Reviews - Il circolo della fortuna e della felicità

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Il circolo della fortuna e della felicità

Amy Tan

3.92 AVERAGE

kayylareads's review against another edition

4.25

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

kirsten_elise's review against another edition

4.0

emotional informative inspiring reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

sucy524's review against another edition

4.0

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

viridianpetal's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

3.5/4. Rounded down to 3.

The book was quite a hard, emotional and complex read for me, but totally worth it. The overarching theme of immigrant children having a hard time communicating and understanding their Asian mothers is powerful and heartbreaking. As a reader, you just can't help but feel sadness, anger and sympathy for every character.

Personally, since I'm not a child of immigrant parents, I feel like it's not my place to speak about how well the book portrays that part. But I can relate to just how difficult it is trying to find a common ground with my own mother, despite us speaking the same language.

The reason why I gave the book 3.5 stars, instead of 4 or more, is that I think the book lacks something. The fact that the book is about four women and their four mothers, and their connections was initially unclear to me. I got quite far into the book before I realized that I wasn't reading about just one person. And I take full blame for that. It's truly my fault. I went into the book completely blind. I think this book will definitely work even better for me on my second read, but I just need to give the story some time to settle, before I read it again.

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