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Little Fires Everywhere, by Celeste Ng

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abbruzzese's review against another edition

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

4.0

You’ll always be sad about this. But it doesn’t mean you made the wrong choice. It’s just something that you have to carry.

one of the cardinal rules of writing is that the first page—the first sentence, even—is supposed to hook your readers. this book did not do that, but i am so glad i stuck it out and kept going! this book is good! the plot is always moving & it was the perfect subway read because it was easy to pick up wherever i left off.

now, for the characters...

pearl & mia are perfect. i loved them. wouldn't change a thing.
lexie & izzy were okay characters, but it def felt like they were plot-movers if not their own people.
trip felt sooo forgotten as a character, would have loved to see him incorporated into the plot more.
mr. richardson was replaceable. he had one somewhat important role in the story and even then, it could have easily been written with anyone else & not changed a thing.
mrs. richardson made me want to break fucking necks. but i guess that means she was well-written?
and finally, moody...
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girl what the hell happened? he's a sweetheart, he disappears from the plot, and then he turns back up as an asshole? how does he go from <i>"he would crack dumb jokes and tell stories and dredge up bits of trivia, anything to make her smile"</i> to <i>"i thought you were smarter than the sluts who usually agree to do it with him. but i guess not.”</i> ??? celeste ng, please explain wtf you were trying to accomplish with this regressive development bc i am NOT having it. i could maybe understand moody's bitterness over pearl liking trip if the brotherly conflict arc had been explored <s>at all</s> a little more, but it wasn't, so this whole sibling jealousy thing comes out of fucking NOWHERE.

anyway, other than my nitpicky critiques of the characters, i enjoyed this book! i might have to take a peek at what else celeste ng has written.

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shlymiller's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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

4.0

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nadia_luq's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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

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erinwolf1997's review against another edition

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emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
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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lydiaie's review against another edition

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

4.75

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luananki's review against another edition

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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

way too many things i loved about little fires everywhere that i can’t put into words right now but one of the aspects i appreciated the most was that it is a book written with so many teenage characters in it where it wasn’t all about sex and alcohol.
also the writing!! and the characters and the topic itself made everything just so much more real and relatable and i loved it

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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

5.0

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aeriecircus's review against another edition

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

3.5

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mob333's review against another edition

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4.0

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midnightmarauder's review against another edition

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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

This is another book where I had watched the show/movie before reading the book itself, so, it took me a while to finish it, as I already know how things end.

The story revolves around a family in Shaker Heights, The Richardsons, whose lives are unknowingly shaken up after Mia and Pearl Warren arrive into town.

The Richardson matriarch, Elena, is a woman who has a white-savior complex, to say the very least. She's lived in the idyllic community of Shaker Heights her entire life, where racism is virtually non-existent and everyone gets along. She often feels as though it is her duty to keep things orderly and perfect, and to help those she sees as being in need.

This shows itself with the arrival of Mia Warren, a single black mother, who arrives with her daughter, Pearl. She allows Mia to stay in her rental property, seeing it as a "good deed" to the less fortunate.

As time goes on, Elena finds Mia's unwillingness to to talk about her past, threatening to her somehow, and

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uses her journalistic skills to dig up information on Mia's life

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Looking into Mia and her life leads her down a path of destruction, where she

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looks through the medical files of her old college roommate to get dirt to help a friend's custody case

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pretends to be writing a story about Mia's brother and drives all the way out to her old home in Pennsylvania, to find out all that she can about Mia, instead of just asking her

, and gaslighting and emotionally abusing her friends and even her own child, leading the child to

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burn down the family home in revenge

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I don't think I've ever hated a character so much. I hated her in the Hulu miniseries, and I hate her even more in this book. The book is a great read, but can be hard at times because of how vitriolic Elena is.

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