Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Beloved by Toni Morrison

56 reviews

divyareads's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Racism, Emotional abuse, Slavery, and Death

jkull_10's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Murder, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Racial slurs, and Sexual harassment

mossgoblins's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Rape, Animal death, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Racism, Sexual violence, Cursing, Alcohol, Grief, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Slavery, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Murder, and Sexual assault

judewalkerstories's review

dark emotional reflective sad 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: Child death, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Grief, Violence, Slavery, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Rape, Death, and Racial slurs

ehunsy's review

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual content, and Child death

Moderate: Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Slavery, Grief, and Rape

meionco's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Child abuse, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Sexual violence and Slavery

madddiebear's review

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

notthatcosta's review

challenging dark emotional 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

3.75

I had read about Margaret Garner last year and it has stuck with me ever since. I was deeply moved by the ingenuity and vision it took to take that story and build a wider world around it that encompasses the horrors of slavery with themes of motherhood, family, shame, religion and community in a way that is tender and gut wrenching but also cathartic.

This book is difficult to rate because so much of my enjoyment of it stems from the lore around it and the inspiration, much of which comes from the forward of this edition. The book itself is of course excellent, but at times difficult to follow.

Although the more abstract passages and the tragedy of Beloved, Sethe and Denver as characters made it difficult to get through, this is a book that will remain with me for some time, I feel.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Racism, Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Slavery, Gore, Murder, Physical abuse, and Violence

thebristolreader's review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Pregnancy, Child death, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Trafficking, Violence, Colonisation, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Misogyny, Torture, Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, Grief, Sexual assault, and Slavery

evelina96's review

challenging dark medium-paced

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

3.0

This is a book I wanted to read for a long time but I have never gotten around to it. I have a few longtime reading goals, such as reading books by Nobel prize laureates. This book was harder to read than I had anticipated. It mostly depends on how brutal and raw it was and how Morrison wrote about slavery, and I didn't expect it. I'm not sure that I fully understand the book, but I still appreciated the reading experience. Beloved is also a book I will remember and probably think about long after reading it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Slavery, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse