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Purple Hibiscus

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

4.18 AVERAGE

cherechi's review

5.0

challenging emotional hopeful sad tense fast-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: Yes

lilyk24's review

5.0

dark emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

readingforsurvival93's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 15%

It wasn't holding my attention, I think I'd have to read a physical copy

momuhney's review

3.75

dark emotional slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Wasn’t super aware of the strong religious themes. Got a bit fatigued by all of the religious references although I was aware of what they were talking about. The book really picked up at the end and had me much more intrigued than the first half of the book.

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magdalenamoon's review

5.0

dark 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

Content Warnings

lemonhoax's review

4.0

emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Pretty ironic with how religious the family is and how abusive their father is, doing everything in the name of god, and taking most things literally and out of context from the Bible. I found kambili's nature very surprising, throughout the whole book, she has a hard time admitting that her father is abusing her but when things get out of hand, her body makes that decision for her to stay away. And yet when her mother poisons her father, she can't seem to reconcile that at all, and is very angry. The book doesn't have a solid ending, but is left open to readers. It's a pretty realistic book in terms of father daughter relationship and also mother daughter relationship. A lot of things are unsaid between kambili and her mom.

lcg527's review against another edition

4.0

emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Content Warnings

mrginger42's review

3.75

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense slow-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

featheramber's review

4.5

dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Papa was giving psychological thriller, not Catholic dad. The way he cries after beating his kids? Unwell. Kambili’s growth was deep but heartbreaking. Jaja? King. The writing? Captivating. The trauma? Generational. The political context? Could’ve used more.

But honestly… the real villain? Colonialism.

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jjolynn's review

4.0

4.5 stars

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