Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

196 reviews

mpittman0321's review

emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• 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

Moderate: Miscarriage, Abortion, and Pregnancy

miller8d's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Infertility, Miscarriage, Racism, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Abortion, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Classism

Moderate: Vomit and Toxic friendship

Minor: Rape, Self harm, and Violence

sophiestbr's review

emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility and Abortion

Moderate: Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Cultural appropriation

Minor: Kidnapping and Car accident

sundayfever's review

dark emotional reflective tense slow-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

4.5

I really enjoyed this book, although it stressed me out. The author does a great job of portraying privilege and putting the reader into the headspace of people who hurt others. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Classism

Moderate: Infertility, Miscarriage, Racism, Sexual content, and Kidnapping

mercerhanau's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Miscarriage, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Child death, Mental illness, Medical content, Grief, Abortion, and Pregnancy

Minor: Alcoholism, Bullying, Cancer, Death, Racism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Vomit, Stalking, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation, and Alcohol

elisabeth888's review

mysterious reflective medium-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

Amazingly written, delving into mother-daughter relationships and the mistakes and sacrifices that mothers make, both to help themselves and their daughters. Throughout the novel we see different paths to motherhood arise, both reluctant and enthusiastic, which cause us to question what motherhood truly is. Along the way Celeste Ng's novel lends itself to greater discussions about classism, racism, reproductive justice, and the concept of planned communities.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Classism

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

Minor: Cursing, Eating disorder, Sexual content, Abandonment, Alcohol, and War

marissasa's review

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This story delved right into the messiness and drama of motherhood for a few women in Ohio in the 90s, and followed their stories along with their children and family members. I really liked the juxtaposition of the typical WASP mom character in Elena against the artistic, transient, free-spirited single mom character in Mia. Their kids' behaviors and stories felt very true to the mothers they raised, and it was interesting to see from all of their perspectives in addition to the two mothers'. It was a bit slow in the first half of the book but it really picked up towards the end and I felt like the reveals made sense for the characters and I was invested in them at that point. I am definitely going to watch the tv show for this now that I have finished reading the book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Sexual content, Abortion, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Death, Car accident, and Pregnancy

ttorisaurus's review against another edition

challenging mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Sexual content, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Cancer, Death, and Kidnapping

koobone's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Racism, Xenophobia, Abortion, and Pregnancy

Minor: Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury

kbowles24's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-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

2.5

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Cursing, Death, Racism, Sexual content, Grief, Car accident, Cultural appropriation, and Alcohol