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Sula by Toni Morrison

8 reviews

jennswan's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Racism, Misogyny, Suicide, Violence, Sexual content, and Death

Moderate: Mental illness, Drug abuse, and War

brooke_jd's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Child death, and Misogyny

yliana's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

this book was amazing. i tried reading it in high school and a few chapters in, i gave up because i didn't understand what was going on T-T i genuinely think i was just too young at the time to read it because wow, it is so so good.

i don't know how to explain it but the way toni morrison weaves words together is jsut so beautiful. even during the worst, most painful scenes, her words brought a beauty to what was happening.

I can't say that i like sula as a character all that much. i found her lack of caring for nel when

she sleeps with nel's husband

to be the point where i stopped liking her. she just seemed to take no accountability but at the same time, let the woman have sexual freedom!! i don't agree with what she did in terms of nel and not necessarily her

sleeping with every husband in town, but it was stated that the wives also were having affairs and it takes two to fucking tango so the husbands were in the wrong too so i really can't be too mad at sula about that.

i actually really liked how we were given short backgrounds into other characters like shadrack. his story was so fucking heartbreaking, especially at the end of the book and i was really thinking he was gonna turn out to be the "villain of the story" ig and was not happy about that. i was happy, however, to see that he was allowed to just exist as a good guy that went through a lot of shit.

don't talk to me about Eva, though, i have a lot of feelings about her and they aren't positive.

my mom has loved toni morrison since she was in high school and i loved this book so i'm excited (also not though because I'm sure the rest of her books might be fairly depressing and sad too) to read all of her other books!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Misogyny, Abandonment, Child death, Death, Grief, Sexual content, and Suicide

Moderate: Racial slurs

h2bb's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Racism, Fire/Fire injury, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Suicide, Child death, Slavery, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Addiction, Abandonment, and Antisemitism

kirkspockreads's review

emotional reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Child death, and Racism

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Death, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, War, Physical abuse, Cursing, Misogyny, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Police brutality, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicide, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Child abuse, Murder, and Sexism

Minor: Rape

apollos_books's review against another edition

challenging 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

4.75

still digesting this one - this book has a lot of interesting thematic mediations on black communities, racial and gender injustices, friendship, historical events, and "good" and "evil." the book is, of course, well written and the dialogue, characterizations, and scenes are fully fleshed out. so, if nothing else, it was highly enjoyable to read! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Racism, and Misogyny

savvylit's review against another edition

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

4.0

Sula is undoubtedly a book about friendship. However, where the novel's strength really lies is in Morrison's unparalleled characterization. Each character, whether central to the story or briefly mentioned, feels palpably true to life. Though Sula and Nel are the focus, this book is ultimately a tragic portrait of an entire community.

Of course, Morrison's skill at character studies extends to the titular Sula herself. Despite the era in which Sula lives, she has no interest in marriage, family, or any other aspect of living a traditional woman's life. This makes her community at large distrustful of Sula and her intent. Such a character must have been especially groundbreaking when this book was first published in 1973. An independent woman eschewing rules in the 1930s? And a Black woman at that? Sula, flaws and all, is one-of-a-kind. Even in 2022, I won't soon forget Sula and her story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Infidelity, Murder, Racism, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, War, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Death of parent, and Child death

carajewels's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective 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

4.5

sula was so good, i would have read it in one sitting except it made me so upset that i had to keep putting it down ☹️ toni morrison’s writing is absolutely brilliant and keeps you en captured throughout the whole book, but the events of the book are so so tragic and the characters continue to shock you (not in a good way). i only give this book a 4.5 because it made me so emotionally distressed LMAO. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Misogyny, and Death

Moderate: Racism and Toxic relationship