Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

54 reviews

katiehuntington's review against another edition

mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Abortion, Grief, Infertility, Kidnapping, Abandonment, Classism, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Miscarriage, Death, Child death, and Car accident

jamiejanae_6's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pregnancy, Abandonment, Death, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Abortion, Racism, Sexual content, Cursing, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Grief, Kidnapping, and Infertility

lynchca's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Abortion, Racism, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Grief, Infertility, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Car accident

katalina's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Abortion, Cursing, Infertility, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Kidnapping, Grief, Sexual content, Abandonment, Classism, and Miscarriage

haleyd's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Medical trauma, Racism, Child death, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Grief, Infertility, Abandonment, Abortion, Classism, and Miscarriage

Minor: Kidnapping and Terminal illness

brookey8888's review against another edition

mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

I enjoyed reading this when I was reading it, but when I wasn’t I didn’t think about it or anything. I just felt like the the first 60% nothing happened and I was wondering what the point of this was. I did enjoy the characters, but I did keep getting some of them confused(mostly Lexie and Izzy). I did not like the ending tbh. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Abortion, Death, Child death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Infertility, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Racism, and Sexual content

alisonburnis's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

This is the perfect example of a book that did not live up to the hype for me. I found it very frustrating to read, to be quite honest: there was so much potential in this story, and the writing took away from it, as opposed to creating a stronger story. Ng’s framing and use of characters was clumsy in trying to draw us into the book, and it took me out of the story. 

The ending also felt rushed. There was a lot going on in the book, building up to the end - which we knew, from the beginning, was going to start with Izzy setting her family’s house on fire - but we dove very quickly into the end without much thought or foreshadowing to get there. Izzy was not meant to be a likeable character, she was a difficult one, but rather than challenging, she was distant. This pattern repeated, not necessarily with the same traits, but other characters suffered from similar lack of presentation versus intent. 

The story itself: good. High potential for interest. Perfectly perfect planned community frays over a case of a child who was left on a fire station step, taken in by a white family, and the birth mother, a poor immigrant who was suffering from postpartum depression, now wanted the baby back. Layered over that is the friendship of a new girl to town with an unconventional past, with a well-off, sheltered set of siblings. Could have worked for me! But the writing did not make it there. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Grief, and Abandonment

sarah_marie's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Fire/Fire injury, and Grief

jessicaa_'s review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Infertility, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Sexual content

book_sense's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Racial slurs, Racism, and Xenophobia