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ellarobinson17's review

4.5
emotional reflective slow-paced
dark emotional hopeful informative 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: Complicated
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laylags's review

5.0
hopeful 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: Yes

Cried once. The characters that annoyed me at the beginning I came to either love or understand 5/5.

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ophirbun's review

3.5
challenging dark emotional 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: Yes
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cveezy12's review

4.0
dark emotional reflective 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
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sodasprout's review

3.0
challenging emotional informative tense fast-paced
challenging emotional reflective 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

This book. Book seems too small a word for what the words on these pages encompass. This story is heartbreaking, beautiful, and everything else. There are no real words, nothing impactful anyway to say about this book as all the impact is already on every single word on every single page of Purple Hibiscus.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Favourite quote

“God knows best,” I said. “God works in mysterious ways.”

“Of course God does. Look what He did to his faithful servant Job, even His own son. But have you ever wondered why? Why did He had to murder his own son so we would be saved? Why didn’t He just go ahead and save us?”


emotional sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated

starryeyedlover's review

4.0

Devastating