

This was a challenging audiobook to follow. There are no traditional chapter divisions and the author/narrator, Ms. Morrison, read the story in a very quiet, monotone affect. It made it extremely difficult to place which character's perspective you were listening to at a given point in time and required a lot of skipping back to try to parse out the change in point of view. 

That being said, Ms. Morrison really dove head first into examining the roles/relationships religion, concepts and implementation of different types of slavery (bondage vs. indenture), cultural and racial biases, and various social mores in the early melting pot of 1680s colonial America affected people of all walks and ways of life. I'd like to go back and re-read this as a physical or Kindle edition because I felt like a lot of the plot was lost in trying to follow the audiobook. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Racism, Child abuse, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, and Child death

michaelion's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective fast-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

4.25

I read this on and off over 22 days because I went on vacation but it's Toni Morrison so of course it was amazing and I didn't lose the momentum in the gaps of days between reading chapters. Many thoughts many ideas... In my notes I marked this book is a lot more grounded in reality than magical realism. What's the difference? That's a great question... And at the end the world keeps going on. Ms Morrison, I know I said it before but you've done it again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, Murder, Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Pandemic/Epidemic, Child death, Slavery, Racism, Abandonment, Child abuse, and Colonisation

Moderate: Blood, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Grief, Sexual content, Genocide, Religious bigotry, Racial slurs, Injury/Injury detail, and Miscarriage

Minor: Rape

upnorth's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective 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: Abandonment, Child abuse, and Slavery

Moderate: Sexual assault

theromanticace's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective tense slow-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Violence, Grief, Child death, Miscarriage, Racism, Misogyny, Medical content, Abandonment, Colonisation, Death, Infertility, Slavery, and Trafficking

Moderate: Sexual assault and Violence

Minor: Rape, Pedophilia, and Torture