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Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng

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ksilvio's review

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challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
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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hamstringy's review against another edition

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challenging emotional slow-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

4.25

Celeste Ng, for me, is an author who always, always sticks the landing of her books’ conclusions and themes. It was a bit of a slow start, and I wasn’t totally into the book the entire time, but Ng really follows through: there was a moment at the end of the book where I found myself thinking it’s about the choice!!!
Of course, at times this book feels a bit heavy-handed because I am living through much of what inspired this book, but at the same time it does feel particularly useful in the context of my own struggles with feeling extremely powerless with my country’s determination to be a shitshow.

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axel_p's review

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challenging dark emotional informative inspiring slow-paced

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

3.0

This should be an A24 movie

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bookedbymadeline's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

Immediately pulled in! I loved Ng’s two other books and she’s definitely an auto buy author now.

I did have to get used to the lack of quotation marks. I also found that the chapters could be a little long for my personal taste, but sometimes the story held my focus that they went by quickly. The story itself is Heartbreaking and inspiring! I loved the complex characters and getting to know them throughout the novel. I also loved Ng’s prose as always; there were plenty of lines I was struck by, reread, and wanted to highlight (but couldn’t because I read a library copy)!

Although the events of the book are fiction, there were a lot of parallels to what we have seen both in the past and the present. I highly recommend Our Missing Hearts if you enjoy dystopian novels, literary prose, and/or complex characters!

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yuyine's review against another edition

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emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

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

5.0

Formidable roman sur le racisme, les dérives autoritaires actuelles et la beauté du militantisme pacifique, Nos cœurs disparus est également un magnifique récit d’amour filial. Entre volonté pour lutter pour ses valeurs et nécessité de protéger les siens, le récit de Margaret est une histoire bouleversante qui porte en creux la volonté d’un monde plus juste, réenchanté par les histoires. Coup de cœur.

Critique complète sur yuyine.be (https://yuyine.be/review/book/nos-coeurs-disparus)!

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