Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

63 reviews

julia_rose's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective tense 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

4.25

Decided to read this after loving the show and really enjoyed it. I’d be interested to see what my feelings would’ve been reading this without watching the show first as I constantly contrasted the differences between the two and I THINK the show was a BIT better and gave the characters more dimension. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

Moderate: Grief, Medical trauma, and Abortion

Minor: Racism and Cultural appropriation

belleslibrary1012's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective 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 was super excited to read this book with my bookclub because it had been so widely read and recommended both in print and through the TV show. However, I was surprised when I almost gave up on it entirely; glad I pushed through. The beginning is tough and I had a hard time not only figuring out who everyone was, but honestly even caring. It doesn't grab you immediately; the writing lulls you in and holds you there until you are thrust forward at the right time. Once the first little push happens, the story, characters, plot, all of it convenes down a Rollercoaster style path until you're literally breathless, finding ways to flip the pages, to read faster, to know more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Racism, Xenophobia, Grief, and Abortion

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Kidnapping and Fire/Fire injury

sunflower7skull's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad tense 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

Beautiful book. I really enjoyed analyzing it and I definitely would look into more books by Celeste Ng in the future!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Miscarriage, Medical content, Grief, Abortion, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Classism

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Racism, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

Minor: Rape, Sexual content, and Toxic friendship

thesecretsapphic's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective fast-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Grief, Abortion, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Classism

sizzlesteaks's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Infertility, Miscarriage, Racism, Sexual content, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Abortion, and Pregnancy

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

londeen's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Abortion, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Racism, Sexism, and Grief

chaotic_bibliophile's review against another edition

lighthearted reflective medium-paced

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

4.25

Anger is fear's shield and prejudice its spear. Nuance is the way to traverse our greyed-out world as everything is complex, and nothing is simple. Even with context, there might not be a clear right or wrong answer.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Miscarriage, Kidnapping, Grief, and Abortion

Minor: Death and Car accident

schlady's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes

4.0

A well written and thought provoking story that explores topics of privilege, race, family, and motherhood. The setting was strikingly accurate even in its littlest details, myself having grown up around the same real places in the Cleveland area. The various characters and their stories are interesting & compelling while still easy to keep track of, written in a seemingly effortless way while taking a few unexpected turns. The ending wrapped up a tad too quickly for me, but overall another great book by Ng that I just couldn't put down.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy

Moderate: Infertility, Racism, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Grief, Abortion, and Classism

Minor: Bullying, Cancer, Child death, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Medical content, and Fire/Fire injury

madelinequinnee's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

Wow, this was incredible. 

I think this book did a really good job of reflecting how a lot of people in this day and age think. There are a lot of Mrs Richardsons in this world, women who think they’re very open minded and ‘woke’ for lack of better word, but deep down have the same prejudices as openly racist or classist people. We hear how she supposedly believed everyone was equal, yet she had many opinions on Bebe and her situation that could be seen as microaggressions. She also white knighted herself when it first came to Pearl and Mia, how she thought renting the house out to ‘lesser fortunate’ people was her doing a big good deed for the world, and then basically forcing Mia to take the housekeeper job since she couldn’t see how working at the restaurant on minimum wage could be fulfilling to anyone. 

I personally found Lexie becoming one of my favourite characters by the end of the book. To begin with, she seemed like your typical shallow, rich teen girl who only cared about superficial things, but as we got to know her, we saw how smart and emotionally intelligent she was. Her abortion story was heartbreaking but one that mirrors a lot of young girls from her background own’s. We got to see her grow and become more understanding to other people’s situations after going through her own troubles, and I think that was really interesting. 

I think Moody is a good example of the ‘sensitive, art type’ who is really just an incel behind that act. The way he reacted when he thought Pearl was the one who had an abortion really showed his true colours. 

Overall i think this was a wonderful book! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infertility, Mental illness, Racism, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Abortion, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Classism

zoe_archambault's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring lighthearted reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion

Moderate: Child abuse, Racism, Sexual content, Grief, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

Minor: Miscarriage