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Little Fires Everywhere, by Celeste Ng

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bookdragonenby's review

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challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

I read this for my English class and thoroughly enjoyed reading it. The story is complex and at times difficult to follow, but overall this is a good story to get you thinking. I love seeing the different points of view and getting caught up in the drama of it is exilerating.
Spoiler The book doesn't have a happy ending it is merely a content ending. With Mrs. Richardson finally understanding that her perfect bubble has popped, leaving Izzy out on her own.

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regen20's review

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

2.5


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ayay_ron25's review

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

1.0

i hate this book, i read it for book club and it was such a slow and bothersome read. the characters are introduced as stereotypes which was already annoying but i thought maybe that the author was trying to make a point about how the town is obsessed with the law and following rules, NO 

ALL THE CHARACTERS ARE JUST ANNOYING TROPES THAT DONT GET BETTER!! 

the author tries to write character development but half of the characters (trip, izzy, moody, etc) don’t really matter in the book and are tied to important characters like mia or mrs richardson but they don’t change or are only used to progress others. 

i didn’t enjoy the personalities of the characters or the plot of the book, it was very bland even when the baby trial was happening. the best part of the book was mia’s childhood, but other than that i found it somewhat boring to read. 

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ibbyyyyy's review

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emotional 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

3.75

An excellent exploration of a self-declared perfect and “colorblind” community. Raised several questions about morality, ethics, and both planned and unplanned parenthood. The characters are complex and some are deeply lovable.

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lynssss's review

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

3.25

This story is an engrossing one that reads more like magical realism than contemporary fiction. I would best describe it as a modernized American fairy tale or folk legend. "What if your cleaning lady was the Virgin Mary?" If you will. While the cast of characters are diverse and the topics and themes the book touches on are interesting to dive into, at the end of the day it seems to answer these questions with moral platitudes and wrap it up with a pretty bow. I also thought it was odd that the book didn't really discuss how taboo mental illness was at that time despite alluding to it several times. Maybe in that sense it stayed very on theme by not mentioning it. At the end i did rush to finish it because I wanted to see how things would all turn out for everyone that we don't really get to know all that deeply but at the end you are left with an anticlimactic and somewhat vague ending. I don't feel that any of the characters did grow at the end of the book, or if they did, it's because they are magically converted to Mia-ism through their past contact with her and her quiet sermons she passes on to them. On the other hand I'm interested to look into the show and see if there is any differences in the adaptation. 3.25/5 stars.

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carolinacortez's review

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emotional reflective sad slow-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

3.0

otro libro con el que me tarde siglooooos, aino, pues esta meh la verdad, aun que no me quita las ganas de leer su primera novela (en parte por que ya la tengo lol), peor en general lo sentí muy lento había muchas partes en las uqe sentí que no pasaba nada, supongo que se podría decir que era desarrollo de personaje, pero no s ela manera en la que la autora lo hiso no me convenció, odie a muchos personajes, pero a Izzy la ADOREEEEE, nada más me quedaría ver la serie, maybe y es mejor que la novela. 

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wends_nblw's review

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challenging emotional reflective sad medium-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

4.25

i hate white people. /hj
im a little sad about the ending.
Spoileri mean, how did mrs. richardson react to lexie being the one who had an abortion? what happened to izzy? how did pearl leaving affect trip? how does this affect how the family operates?

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kkalicky94's review

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adventurous challenging emotional inspiring mysterious sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5


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gillbethkinder's review

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

3.5


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menglert's review

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emotional reflective 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

4.0

I really enjoyed this book for the most part. I loved the juxtaposition between types of families and the development of the younger characters as they began to gain new experiences. However, I was really expecting a good catharsis at the end, and I just didn't really get one. This book begins with (spoiler for the first ten pages)
Spoilera child missing while a house is discovered to be burning down
. A lot of emotional tension was built up through the story, and I wish we had heard more about the final thoughts of some of the characters. Some of the openness of the ending was much appreciated, but some threads were left a bit too loose for my taste.

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