Reviews

Dust Child by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

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

dolphinlvr0920's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

seapenread's review

challenging emotional reflective 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

4.25

dawnurse's review

3.0

The mountains sing was so good so I had high hopes for this book. I didn’t enjoy it nearly as much.

gallagirlreads's review

challenging emotional informative reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

xereads's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative 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? It's complicated

5.0

I love history, fiction reads, anything based on true events so I’m glad I picked this as a read for book club. The author did a great job at telling the story of complex and diverse characters; from a mixed race homeless Vietnam male to a White veteran with PTSD the detailed storytelling was amazing. This book highlighted on relationships in so many ways and the treatment of some of the characters pulled on my heart strings heavily. I also appreciated the parallel descriptions of soldiers during the Vietnam war as I’m not as familiar with it but I’ll definitely do some research now. Absolutely recommend this read to others!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Minor: Bullying and Domestic abuse

lrcartee's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective 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? It's complicated

4.5

caitbop5's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

hanahe's review

adventurous emotional sad tense fast-paced

4.75