Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Kleine Feuer überall by Celeste Ng

87 reviews

alexklinect's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-paced

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

3.0

This book is character driven with a lot of long back stories and convoluted suburban drama. I think I would’ve liked it more if there had been more suspense, but I knew what was going to happen before it happened, which made the story a bit boring. I appreciated the themes of maternal love, plans vs passions, and race relations. But the book felt more like telling instead of showing, which wasn’t as engaging as it could have been. 
Content: a few concerns to be aware of, but none explicit or graphic. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Racism, Child death, Alcohol, Abortion, Cursing, and Drug use

helloitsemmy's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Abortion, and Infertility

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Car accident and Sexual content

_fallinglight_'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense 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? It's complicated

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Medical content, Abortion, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Ableism, Fire/Fire injury, Cursing, Classism, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Kidnapping, and Sexual content

vaekay's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Racism, Car accident, Classism, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Grief, Medical content, Xenophobia, Sexual content, and Stalking

Moderate: Cursing and Abortion

Minor: Cancer and Racial slurs

hannah_likes_to_read's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion

Moderate: Sexual content

pheebabeeba_'s review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.25

The first half of the book I found a bit too slow to my liking, although I did enjoy the contrast of the two families, the Richardson’s and Mia and Pearl Warren. 

The main conflict; the case of Mirabelle/ May-Ling appeared close to the halfway point of the story. It introduced one of the main themes of the story: motherhood. 

The theme was very well written and thorough. Nothing about it felt black and white.  Admittedly, I didn’t care for a lot of the characters views on things,(the adoption, the surrogacy)but I understood them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Fire/Fire injury, Infertility, Xenophobia, Abortion, Abandonment, Pregnancy, Car accident, and Death

Moderate: Misogyny, Terminal illness, and Cancer

Minor: Sexual content, Vomit, and Alcohol

sunflower7skull's review against another edition

challenging 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

5.0

Beautiful book. I really enjoyed analyzing it and I definitely would look into more books by Celeste Ng in the future!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Grief, Infertility, Abortion, Abandonment, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, and Miscarriage

Moderate: Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Pregnancy, and Racism

Minor: Toxic friendship, Rape, and Sexual content

megn9's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion

Minor: Sexual content

sizzlesteaks's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Infertility, Medical content, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Racism, Miscarriage, Grief, Kidnapping, and Abortion

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

leof555's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Sexual content and Abortion