Review: Love

Love by Toni Morrison
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Toni Morrison does not judge her characters, but leaves the reader to come to their own conclusion. In Morrison writing, sometimes it is what is not said that has a large impact. Reading Morrison work is like reading a song of poetry, while hearing a story.
However, I did not feel much love throughout the story, but it made me think how Love is abstract, almost like beauty; It is in the eyes of the beholder. In this case it is the heart. The ways that it is seen or expressed. Sometimes love can be kind, and sometimes destructive and mean, it's according to the person giving the love or the one receiving it.

Bill Cosey, the main character, was the man that could do no wrong in the eyes of the women in his life. Love was centered around Cosey, where their affection for him cause harsh feelings and animosity towards each other. It was alright for him to marry a child, a minor, but not alright for the child that she was his choice; It was her fault that he married her. Maybe because they felt she was given the love that they all so desired in some shape, form or fashion.

I believe this book is what feelings of Love can do to women and how women will tear each other down for the sake of a man and not holding him accountable for his actions. I believe these women forgot or just did not know how to love themselves.

Easy read and interesting. I could read this book again, because I believe that there may be points within the book that may give me more perspective of the women's afflictions that I missed in the first read.

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