Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

11 reviews

sophi_ereads's review against another edition

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challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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

5.0

So much love for this book

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samanthaleereads's review

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

3.0


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madelinequinnee's review against another edition

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emotional reflective sad fast-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

5.0

Wow, this was incredible. 

I think this book did a really good job of reflecting how a lot of people in this day and age think. There are a lot of Mrs Richardsons in this world, women who think they’re very open minded and ‘woke’ for lack of better word, but deep down have the same prejudices as openly racist or classist people. We hear how she supposedly believed everyone was equal, yet she had many opinions on Bebe and her situation that could be seen as microaggressions. She also white knighted herself when it first came to Pearl and Mia, how she thought renting the house out to ‘lesser fortunate’ people was her doing a big good deed for the world, and then basically forcing Mia to take the housekeeper job since she couldn’t see how working at the restaurant on minimum wage could be fulfilling to anyone. 

I personally found Lexie becoming one of my favourite characters by the end of the book. To begin with, she seemed like your typical shallow, rich teen girl who only cared about superficial things, but as we got to know her, we saw how smart and emotionally intelligent she was. Her abortion story was heartbreaking but one that mirrors a lot of young girls from her background own’s. We got to see her grow and become more understanding to other people’s situations after going through her own troubles, and I think that was really interesting. 

I think Moody is a good example of the ‘sensitive, art type’ who is really just an incel behind that act. The way he reacted when he thought Pearl was the one who had an abortion really showed his true colours. 

Overall i think this was a wonderful book! 

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lynssss's review

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

3.25

This story is an engrossing one that reads more like magical realism than contemporary fiction. I would best describe it as a modernized American fairy tale or folk legend. "What if your cleaning lady was the Virgin Mary?" If you will. While the cast of characters are diverse and the topics and themes the book touches on are interesting to dive into, at the end of the day it seems to answer these questions with moral platitudes and wrap it up with a pretty bow. I also thought it was odd that the book didn't really discuss how taboo mental illness was at that time despite alluding to it several times. Maybe in that sense it stayed very on theme by not mentioning it. At the end i did rush to finish it because I wanted to see how things would all turn out for everyone that we don't really get to know all that deeply but at the end you are left with an anticlimactic and somewhat vague ending. I don't feel that any of the characters did grow at the end of the book, or if they did, it's because they are magically converted to Mia-ism through their past contact with her and her quiet sermons she passes on to them. On the other hand I'm interested to look into the show and see if there is any differences in the adaptation. 3.25/5 stars.

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jamiejanae_6's review

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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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risemini's review

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

4.75

idk what to say abt this book bc it was kinda weird like its a weird genre imo like nothing happened but at the same time things did happen. anyways moody disappointed me so much i was rooting 4 him n he turned out to be misogynistic. but i did like this book omg

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endoved's review against another edition

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

4.25

At certain points, the message of the book is too on the nose. It felt like I was shoved into realizing what it is. As someone who is more into subtleties, it kinda threw me off. Apart from that, I do think Celeste Ng did such an awfully wonderful job in portraying the almost-stereotypical characters. Such a good way of delivering a social commentary on various issues.

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cerilouisereads's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful mysterious tense 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

5.0


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bibliocharylodis's review against another edition

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dark mysterious sad 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

4.5


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anne311's review against another edition

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challenging emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense slow-paced
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

"Um ehrlich zu sein, ich weiß es nicht. Aber sie wird es überleben. Manchmal denkt man, es geht nicht mehr weiter, und findet doch einen Weg." Mia suchte nach einer passenden Erklärung. "Es ist wie nach einem Präriefeuer. Vor einigen Jahren, als wir in Nebraska waren, hab ich mal eins gesehen. Man meint, das Ende der Welt zu sehen. Die Erde ist völlig versengt und schwarz, alles Grün ist verschwunden. Aber nach dem Brand ist der Boden fruchtbarer, und Neues kann wachsen."

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