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Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

66 reviews

pheebabeeba_'s review

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

jade_sanderson's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pregnancy, Infertility, Abortion, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Miscarriage

Minor: Kidnapping and Car accident

chaotic_bibliophile's review

lighthearted reflective medium-paced

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

4.25

Anger is fear's shield and prejudice its spear. Nuance is the way to traverse our greyed-out world as everything is complex, and nothing is simple. Even with context, there might not be a clear right or wrong answer.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Kidnapping, Grief, Miscarriage, and Abortion

Minor: Death and Car accident

cigarete_smoke's review

challenging emotional inspiring mysterious sad fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Abortion, Fire/Fire injury, Miscarriage, and Car accident

Moderate: Cultural appropriation, Abandonment, Toxic friendship, and Terminal illness

Minor: Classism, Rape, and Racism

jkamler's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Classism, Pregnancy, Child death, Car accident, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Cultural appropriation and Racism

madelinequinnee's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Infertility, Car accident, Grief, Abortion, Death, Medical content, Racism, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

lectricefeministe's review

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Infertility, Abortion, Classism, Kidnapping, Emotional abuse, Car accident, Sexual content, Death, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Cultural appropriation

kdailyreads's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Infertility, Death, Classism, Abandonment, Racism, Fire/Fire injury, Abortion, and Grief

Moderate: Xenophobia, Car accident, Sexual content, Kidnapping, and Bullying

Minor: Dementia, Vomit, Toxic friendship, Drug abuse, Cancer, Rape, and Blood

arayo's review

mysterious reflective slow-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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy

Moderate: Death, Sexual content, Abortion, Miscarriage, Infertility, and Classism

Minor: Cancer, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Terminal illness, Car accident, and Cultural appropriation

jeanettesreadingcorner's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

• this book is so intriguing and thought provoking! I spent any free time I had reading because I really couldn’t wait to find out what happened next. I devoured Little Fires Everywhere. 
• There are so many characters and inter woven storylines. It wasn’t hard to keep track and all of them were interesting. 
• I enjoyed how the author broached topics like motherhood, relationships, adoption, surrogacy, abortion, racism, and a seemingly utopian society. All of this while still keeping the characters and their stories engaging. 
• The metaphorical writing! Using elements of nature or just about anything to describe the emotions of the characters was wonderful to read. 
• It’s a little slow in the beginning but once you get to the know the characters and the plot picks up, it’s completely worth the wait. I’m so happy I grabbed this book from a Little Free Library! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Bullying, Death, Infertility, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Abandonment, and Miscarriage

Moderate: Car accident, Medical content, and Racism