Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

4.18 AVERAGE

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constanze75016's review

4.0
emotional tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
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easternstoic's review

5.0
painful. so fucking painful. i couldn't stop reading.

sturgisjk's review against another edition

3.5
challenging dark emotional reflective tense 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

bradleybur's review

4.0
adventurous emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
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cryptidreads_'s review

4.5
dark emotional 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

momodiary's review

4.5
challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring 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

sbiela's review

4.25
dark emotional reflective sad tense 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: Yes

zdrhyne's review

4.5
emotional reflective sad 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: Complicated
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elsadicriscienzo's review against another edition

4.25
emotional informative sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
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classcb's review

4.0
If you’re sensitive to sounds don’t do the audiobook. I personally enjoyed it but I know that there’s something that might bother people about the audio style in the Libby audiobook version.

I had no clue where this story would end. I was hooked the entire time, more so out of curiosity in the brother. I’m not sure what I took away from this story. Something dark but ultimately satisfying in a way? After listening to everything their father did, I just still couldn’t decide, it all was just sad. So many stories intertwined yet it was only from the fmc perspective. Interesting how the author did that. Some stories just exist for you to go back & think about.

This was one of those novels for me.