A review by isareader
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

emotional lighthearted 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? It's complicated

4.75

Starts off as a story that you feel like you’ve heard/read before - a nice neighborhood has people who are a little different from their neighbors move in and shake things up, but this book transforms into so much more.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It’s not often that I find the telling of a story to capture so many complexities and intimacies of characters and issues as well as this story did for me. I thought this book introduced and tackled many of them quite exceptionally (A lot of times in TV shows, movies, or other books, I think, “There could have been more details about this” or “I didn’t like how this issue/conflict was brought up and then resolved without much discussion”, and I didn’t feel this way with this book!).

All of the characters remind me of someone I know or knew and the moral dilemmas they all face ring a painful truth of how difficult decisions don’t always have a clear right or wrong way to the answer. I especially loved Ng’s attention-to-detail writing style and the mystery of the story (and ending) that keep you hooked.  Minus .25 because I think chapters could be organized better with character anecdotes.
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