Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

A Mercy by Toni Morrison

10 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

darlingkelly's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pregnancy, Death, Child death, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and Slavery

itiafurniture's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

4.5

Only Toni Morrison can present dark themes with such grace, and present whole characters that don’t abide stereotypes that often consume certain genres. The direction of the story was unexpected, and she weaves the relationships of characters so effortlessly into the story. I would have loved to know more about Lina, and Rebekka’s story felt heavy handed in comparison to the others, but the final chapter made up for that 10 fold. Definitely a great reread. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Sexual assault, Violence, and Slavery

aparizo704's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective 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

Moderate: Trafficking, Slavery, and Racism

Minor: Domestic abuse, Child death, and Sexual assault

daisydoolie's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious sad medium-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? Yes

4.25

A beautiful book, my first time reading Morrison and  her writing style is so unique. Hard to read in parts with the content but so evocative.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Abandonment, Violence, Trafficking, Colonisation, Racism, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, and Genocide

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

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

ella_hat's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Child death, Suicide attempt, Rape, Death, Pregnancy, Racism, Religious bigotry, Blood, Colonisation, Slavery, and Suicide

Minor: Body horror

paigeautum's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery

Moderate: Rape, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault

Minor: Homophobia

inthereads's review against another edition

adventurous 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

3.5

I really liked the idea of this book, in a way I think I am not smart enough to read it. The language is extremely poetic, and can be kind of confusing at times, I definitely had to reread over some parts, and I will probably reread this whole book again at some point. Also, I think it would be helpful to not stop and start when reading this book and probably only read this book and pause reading others while you are reading this, that way it can be a little easier to understand. all in all, i  think that this book is very moving and the language is gorgeous so I definitely think that makes the read worth it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery

Moderate: Racism, Rape, and Sexual assault