Reviews tagging 'Pedophilia'

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

664 reviews

marineotter's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Incest, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape

Moderate: Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia

Minor: Animal death, Blood

_mxxny's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book was tough, not because of the vocabulary but, because you’re forced to hear out the minds of the deeply disturbed. The prose and wording of even the most disturbing inner-monologue or thoughts or backstory is stunning. The narrative is nonlinear and forces you through many families and timelines. I won’t continue expanding because i’ll never be able to stop but this was my first introduction to Toni Morrison and I WILL be reading from her again. She is a once in a lifetime author and I highly recommend picking any of her work up. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Pedophilia, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Violence

Minor: Animal death

michad's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Wonderful author and writing. A horribly depressing story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Death, Hate crime, Incest, Mental illness, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, Classism

Minor: Slavery

b_reads15's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Child abuse, Pedophilia, Rape

verilyviridian's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Just gutting. A poetically-delivered story of deep-seated self-loathing in Black children and adults. Internalized racism and colorism; others showing little to no tenderness for the destruction of a little Black girl’s life. 

The callousness shown to Pecola in this book by all but Claudia and Frieda is so heartbreaking I almost can’t fathom it. Morrison gives you so many threads here, so many contextual insights into the characters’ displaced self-hatred. I’m thinking a lot about how Pecola shows tenderness to animals shortly before others show them cruelty.

This book was a lot to hold and I’m glad that I read it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Misogyny, Excrement

Minor: Vomit, Pregnancy

rosibook's review against another edition

4.25

dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Incest, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Excrement, Abandonment

biesterba's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape

chiimerical's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Alcohol

Minor: Bullying, Grief, Abandonment

sreed0427's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual violence

kaitkatsu's review against another edition

3.75

dark reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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im genuinely speechless

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment