Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

110 reviews

vaykay's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-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: Bullying, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Miscarriage, Racism, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Classism

Moderate: Cursing and Abortion

Minor: Cancer and Racial slurs

carlyg96's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Classism

ksilvio's review against another edition

emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Abortion, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment

Minor: Death and Car accident

pheebabeeba_'s review against another edition

emotional reflective 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

The first half of the book I found a bit too slow to my liking, although I did enjoy the contrast of the two families, the Richardson’s and Mia and Pearl Warren. 

The main conflict; the case of Mirabelle/ May-Ling appeared close to the halfway point of the story. It introduced one of the main themes of the story: motherhood. 

The theme was very well written and thorough. Nothing about it felt black and white.  Admittedly, I didn’t care for a lot of the characters views on things,(the adoption, the surrogacy)but I understood them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infertility, Miscarriage, Xenophobia, Car accident, Abortion, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment

Moderate: Cancer, Misogyny, and Terminal illness

Minor: Sexual content, Vomit, and Alcohol

liz_h_140's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infertility, Miscarriage, Abortion, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Classism

hjb_128's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Abortion, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment

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

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

adriennegg's review against another edition

mysterious fast-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

4.5

This was my second book of Celeste Ng’s and I found it lighter, faster and more enjoyable than the other - Everything I Never Told You. It was a good read on the disparity between having the ideals of a better and speaking the right words but not working that through in practice. I was left wanting the world to be right for most of the characters, but of course, it never ends that way is it’s not a utopia. Worth reading if you’re up for something quick and light between other things.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion, Pregnancy, and Classism

Minor: Kidnapping and Abandonment

stillhouette's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

Moderate: Cancer and Racism