Reviews

Dust Child by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

karenks's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious sad fast-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

4.0

nictans_001's review

dark emotional reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.0

Bring British I didn't grow up learning about the Vietnam war and consequently never really heard of Amerasians it was really incuteful and a great read

phillysaurus's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.25

Really enjoyed this book. Beautiful writing, strong characters, and doesn't shy away from where the story leads. Loved the interplay of the Vietnamese language and its role in the communication between characters. Really liked that for such a dark book, things ended nicely (though I'm glad it wasn't too neat and unrealistic).

jenkilduff's review

emotional inspiring medium-paced

4.0

imalwayswrite's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad fast-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

lala_books's review

challenging emotional informative reflective 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

sian_hughes_jones's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.0

Spoiler for own notes

Madame butterfly, sisters got to city, become prostitutes, 1 falls in love/pregnant, American comes looking for her and finds she’s dead but her sister who is now rich meets him then goes on to find own son she gave up for adoption

aimzthereader's review

Just think its not the right time for me 

keithh's review

emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

4.0

xhallie25's review

emotional informative reflective sad 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

3.0