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Beloved: A Novel

Toni Morrison

4.08 AVERAGE

emotional 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

Like 4.5 actually. Would be 5 if I didn’t feel like I needed to put the book down to throw up.
challenging dark emotional reflective tense 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: Yes
dark mysterious tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Haunting and eerily strange. At time poetic, but very slow moving. Toni Morrison is definitely a poet with words.
challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-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: Complicated
medium-paced

The story of a woman named Sethe, 18 years after she escaped slavery, and after she was almost recaptured. The story is about the trauma and the ghosts that follow her and all the other characters.

Amazing book from a lot of standpoints, writing style, characters & the way they interact. Hard to read sometimes. The way I kept describing it to people was looming dread but not quite; more like whenever you picked it up to read it there was always something lurking in the corner not ont the horizon. I believe this is old enough to be considered a classic book, if so definitely one of my favorites. The writing is genuinely great and it needed to be to get through all the complexity that is people.
challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-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
adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes