Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Kleine Feuer überall by Celeste Ng

103 reviews

lilshorty's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

4.5

This book proved itself both heartwarming and heartbreaking but thoroughly engrossing nonetheless this books explores the intersections of parenthood, coming of age, class, culture, and race in a profound and challenging manner.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Infertility, and Abandonment

Moderate: Abortion, Miscarriage, and Abandonment

nucleardubs's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

I went into this book not expecting anything special; I had gotten it at a yard sale last summer, and had simply glanced over the premise. I was pleasantly surprised when I found that I not only enjoyed the writing, but the plot was genuinely incredible and all of the characters were so intricately thought out. I found myself voicing my own opinions on matters in the plot out loud because this book was full of passion and fire. ABSOLUTELY a suggested read! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment

Moderate: Abortion, Racism, and Xenophobia

Minor: Kidnapping

_fallinglight_'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Infertility, Medical content, and Abortion

Moderate: Classism, Cursing, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Ableism, and Abandonment

vaekay's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Classism, Drug use, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Grief, Emotional abuse, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Infertility, Abandonment, Alcohol, Stalking, Kidnapping, Medical content, Miscarriage, and Racism

Moderate: Cursing and Abortion

Minor: Cancer and Racial slurs

carlyg96's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

ksilvio's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Abortion

Minor: Car accident and Death

pheebabeeba_'s review against another edition

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

liz_h_140's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

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

hjb_128's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective 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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Content Warnings

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

julia_rose's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective tense 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

Decided to read this after loving the show and really enjoyed it. I’d be interested to see what my feelings would’ve been reading this without watching the show first as I constantly contrasted the differences between the two and I THINK the show was a BIT better and gave the characters more dimension. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Abandonment, Miscarriage, and Infertility

Moderate: Abortion, Medical trauma, and Grief

Minor: Racism and Cultural appropriation