2.82k reviews for:

The Names

Florence Knapp

4.31 AVERAGE

suzannehines's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense 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

slovakqueen's review against another edition

3.5

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

suzanneh1's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

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This is my favourite book this year. Absolutely heartbreaking but such a well written book.  I read it in a day. I couldn’t put it down. Set initially in the 1980’s it follows a woman registering her son’s birth. It then comes back to the family every 7 years and looks at what might have happened to them had she chosen one of three names for him.  Such a clever and unique concept. It’s a book that will stay with me a long time. 

lbbrown574's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

emmajane66's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

nicolewillis's review against another edition

4.5

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

shmenke's review against another edition

4.5

emotional sad slow-paced

debappedu's review against another edition

3.75

dark hopeful sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

ruthperks's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

jberzy's review against another edition

4.25

emotional reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes