A review by kirsten0929
Beloved by Toni Morrison

5.0

[1987] (Nobel Prize winning author) I had been avoiding this for quite some time because I knew it would be hard to read, and it was, but now I am so glad I read it. The writing was beautiful on every level, the story was dense, no filler, but didn’t feel overstuffed. An intricately woven story, jumps a lot through time but was easy to follow and each character’s story was revealed as we needed to know it but not sooner. The characters are fully fleshed out, complex and human, each on his or her own journey. You can feel the emotion, the fear, the courage, the injustice, the joy, the rage, all of it. It’s exhausting (in a good way). Books like this are the reason I read.