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Fiona and Jane by Jean Chen Ho

23 reviews

leanne_miron's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Outing, Death of parent, Racism, Homophobia, Grief, and Suicide

Moderate: Biphobia, Toxic relationship, Child death, and Infidelity

collie98's review

dark emotional sad fast-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, and Suicide

Minor: Sexual assault, War, Racism, Physical abuse, Abortion, Addiction, Terminal illness, Self harm, and Grief

devynhinds's review

dark emotional tense slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Domestic abuse, Addiction, Cancer, Child death, Drug abuse, Racism, Abortion, War, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

maregred's review

challenging dark emotional reflective fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol and Outing

Moderate: Death of parent, Cancer, Abandonment, Physical abuse, and Racism

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, War, Vomit, Trafficking, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Drug use, Cursing, Abortion, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexual assault

stevie's review

emotional reflective slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Grief, Toxic relationship, Biphobia, Infidelity, Outing, Suicide, Cancer, Death of parent, Racism, Religious bigotry, and Suicidal thoughts

sydneybedell's review

emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Infidelity, Outing, Racism, Suicide, and Grief

Moderate: Drug use, Homophobia, Cancer, Alcohol, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Biphobia, and Sexual content

Minor: Abortion

meishallaneous's review

emotional reflective sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, and Infidelity

Minor: Child death, Fatphobia, Abortion, Biphobia, Pregnancy, Adult/minor relationship, Racism, and War

arireadsitall's review

challenging emotional hopeful sad 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

3.0

At its heart it’s a story about friends through their trials and tribulations. It’s not exactly a happy book and it’s not always positive but it’s really well written. You will hurt with these characters. You will cheer them on and you will miss them. Fiona and Jane made me want to go and hug my best friends!

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Content Warnings

Minor: Cancer, Racism, and Death of parent

literature_leona's review

sad slow-paced

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

1.0

It started off strong, but that didn’t last long. I wanted to love it, but couldn’t. There wasn’t much plot, the characters weren’t very interesting, and the points of view and timeline jumped around so frequently it was easy to get confused. I would have given up on it, but it was a buddy read. I hope whoever reads it loves it like I wanted to. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Racism, and Abortion

kathleencoughlin's review

fast-paced

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

2.25

For a book called Fiona and Jane, these characters almost never interacted. I thought certain elements of the book had a lot of potential, but the author really narrowed in on parts that seemed more mundane. For example, I'd have like to know more about how Fiona and Jane reunited in LA or more about Jane's relationship with her mom or how Fiona turned her romantic life around to go from divorcée to wife and mother. Instead, we hopped around their a stories in a way that felt rather disjointed. Maybe it was because several sections were previously published as short stories, but it just felt like half a story, like there was a chunk missing out of the middle. I also felt like Fiona and Jane's characterization was a bit inconsistant. Jane seemed more reserved but was also apparently the bad influence who convinced Fiona to steal several thousand dollars from a church? I guess, I was just disappointed

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia

Moderate: Racism, Child death, Vomit, Alcohol, and Suicide

Minor: Sexual assault

For a book called Fiona and Jane, these characters almost never interacted. I thought certain elements of the book had a lot of potential, but the author really narrowed in on parts that seemed more mundane. For example, I'd have like to know more about how Fiona and Jane reunited in LA or more about Jane's relationship with her mom or how Fiona turned her romantic life around to go from divorcée to wife and mother. Instead, we hopped around their a stories in a way that felt rather disjointed. Maybe it was because several sections were previously published as short stories, but it just felt like half a story, like there was a chunk missing out of the middle. I also felt like Fiona and Jane's characterization was a bit inconsistant. Jane seemed more reserved but was also apparently the bad influence who convinced Fiona to steal several thousand dollars from a church? I guess, I was just disappointed