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4.08 AVERAGE
4.08 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The writing is absolutely beautiful. The themes and symbols are so engraved into the story and characters.
Diferentemente das ficções brasileiras (das que pelo menos conheço) Toni Morrison narra as dificuldades da escravidão, mas une o sobrenatural, o aterrorizador, talvez fantástico, criando uma aura de medo e terror. Em certos momentos fiquei confuso com o tempo da narração, já que voltava ao tempo da Doce Lar, outro com Baby Suggs, e outros. Um excelente romance de qualquer forma.
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
3.5 ⭐
I had high hope for this, but the confusion l had with the changing POV along with incomprehensible sentences almost put me in a reading slump. I had to drag myself through it cause the story was compelling but alas ..
I had high hope for this, but the confusion l had with the changing POV along with incomprehensible sentences almost put me in a reading slump. I had to drag myself through it cause the story was compelling but alas ..
challenging
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
gave me nightmares 😭
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Colonisation
When I was reading this, I kept thinking that it was good, but nothing that really made me sit up and take notice. Then I got to part 3, and okay, wow.
It's hard to categorise this book. I've shelved it as horror, as the whole basis of the plot is one you'd find in a horror story, but it doesn't fit there. The real horror of Beloved is not a ghost or ghoulie or any other supernatural happenings, but the very-human institution of slavery.
Technically, the book's a bit of a mess. There's no distinction between past/present in the book, so you suddenly flashback and then flash forward within a chapter without any cues. For three chapters, it's suddenly in first person perspective rather than the third. But it's incredible.
It's hard to categorise this book. I've shelved it as horror, as the whole basis of the plot is one you'd find in a horror story, but it doesn't fit there. The real horror of Beloved is not a ghost or ghoulie or any other supernatural happenings, but the very-human institution of slavery.
Technically, the book's a bit of a mess. There's no distinction between past/present in the book, so you suddenly flashback and then flash forward within a chapter without any cues. For three chapters, it's suddenly in first person perspective rather than the third. But it's incredible.
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
challenging
emotional
hopeful
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:
Yes
This is an important piece of literature and it is completely understandable and deserved that Toni Morrison is considered one of the greats of our time.
The story follows several runway slaves and how they struggle to carry the weight of their trauma as free men and women. Morrison writes with the extremity necessary to capture the true horrors of this time.
With that being said, Morrison's stream of consciousness writing style and shift between narratives from sentence-to-sentence left me utterly confused this entire novel. I had no idea what was happening/who saying or feeling what, which didn't allow me to connect to the characters or plot in the way I was hoping to. The prose is beautiful and almost lyrical, but the structure was just not my style.
The story follows several runway slaves and how they struggle to carry the weight of their trauma as free men and women. Morrison writes with the extremity necessary to capture the true horrors of this time.
With that being said, Morrison's stream of consciousness writing style and shift between narratives from sentence-to-sentence left me utterly confused this entire novel. I had no idea what was happening/who saying or feeling what, which didn't allow me to connect to the characters or plot in the way I was hoping to. The prose is beautiful and almost lyrical, but the structure was just not my style.
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix